CTDs (often during loading screen) - Who can help?

[joghurt5000]

@jojje5: I have 4gb VRam

Game does freeze instead of CTDs pretty often as well..

So here is what I have done these days:</p>
Deinstalled manually thousands of mods (ASIS, Quality World Map, High Res DLC Pack, Sneak Tools, UFO, ERSO, some kind of Daedra helm mod from step because TES showed me some kind of error trying to load it...)
Created bashed patch
Downloaded Sounds of Skyrim crash fix (I really had hope when I saw them ^_^)
Deactivated auto-saving
Deleting old save
Couple of other stuff I cant remember..
Reinstalling all mods
- Crying

So, I started a new game. I did not even get to finish the tutorial ONCE because game either freezes or ctds before. It often CTDs/Freezes when I´m in the torturers room (else the next fight).

And, yeah well. I think the game crashes pretty often when there is some kind of fight going on? I didnt crash/freeze a single time when running from the dragon. One CTD was when trying to enter Helgen Keep, rest inside of helgen keep (usually while some kind of fight is going on I think).

CTDs/freezes during loading screen actually didnt occur now. Ever. This game is random.</p>

Any suggestions what to try next?

Greetings


Big edit: Okay, like I said this game is RANDOM! I think I may just have made it stable.. I finished tutorial! Guys! This is amazing!

Ok, I deinstalled XCE Scars and Magic Duel Reborn as well now. It probably was one of these (if there won't be a crash in next couple of hours). I will keep you updated.


EDIT II: Ok, not funny. I installed ASIS and stuff again. Game crashed. I deinstalled that stuff again. Game crashed. When I try to enter Helgen Keep. Jesus.

 

Edit: Was able to play some time. Finished tutorial. Got till first mine near Riverwood, cleared it and crashed outside of it when trying to access inventory.

Edited May 28, 2013 by joghurt5000

[joghurt5000]

Any advice?

[nickrud]

Install Skyrim Performance Monitor and see if you're using over 3k system memory when you CTD. If you do, you can be almost assured that it's because your textures are too high res. It's not about video memory (I also have 4gb) but system memory. the Step forums have a perty good recent thread about this. I dropped from the 2k Skyrim HD and Skryim Realistic Overhaul to the 1K versions and went from consistent CTDs moving in and out of buildings or simply running around Solitude or Whiterun to nearly none. I'm using right around 2.9GB in Solitude now.

 

For infinite load screens, try removing the terrain manager stuff from skyrimprefs.ini. Another thread on step said that step's z-fighting fixes can sometimes cause this. I removed those lines from mine and the number of times I hung on a load screen went to nearly zero.

 

Finally, lotsa scripted mods? Not a clue if that's the problem and not the two above. I try to run only as few as possible of those cuz I don't have a clue on how to troubleshoot that :smile:

 

With those two adjustments and the last resolution I've gone from being This Close to quitting skyrim to a nearly trouble free game. I still crash now and again and have had a couple infinite loads in the last two weeks or so but it's like night and day.

[joghurt5000]

Thank you very much my friend! Gonna try that out, I guess capping at 3k memory could be an issue with the number of mods I have installed. Gonna come back to ya guys.

 

Really, again: Thank you all, I like people helping other people for nothing :) Shows goodwill! And thats what we lack in these times, ;D.

 

So long

[T113]

I didn't see if it's been mentioned but you can keep an eye on your current memory usage in-game with Elys Meminfo: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/2006/?

 

Hit scroll-lock to turn it on or off.

Requires SKSE.

 

Basically, tesv.exe is a 32-bit DX9 application.

What that means for mod users is:

 

1: It can only see a maximum of 4GB of total system ram, including the memory needed for Windows to run Skyrim. This leaves about 3GB of workspace, give or take a couple hundred MB.

 

2: DX9 'caches' some of the textures in system RAM, so big texture packs not only use texture memory on your video card, but also system ram.

 

I'd almost give the body part of your choice for a 64-Bit skyrim exe.