Ducky8624 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I can start the game through steam, but when I get to the start menu I cannot click play... All of the other options work data files, options, tech support and exit but not play... Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirasu88 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Sorta got the same problem, on click play skyrim screen goes to background and the game never launches :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducky8624 Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 for me nothing happens.. the button is just unresponsive, it really is pissing me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nuts4re Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 me too. I played yesterday for 8 minutes, had to leave and shutt down the pc. Steam installed an "update" yesterday, and now i have no sound, and it will not launch the game no matter what i try. Any help with this would be very much appreciated. running XP64 with a Soundmax card. No idea why the sound in the game menu went away, or if they is any. I did try the sounds setting tweak but i do not have any of those options to choose from. i even launched Fallout NewVegas from Steam and it runs fine. Thanks. (PLEASE HELP!) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Some people have had to go back to their back-up TESV.exe (those who backed it up originally) and that fixed it while others have gone back to Steam and re-verified their cache and that fixed it for them. If your game is already broken, it wouldn't hurt to go back to Steam and let it download today's newest patch I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuts4re Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Some people have had to go back to their back-up TESV.exe (those who backed it up originally) and that fixed it while others have gone back to Steam and re-verified their cache and that fixed it for them. If your game is already broken, it wouldn't hurt to go back to Steam and let it download today's newest patch I guess. Regrettably, I did not back up anything, i had just installed the game after it arrived. it updated through Steam and has not worked since. Can you enlighten me on how to " re verify cache " or, may i force an update? i have connected to Steam many times trying to fix this, my other Steam games work fine. Skyrim will just not start. Thanks for the reply, and the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 To verify your cache - go to Steam, click on Library, right click on Skyrim, click properties, click Local Files, click Verify Integrity of Cache (or something similarly worded) and let it run. Hopefully my memory is good as I haven't done it since FONV and I'm not about to go back to Steam at point! Some one please correct me if I've missed something here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisD Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Your computer already backs up the exe. I'm on my phone so I can't check but I know you don't need to have manually backed it up. If there are no posts on how to do this when I get home ill post how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Those of us who have long since learned our lessons from the the FO3/GFWL and FONV/Steam debacles always make a copy of the original .exes (and .inis) and store them safely in a separate folder and never play the games online. No problem as long as you don't care about achievements. Eventually, when the game fix patches (as opposed to the recent DRM .exe patch) come out we'll all have to deal with it anyway but in the meantime we're happily chugging along playing our game with LAA and no CTDs. Again, if your .exe is corrupted then verifying your cache should correct it ( it automatically scans your computer and replaces any game files that are corrupted.) I will however be interested in seeing what CutisD has come up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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