Skyrim complete PC crashes

[scot]

This new patch did something to the game, I tried everything and I mean everything and nothing worked, my skyrim crashes after this new patch, I tried with and without mods, cleaned the save folder leaving only one savegame so I can resume the game and still crashes, used my backup exe for 1.3.00 patch still crashes even though it was working fine before.Uninstalled and after a painfull time trying to make steam re-installing the game from the DVD tried again and still crashed.My other games run fine, I built my computer to be a gaming device so no hardware problems, I just need to upgrade my RAM and my windows 7 to 64 bit but as I said before skyrim was working without crashes at all before the patch 1.3.10. The way I see it bethesda screwed my skyrim with the 4 gb patch thing that does nothing to me but crashing the game.

[whogoods]

This new patch did something to the game, I tried everything and I mean everything and nothing worked, my skyrim crashes after this new patch, I tried with and without mods, cleaned the save folder leaving only one savegame so I can resume the game and still crashes, used my backup exe for 1.3.00 patch still crashes even though it was working fine before.Uninstalled and after a painfull time trying to make steam re-installing the game from the DVD tried again and still crashed.My other games run fine, I built my computer to be a gaming device so no hardware problems, I just need to upgrade my RAM and my windows 7 to 64 bit but as I said before skyrim was working without crashes at all before the patch 1.3.10. The way I see it bethesda screwed my skyrim with the 4 gb patch thing that does nothing to me but crashing the game.

 

I hate to ask but have you tried running 3DMark11 or Heaven DX11 Benchmark ? If you can pass these on max settings repeatedly with no problem then you can pretty much rule out your GPU. For CPU I'd recommend you run blend tests with Prime95 if you haven't done so already to rule out Ram and CPU.

Edited January 5, 2012 by whogoods

[scot]

This new patch did something to the game, I tried everything and I mean everything and nothing worked, my skyrim crashes after this new patch, I tried with and without mods, cleaned the save folder leaving only one savegame so I can resume the game and still crashes, used my backup exe for 1.3.00 patch still crashes even though it was working fine before.Uninstalled and after a painfull time trying to make steam re-installing the game from the DVD tried again and still crashed.My other games run fine, I built my computer to be a gaming device so no hardware problems, I just need to upgrade my RAM and my windows 7 to 64 bit but as I said before skyrim was working without crashes at all before the patch 1.3.10. The way I see it bethesda screwed my skyrim with the 4 gb patch thing that does nothing to me but crashing the game.

 

I hate to ask but have you tried running 3DMark11 or Heaven DX11 Benchmark ? If you can pass these on max settings repeatedly with no problem then you can pretty much rule out your GPU. For CPU I'd recommend you run blend tests with Prime95 if you haven't done so already to rule out Ram and CPU.

 

No need, I can play other modern games on ultra, even arcania gothic 4 wich demands a little more than what I have and I can run it on ultra smoothly without crashes. I have a gtx 560 ti and 4 gb RAM. I´m planning to upgrade my RAM regardless of skyrim but I also need windows 64 bits and a new motherboard to add more RAM.My processor is an Intel core 2 quad cpu q6700 2.66GHZ (4cpu´s) 2.7ghz although I must admit the processors are the hardware that I don´t know what´s suppose to be good for gaming.

Edited January 5, 2012 by scot

[whogoods]

I played a bunch of games as well and thought my system was 100% stable. Including New Vegas with a large amount of hi res texture mods and never got a crash. I was surprised to see my system crash in similar fashion to Skyrim when trying to play Dead Island. If I were you just to rule out the possibilities I'd try some of the benchmark/stress test utilities I've mentioned. Before this no one could have told me that my system was unstable, :(

[scot]

I played a bunch of games as well and thought my system was 100% stable. Including New Vegas with a large amount of hi res texture mods and never got a crash. I was surprised to see my system crash in similar fashion to Skyrim when trying to play Dead Island. If I were you just to rule out the possibilities I'd try some of the benchmark/stress test utilities I've mentioned. Before this no one could have told me that my system was unstable, :(

 

I just finnished the tests out of curiosity and all is well, only the last two, the physics and he combined tests weren´t as smooth as the first ones but the score are all above avarage the graphic card is more than good XD to me it´s just the skyrim´s patch 1.3.10 that causes the crash, I could play skyrim for a day with no single crash and after this patch bam crashes every 10 minutes with or without mods.

