Sigurd44 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Due to my heaviliy modded Skyrim I rarely have some issues concerning CTDs on loading a save or encountering an infinite loading screen on loading a save. My issue is how to opt out of this infinite loading screen and shut down Skyrim by using the task manager. I use Win 8.1 and Classic Shell and whenever I encounter an infinite loading screen I am able to call the taskmanager by STRG + ALT + ENTF (CTRL + ALT + DEL), but I am not able to simply opt out to the task manager by TAB + ALT to click the Skyrim.exe process and shut it down. I am able to opt to the desktop and the opened taskmanager, but I am not able to click anything there. Whenever I click my mouse button to shut down Skyrim.exe in the taskmanager I am opting back to the infinite loading screen. The only method to get rid of the that at moment, is to fall back to the Win 8.1 logging screen and relog. This is an annoyence and therefore I am happy if anybody has a better method to get rid of that issue. This never happened under Win 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyam3 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I often had the same problem, had to manually turn the PC off at times, using win 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_69_327 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) This is an annoyence and therefore I am happy if anybody has a better method to get rid of that issue. This never happened under Win 7. Go back to Win 7.... :smile: Edited October 24, 2014 by camaro_69_327 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyacathusarullistad Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) This is an annoyence and therefore I am happy if anybody has a better method to get rid of that issue. This never happened under Win 7. Go back to Win 7.... :smile: Actually, Windows 8.1 is pretty fantastic if you have a touch screen or trackpad.Hit Shift 5 times. Windows will minimise the game so it can ask you if you want to activate Sticky Keys. Just click no, then you can open the task manager as normal. Edited October 24, 2014 by Hyacathusarullistad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigurd44 Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 This is an annoyence and therefore I am happy if anybody has a better method to get rid of that issue. This never happened under Win 7. Go back to Win 7.... :smile: Actually, Windows 8.1 is pretty fantastic if you have a touch screen or trackpad.Hit Shift 5 times. Windows will minimise the game so it can ask you if you want to activate Sticky Keys. Just click no, then you can open the task manager as normal. Thx for this, it works flawlessly...and I agree, besides the fact that Win 8 is created for touchscreens, it's as stable as Win 7 and is even better performance and boot speed wise. Microsoft's Win 10 will have full dual functionality from the beginning. My only question to Microsoft would be, why no dual functionality already for Win 8 ?...the big business is stuffing out companies, administrations and offices with desktop PCs, which won't ever have touch screens in the near future... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrahistan Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 For closing the game with the task manager i just tabbed out and saw my task bar so I could right klick, open task manager and mouse over the icon a sec then it should pop up a window preview so while task manager has focus you can tab up/down arrow keys to select skyrim (not readable but there is only one task with red text (if skyrim isn't responding)) and then hit delete to kill the task. And an easy fix for infinite loading screen for me was to install SKSE and use the memory fix (SKSE.ini). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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