Just chiming in here to say thanks to all! Thanks to the thread here I finally solved my Skyrim crashing problem. I'm running a EVGA 780 GTX Hydro Copper with an overclocked i7-2600K processor, ASUS Z68 MB. I tried factory clocks on the CPS, fresh Windows installs, updated the video driver, removed Geforce Experience, installed old video drivers, ran as administrator, ran in compatibility mode, reinstalled Skyrim with no mods, nothing. I was going crazy. I could play Crysis, benchmark, anything else and the system was rock solid but Skyrim would crash within a few minutes. I found the solution for me based on reading through the threads. I found out it also had to do with the 2D mode/ 3D mode issue. I tried to fix it with Riva Tuner but was a little overwhelmed with all the options. So I went into the Nvidia settings, Manage 3D Settings - Global settings, and changed the following: Power Management Mode: change from Adaptive to Prefer Maximum Performance That's it! I'm not sure why it works but it did. On a side note, League of Legends crashed multiple times too which was leading me to believe a hardware issue was to blame somehow. The above fix worked for League as well. Thanks again! Stickman64