Edited January 5, 2012 by scot

[whogoods]

I played a bunch of games as well and thought my system was 100% stable. Including New Vegas with a large amount of hi res texture mods and never got a crash. I was surprised to see my system crash in similar fashion to Skyrim when trying to play Dead Island. If I were you just to rule out the possibilities I'd try some of the benchmark/stress test utilities I've mentioned. Before this no one could have told me that my system was unstable, :(

 

I just finnished the tests out of curiosity and all is well, only the last two, the physics and he combined tests weren´t as smooth as the first ones but the score are all above avarage the graphic card is more than good XD to me it´s just the skyrim´s patch 1.3.10 that causes the crash, I could play skyrim for a day with no single crash and after this patch bam crashes every 10 minutes with or without mods.

 

You seem pretty set on it being 1.3.10 causing the issues and I'll respect that. I myself though re-installed the game and downgraded it to 1.2 and started a new game and was still experiencing crashes. If you're still up for it try Heaven DX11 Benchmark on max settings as well. 3DMark11 on 720P couldn't crash my system. It wasn't till I set it to 1080 which you can only do in paid version that I experienced crashing. It's normal for the last 2 tests to be a bit choppy, at that point the benchmark is stressing just your cpu and a combined test for cpu/gpu. Also, just cause you pass one run doesn't mean you are out of the woods. Try several. I could play Skyrim at times for hours before a crash and then at times 10 minutes at a time before one. Same applies with stress tests. If you'd like I'd be willing to test your game save on my system. PM me if you'd like.

Edited January 5, 2012 by whogoods

[Tom21]

This new patch did something to the game, I tried everything and I mean everything and nothing worked, my skyrim crashes after this new patch, I tried with and without mods, cleaned the save folder leaving only one savegame so I can resume the game and still crashes, used my backup exe for 1.3.00 patch still crashes even though it was working fine before.Uninstalled and after a painfull time trying to make steam re-installing the game from the DVD tried again and still crashed.My other games run fine, I built my computer to be a gaming device so no hardware problems, I just need to upgrade my RAM and my windows 7 to 64 bit but as I said before skyrim was working without crashes at all before the patch 1.3.10. The way I see it bethesda screwed my skyrim with the 4 gb patch thing that does nothing to me but crashing the game.

 

 

Same Here!!!!!!

[Thefireball]

Well, so far, i'm playing with no problems at all.

It doesn't even seem like there's anything wrong with the game for me!

All I did was upgrade from Windows XP 32-Bit to Windows Vista 32-Bit.

Working like a charm, except for Riften with all the fog slightly lagging me though..

'bout it.

But that should'nt be hard to fix.

Edited January 6, 2012 by Thefireball

[norbertrunner]

Hi, the issue that causing the Black Screen Crash is definitely in the quest system and it is corrupting your saved games as well. I have tested everything out from updates, quality settings and hardware but nothing nothing works. Whenever I finished a quest and went out to from a city, cave or anything, sometimes I got this BSC. So I have to shutdown my laptop and restart the game and reload it from an autosave, after I got back to the game it crashes again.

 

Solution for me is that I make a lots of saves manually and whenever BSC happens I just open the savegame that I have made earlier and after that I can play again for a very long time, from 6-24 hours.

 

I hope this helps out everyone until bethesda finds out the problem causing this issue.

[whogoods]

Hi, the issue that causing the Black Screen Crash is definitely in the quest system and it is corrupting your saved games as well. I have tested everything out from updates, quality settings and hardware but nothing nothing works. Whenever I finished a quest and went out to from a city, cave or anything, sometimes I got this BSC. So I have to shutdown my laptop and restart the game and reload it from an autosave, after I got back to the game it crashes again.

 

Solution for me is that I make a lots of saves manually and whenever BSC happens I just open the savegame that I have made earlier and after that I can play again for a very long time, from 6-24 hours.

 

I hope this helps out everyone until bethesda finds out the problem causing this issue.

 

How would that explain crashes that happen on fresh install of Skyrim with no game saves. I had completely re-installed Skyrim, removed all my old game saves, started a new game and still crashed within 15 minutes. Unless someone has ran memtest86+, prime95, linx, 3dmark11, heaven dx11 benchmarks/stress tests successfully then I'm pretty positive at this point after fixing my own issue that most of the users here are experiencing these system shutdowns due to system instability.