Kohdi Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 (edited) Hello all, So, I made the fateful mistake of trying to launch Skyrim without double-checking Steam was open, and so the default loading menu came up and automatically reset my graphics settings to "low" (I previously had things custom-tuned and turned all the way up, no problem. GTX660, 8GB ram, i5 2500k processor.). Now, when trying to start the game, I get a CTD before the menu finishes loading. I've gone through my skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini to try to replace all the settings this messed up, but so far nothing has helped. Are there known variables that are changed in these situations that might cause an instant crash like this? Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. Also, I should ask, is there any way to turn off this idiotic auto-settings feature so it won't happen again? EDIT - Apparently this also re-enabled several disabled mods in my load order, which was what was causing the crashes. That problem has been fixed now. Still, is there a way to turn off such an irresponsible feature? Edited July 13, 2014 by Kohdi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Garon Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Yeah, a DRM PITA. Two very compatible ways to stop this: 1. You can put a Steam shortcut in your Startup folder to have Steam fire up on boot, or select the similar option in Steam itself.2. I made a script to start Skyrim which checks for/starts the Steam client before calling skse_loader. Other ways exist, but may violate Steamworks DRM policy. For educational purposes only, try Googling for the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kohdi Posted July 13, 2014 Author Share Posted July 13, 2014 Ordinarily I do have Steam as a startup program, but I had manually closed it and forgotten. I may look into the script option though, thanks very much for the response! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Garon Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 <unabashed promotion>If you're into head-banging, frustration, error checking, and having to learn nano-details about Windows, try PowerShell. I used it so my script would also auto-click on the annoying Steam Offline "Are you sure?" dialog. (Couldn't figure out how to just send an event, Steam uses non-standard controls that I couldn't get PS to decipher.) A very powerful, if not user friendly, NET object-based scripting language. Can even run CIL based code snippets (C#, in my script case). Much under-used, IMHO. Meant for sys admins, PS can do just about anything needing doing on a modern Windows OS machine.</unabashed promotion> Your scenario was EXACTLY what drove me to automate the Steam check before launching Skyrim. After about the 400th time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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