haljordan

I am another one of those guys who get complete PC crashes as soon as they open the map, as can be read in detail here: http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/481322-skyrim-freeze-when-opening-the-world-map/ and I noticed something really weird yesterday after I updated to the 11.11c drivers (cause it's supposed to fix crossfire for the HD 5xxx series) and I deleted all the .ini files to get a new "system check" when starting the launcher. After that I started the game and tried my luck so I opened the world map and for some reason it didn't crash my PC, in fact I was even able to see the map (including all the symbols as it should be). Well I was pulled back into reality after I tried closing the map by pressing "tab" and exactly the same symptoms occurred that normally happen when i try to open the world map. Also after I did a hard reset on my PC and started Skyrim again I was back to square one, since the problems occurred again when trying to OPEN the world map. PS: the "feature" with the world map is reproduce-able for me, as every time I delete all the .ini files I can open the map but not close it anymore. This happens only the first time I start Skyrim after deleting them. Otherwise it crashes on opening.

So I have been playing Skyrim for about 60 hours without a single crash/glitch or whatsoever, when suddenly at one point a graphical glitch occurred (black screen with white horizontal stripes) and my computer froze up. After I forcible shut down my PC I started Skyrim again and everything worked without problems until I tried to open the world map. If i try opening it the game usually freezes up with me seeing the map but no symbols on it (looks kinda shadowy, sound is still working for a few seconds). If I then press ctrl+alt+del in 70% of the cases I manage to open the task manager and kill TESV.exe before it locks up my computer. If that's the case I get a message from my graphics driver that it stopped working and has recovered. If I am not able to open the task manager the sound usually gets stuck and my PC freezes up completely. In some of my tries (maybe 1 out of 10 or 20) I got the afore mentioned glitch with the blackscreen and the stripes or just a blackscreen and one time I got a weird looking checkered screen (so just graphical screwups). If those happen the only thing I can do is forcible shutdown my computer and that's it. But as mentioned before this rarely happens. This really only happens if I try to open the world map. Every other menu and everything else (running around zoning fighting everything works). The funniest part is if I go into a cave or something like that and I press 'M' to open the map it works without any problem but if I press 'L' to switch to the world map the before mentioned things happen. So it definitely is only the world map. I tried reinstalling both the game and graphics device driver without any success. I also deleted all the .ini files, save games and so on to make it a "clean uninstall" as well as the registry fix. Additionally I tried downloading some map mods (like the full 3D map) without any change either. My GFX card is Radeon HD 5970. I already tried every possible setting in the game option as well as in the CCC and even disabling Crossfire without any success. Nothing seems to make sense seeing as it was running before for days without any hiccups whatsoever and suddenly it crashed and now I have a persisting unfixable problem with exactly one aspect of the game...