kirbyloveszoe Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Not really sure how to explain this, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. My game was recently broken by the "unable to click ok" bug. I then reinstalled the game. After reinstalling Skyrim, I realized it had become impossible to launch. Clicking play in the launcher just restarted the launcher. An hour later, I had a solution to that, I restored a previous version of TESV.exe. Upon launching the bug appeared to be gone, but the next time I played, it happened again. This time, I found a "solution". This solution, which told me to verify the game cache through Steam, "fixed" two issues. Or at least that's what it said it did. It broke my launching system beyond repair, because for some reason I can no longer find a previous version of the only working launcher. Unable to launch the game at all this point, I have no way of knowing if it at least fixed the original bug. I don't really know what's going on anymore. I would like to thank Bethesda for reminding me again of how much I LOATHE Steam. tl;dr: One game-breaking bug and it's solution made my game unable to launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The original TESV.exe only works with the original textures bsa so if you don't have both then it's a no go. When you reinstalled did you wipe everything, including my documents, my games skyrim folder? (After copying your saves to a safe location of course!) Try deleting your inis and restarting the game then quit, recopy your saves to the saves folder and start the game again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbyloveszoe Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 I just went through and wiped the my documents/my games/skyrim, then I deleted skyrimprefs.ini, but it appears to have done nothing. If it wasn't clear before, the game is not launching at all. Just the launcher with the picture of skyrim and the play/datafiles/exit options and whatnot. clicking play will either crash the launcher, or it will restart the launcher with steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Did you dial back your Windows sound? This was the original widespread problem for crashing on launch and supposedly fixed with patch 1.2 but it can't hurt to check. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Sound In the Playback tab, right click on Speakers (or whatever has a green tick next to it), then click Properties In the advanced tab on this new window, select 24 bit, 44100Hz (Studio Quality) in the drop down menu You can also try to log in to your Steam account and verify your cache as well as removing any mods you may have installed (reinstalling the game doesn't remove mods unless you delete your entire skyrim folder.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbyloveszoe Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 Verifying my cache is what broke it the second time. And I just fixed the sound issue. But clicking play in the launcher DOES NOT start the game. When I click "Play" The launcher leaves my screen, Steam tells me it is preparing to launch The Elder Scrolls - Skyrim, and the launcher reappears once more. TESV.exe has yet to appear in my task manager even for a moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Yes, we understand that your game is not launching at all and that you have tried all the fixes that have corrected that problem for other people. The next step is to reinstall your video drivers after doing a clean sweep of the old ones. Check if there are updated ones but even if you have the latest one then reinstall it, sometimes drivers get corrupted too. Listing your DxDiag can help us help you as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbyloveszoe Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) My DxDiag: Edited December 13, 2011 by kirbyloveszoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Okay, laptop then. From this- AMD Radeon HD 6200 series GraphicsDisplay Memory: 1958 MB Dedicated Memory: 371 MB Shared Memory: 1587 MB All from 4 gig total system RAM, I'd suggest that you update to the latest AMD driver (after a clean sweep of course) and install the 4gb mod. The problem stems from Beth games, especially Skyrim, not playing nice with laptops due to their CPU intensiveness and kludgy memory handling. Then dial your graphics all the way down and see if will launch. If it does then boost up your graphics a little bit at a time until you find your maximum stability and try to limit the amount of mods you add and do that only one at a time to check stability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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