And now, I'm broken...

[Alendi]

I'm having random CTDsl, but I'm uncertain as to whether or not they're related to my system resources or hardware. Let me explain.

 

When I installed the game, the only real hurdle I had to overcome was the audio issue, which was fine. The game ran amazingly on my rig, with only rare crashes that would vary in their frequency. I was ok with this; I learned to save often and lost little time at all.

 

Strangely, the game seemed seemed to change over time; the first I noticed of its instability was being unable to exit Jorvaskr in Whiterun. I shrugged it off, only because I had completed all of their quests and wasn't bothered by not being able to do any more random infinity quests. But the game started to get worse: certain locations revisited would crash in the same way upon entering; finally, it got to the point where I could no longer play for five minutes in ANY location without the game crashing to desktop.

 

None of my system settings have changed. I've tried all versions of the game. My drivers are up to date; I'm running a stripped down Windows 7 64, with bare minimal processes, just like before. Skyrim is the only game that has developed this sort of 'systemic' degeneration. It's really weird. My theory is that it's a save file issue. I don't know how the game works, but my character is level 69 and I have a TON of save files--2.56GB worth.

 

Starting the game anew by removing my save files changes everything--I can play the game like I used to. Also, the quicksave feature performs much faster now that all the other files are gone. They really need to fix this cumulative effect with save files. I'd really like to tie up the few loose ends I had with my initial character rather than start all over. I pretty much finished the game in terms of quests and exploration. Hopefully, they'll figure out that it's the save files likely crashing a lot of people to their desktop. Any thoughts on this folks?

 

Cheers,

 

_E

[shadowfx78]

i would make a post in the technical support forum i dont think your going to get any help here

[NoobusExtremus]

Get rid of or move all but a few of your save files (<user>\documents\my games\skyrim\saves). The more you have, the longer it takes for the game to read through them all to bring up the list. Also, the longer it takes to save a game.

 

I had quite a few save files, and was getting annoyed at how long it took for the game to show me the list when I wanted to load one. I deleted most of the old ones and only left a dozen or so. Things started to run smooth again and saves/loads were snappy again.

Edited December 23, 2011 by NoobusExtremus