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DOUBLE-CHECK THAT YOUR DESKTOP SOUND QUALITY IS SET TO THE DEFAULT OF 24 BIT/48KHZ. IF THIS DOESN'T FIX THE CRASHES THEN TRY THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU USE SKSE, DISABLE IT. IF YOU USE SCRIPT DRAGON, DELETE "DINPUT8.DLL" IN YOUR MAIN SKYRIM FOLDER. IF YOU USE ANY ENB SERIES TYPE OF MODS, DELETE "D3D9.DLL" IN YOUR MAIN SKYRIM FOLDER. NOW, DOES SKYRIM STILL CRASH? IF IT NO LONGER CRASHES, THEN UPDATE THE ABOVE MODS TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH SKYRIM V1.5.26.

When I first started playing Skyrim my shadows looked stripey like that. I fixed it by tweaking the shadow settings in my SkyrimPrefs.ini file. It was a long time ago, but I think I fixed it by increasing the "iShadowMode" setting to 3 or 4 (it was initially set to 2). You can also try setting "iShadowFilter" to 3 or 4.

CHANGE YOUR WINDOWS POWER PLAN FROM "BALANCED" TO "HIGH PERFORMANCE". ALSO DISABLE YOUR ANTI-VIRUS WHILE PLAYING.

Is that so? Look here: http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1352954-unofficial-creation-kit-modding-bug-list-3/ "The CK often crashes randomly, usually without reason (for example, while being idle or testing mods ingame)." "Duplicating existing music tracks or creating your own will cause the CK to crash on save."

@aarons6: I also get the "xaudio2_6.dll_unloaded" type of crash, randomly after browsing or editing the sound or music sections in the Creation Kit. It is a fault that occurs when the DirectX audio driver is unloaded from memory. My DirectX is up to date. I updated my sound card drivers last night, but I haven't tested to see if that fixes the problem. My sound card is a Realtek High Definition Audio type. Edit: updating sound card drivers made no difference. Edit: with version 1.5 this crash does not happen as frequently, but it still happens now and again.

I have a slightly different problem with the CK. I want to add a combat track that will only play when I attack a specific type of creature. In theory I should be able to do this simply by adding a custom condition to my music track. The problem I have is that if I make any change whatsoever to a music file's play "Conditions" settings, the CK will CTD as soon as i try to save my mod. For example, in the CK, select a music track (eg. Combat01) and click the Conditions tab. The default Combat01 track already has a condition set that it won't play if the player's combat target is a dragon. If you make any edit to this condition (such as changing the keyword argument from "dragon" to another creature type), or try to add a new condition, the CK will crash when you try to save the mod, and all the changes will be lost :( Edit: these bugs have been fixed in the latest CK :thumbsup:

I just can't customize music at all using the creation kit. The CK crashes EVERY TIME I try to save after making ANY changes whatsoever to music track playback conditions. To reproduce the crash: Start Creation Kit. Click the Open icon and select Skyrim.esm and Update.esm. Click OK. Audio->Music Track->right-click a track (eg. Combat01) and choose Edit. Click the Conditions tab. Edit an existing condition or create a new one (if you get an error warning here, click "Yes to All"). Click OK. Click the SAVE icon. Creation Kit will CRASH. I also get random crashes every 10 minutes or so whenever the xaudio dll gets unloaded from memory. I can't remember the exact error details but the faulting module is something like xaudio_2_6.dll_unloaded. It is a P.I.T.A! It seems to be something to do with DirectX, although it is up to date on my PC. Update: the CTD when saving after editing music tracks seems to be caused by the fact that whenever I load a mod in the CK the path to the music file is blank. If I click the Browse button and attach a .wav file and then edit the Conditions and then click save .... it doesn't crash. However if I close the CK and then restart it and reload that mod .... the file path to the .wav file has become blank again and the CK will crash on save UNLESS I first reassign a .wav file to EVERY MUSIC TRACK that is blank. The problem here of course is that if the actual music file is in one of the Skyrim BSA archives, then I can't just browse to the file (for example, any of the vanilla Combat tracks) and select it (and I don't necessarily want to have to extract all the music tracks from the archive, that is not practical for mod development). Edit: with version 1.5 I can now customize the music. I no longer get crashes on saving my mod. The music file does not become blank when I reload my mod :)

Thank you buddha!

Hi, I just uploaded a new mod on Skyrim Nexus, but the page is "topic locked" and nobody can post any comments. Please unlock. (discussion and comments are enabled in the options). http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9917 Thanks.