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How do you do this? Where to find this fu..ing file? How do you change it? I mean, now when I-ve damaged my hdd and must buy a new one (just when hdd's are expensive) I'm going to the end. If Skyrim damages my hdd again I'll sue the dragonborn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See Neverlight ( thats the persons name, sorry for not noticing, you my hero) Its the SkyrimPrefs.ini file Hope this helps, it helped me and im playing straight 5 6 hours and no crashes or freezes. i really dont think its a hardware problem but please note that this helped me and may or may not assist all users. // Neverlight, on 05 December 2011 - 09:25 PM, said: Finally since yesterdy i managed to play skyrim for 4 hours without a single hard reset or a ctd. First time after i installed the game i was able to play for around an hour, but the next day the game was completely broken for me. The longest time ingame was NEVER more than 5 minutes until i had to hard reset my pc (black screen) and the shortest time was 3 seconds. I guess i spent more than 15 hours in reading forumthreads and trying every hint i could get to solve my problem but to no avail since yesterday. BTW i was able to play Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and a lot of other games without a single crash so Skyrim was the first time i heard about the problems with this bethesda game engine. So i knewfor sure my hardware was ok. I tried EVERYTHING in correlation with this bug. Currently i'm running with these settings.... - Newest ATI drivers - d3d9.dll - enbdev - no mods (since i wasn't able to play the game more than 5 minutes i never tried one) - atiumdag.dll So far i was still crashing But then i found an article in a german magazine (PC Games) and i thought i have nothing to lose so i gave it a try: - First off in Options , i choose ULTRA and unmark fxaa and "fade out object details" (not sure if its the correct translation for this because i have the german version) - Now i opened SkyrimPrefs.ini (Under Documents -> MyGames -> Skyrim) and changed the following settings: - bMouseAcceleration=0 (change it to 0) - iBlurDeferredShadowMask=3 (change it to 1) - iShadowFilter=3 (change it to 4) - fShadowLODStartFade=200.0000 (change it to 1000.0000) - fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=0.0000 (change it to 10000000.0000) - fShadowLODStartFade=200.0000 (change it to 1000.0000) - bTreesReceiveShadows=0 (change it to 1) - uiMaxSkinnedTreesToRender=20 (change it to 40) - iWaterMultiSamples=0 (change it to 4) - iWaterReflectHeight=512 (change it to 1024) - iWaterReflectWidth=512 (change it to 1024) And now i added the following lines at the and of SkyrimPrefs.ini: - bUseWaterReflectionBlur=1 - bReflectExplosions=1 - iWaterBlurAmount=4 - bAutoWaterSilhouetteReflections=0 - bForceHighDetailreflections=1 Don't know what exactly made my game run but before i find out , i will finally enjoy skyrim now first. BTW i have a core2duo 2.66 GHz, WIN 7 64bit, 4 GB RAM and an ATI 5770 graphics card, but Skyrim runs like a charm with these settings. Thanks for all the help guys....and shame on you Bethesda , to let us alone for this long time after the release of the game, without being able to play the game. Only help i had was the community.... // Hope it helps buddy Cheers Kimeshin

Hi Guys Found the FIX ( Please note that this worked for me and may not worked for all people) Specs: AMD Athlone X2 = 2.8Ghz 2 Gigs RAM nVidia GeForce 9500 GT - 512MB Windows XP SP3 I noticed that ALL of you guys have better computers than me, I just meet the minimum requirements for the game. But when I installed it and ran it for the first time, it was epic and even with my miserable specs I had no problems and watched the beginning part and customized my character and made it all the way through the cave to black screen crash on my way to Riverwood. I then realized that if my computer and my little nVidia 9500 GT 512MB could handle all that graphical data from the beginning of the game and still get through the first part, whats stopping it from playing perfectly throughout the entire game. So I payed it a second time and I got to the part where I received the Whiterun Axe, and then again black screen crash (pisses me off) I then did some research, and I found that all of you guys where experiencing more or less the same symptoms, so i thought its weird that guys/girls with dream machine specs and myself with 2008 specs are getting the same problems. Therefore I ruled out hardware as the source. I noticed that with the UK pack that I bought (only one available in South Africa), that there where some files missing and/or labeled differently than that of the US released pack. Heres where the error is: fTreesMidLODSwitchDist= 1e.007 the game cannot interpret this and crashes! You can change it too: fTreesMidLODSwitchDist= 10000000.0000 The post that a previous person left helped me, he/she is called nightlight or night time and they got the correct parameters of the game from a German source - BTW thank you so much to this person, you just made me enjoy my R350.00 game, which is about $30. For those of us that do not know what this file does, it returns parameters to the game so that (a) the load up time is reduced from hours to mere seconds, (b) user specific specs are mounted in the game at ALL save points and © throughout the game parameters are equal, meaning that all trees that are the same remain the same, shadows of identical items are the same etc. This file can only return integers, i.e numbers, but integers get too long, certain programming software returns a shortened version for syntax relief. like calculators when you get that "e" thingy I recommend taking this persons directions and changing the parameters. My game on my 2008 spec machine runs like a dream. No need to lower anything or change hardware and I got 6 hours of game play yesterday, killed 3 dragons, joined the werewolf clan and got an AWESOME sword and I checked this morning, I played for 2 hours and same great results, so there is hope guys. Hope I have helped you all as you have helped me. Cheers Me I support 9gag