Skyrim complete PC crashes

[BarderothReturns]

I have a feeling its just script failures to time to time, sometimes it crashes on me when it someone starts talking or at a certain point in a quest. I could be a simple as that. i dont get complete crashes, it just exits out once in awhile. Nothing serious.

 

If it's not a complete system crash, you're in the wrong place. This is what you're looking for:

Here

Edited November 18, 2011 by BarderothReturns

[Pineapplerum]

I went searching online how I should have my audio codecs set up. I found a webpage where the guy had it suggested how it should be set up. He had pictures of it and everything. For the life of me I cannot find that webpage again.

I did everything he said to do except I set it to 16 bits, I think, instead of 24 bits because I remember reading somewhere the 16bits was better.

Anyway, after changing everything on my codecs audio settings to the way the guy had it, I have not crashed once to desktop. And I've been playing for hours.

I'll keep looking for that webpage to give you the link. But it's made a major difference in game play.

[legendzawk]

I went searching online how I should have my audio codecs set up. I found a webpage where the guy had it suggested how it should be set up. He had pictures of it and everything. For the life of me I cannot find that webpage again.

I did everything he said to do except I set it to 16 bits, I think, instead of 24 bits because I remember reading somewhere the 16bits was better.

Anyway, after changing everything on my codecs audio settings to the way the guy had it, I have not crashed once to desktop. And I've been playing for hours.

I'll keep looking for that webpage to give you the link. But it's made a major difference in game play.

Well that's different. You're only crashing to desktop. Most of us here are getting our whole PC's crashed.

[ForTheBrotherhood]

My problem is that only 1 of my saved games, of course it had to be the one I enjoyed the most, always crashes when I try to load it. I don't have any mods or anything like that so I have no idea why it's doing this. Anyone know?

 

no if you have that option available in windows try that, it worked for me and a few other people, if you have to use throttlestop then use it. if it works for you then we may have a fix on our hands :dance:

 

 

So how do I fix it?

[DanRocco]

Here's something interesting...

 

I underclocked using throttlestop again. This time a little lower than before, but I don't think it even matters. As an experiment, I thought I'd try standing in place without touching any controls. I just loaded the game and let it sit there for a while.

 

It lasted a few minutes, which is way longer than the last ten times I've tried. But then the screen started slowly moving around my character (because I'd been AFK too long), and within 2 seconds, CRASH, black screen.

 

I'm thinking that the issue lies with removing or overwriting GPU memory (at least for me). It was able to load the game fine, and as long as no change took place on-screen it was also fine. Does this sound absurd?

[BarderothReturns]

Someone mentioned earlier that other console ported games also have the issue. I will test the theory tomorrow and post the results.

 

I never mentioned it before, but these are the specs for both computers I'm testing

 

Comp#1

Windows 7 Home Premium 64x

Intel Core i5 2.68GHz

4GB RAM

1GB NVidia Geforce 250 GTS

 

Comp#2

Windows XP Professional

Intel Dual Core 2GHz

2GB RAM

512MB NVidia Geforce 9500GT

Edited November 18, 2011 by BarderothReturns

[JaceTiger]

I just tried running it with my CPU fan speed jacked up... and a box fan pointing directly into my open computer case. It crashed, and I got it on film this time. YouTube link on the way...

 

 

 

Ok, DanRocco, I can tell you right now, a box fan doesn't do anything (I have tried) unless you use it to EXHAUST. Pointing into the the computer doesn't cool the components down directly and really could do more damage by overpowering your case's fans and circulating hot air. As an exhaust, it works fairly well to pull hot air out, but again, not all that well. If you want an oversized fan to circulate air, I suggest a shop fan (looks abit like half a yin-yang, has intake on the side of it and forces air through a tiny opening) in exhaust mode. Really box fan sized fans are a bit too powerful to use as intake since A) they will typically only circulate air in the case and B) more importantly you could wind up causing something like a bit of paper (or even a particularly dense dust ball) to clog the cpu/gpu fan(s), without you noticing or just plain clogging them with dust.

 

Or you could use one to create something of a wind tunnel (put up a couple pieces of cardboard or something around computer (2 parallel pieces about 3-6 inches from sides of computer) and pushing air past the entire case. Even better would be liquid cooling setup for your rig. One of my friends showed me a neat lil rig he made using some old refrigerator parts. He literally attached the coils to one side of the case and set it up to keep that side at about 5oC in the summer with moisture control capsules taped to the inside of that wall. And before you guys start freaking out about that, it's a double-walled case he built. The inside of his OC rig maxes out at about 50oC with 2 fans (front bottom intake and top rear exhaust) with that system.

[Eliian]

I have played for nearly a week with no crashing issues. Then today when I was inside and walking near Markarth it crashed in both cases (when I was doing quests there the other day, no issues 5-6 hours). The crash is the same as others have been describing With a pop up that says you were disconnected to the drivers. Decided to travel to near the other side of the map and have not crashed since. So I am fortunate enough to spend a nice amount of time with the game. Hopefully they have a patch soon.

 

I5 2500k at stock (3.3 Ghz)

6870 over-clocked (memory and core)

Windows 7

Legit Version.

 

I know quite a few people that are not having this issue. Though most of them are using xp.

Edited November 18, 2011 by Eliian

[monsterminty]

don't know if you guys have done this yet but check the windows event viewer - right click "computer" and select manage then go to event viewer in the left margin > windows logs > Applications and look for the windows error report around the time of the crash select one and view the results in the panel below. and research the seemingly random numbers :)

[DanRocco]

I have played for nearly a week with no crashing issues. Then today when I was inside and walking near Markarth it crashed in both cases (when I was doing quests there the other day, no issues 5-6 hours). The crash is the same as others have been describing With a pop up that says you were disconnected to the drivers. Decided to travel to near the other side of the map and have not crashed since. So I am fortunate enough to spend a nice amount of time with the game. Hopefully they have a patch soon.

 

I5 2500k at stock (3.3 Ghz)

6870 over-clocked (memory and core)

Windows 7

Legit Version.

 

I know quite a few people that are not having this issue. Though most of them are using xp.

 

The issue covered in this thread does not involve a pop-up of any kind. It is a sudden, total loss of connection in the video card, followed by a total lockup of the computer.

I recorded it happening to me in Whiterun: