jsnider193 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) Starting tonight ran into an interesting problem the game will drop back to windows before gets to the load save game selection part. The game will show the bethesda logo, go on to the imperial emblem and then when tries to go from there you get a small screen in the upper left corner (all black at this point) and then the game drops back to windows. Note I have been playing for many hours (at level 40) and have checked the following 1. Made sure skyrim.esm is 1st .. yep (corrupted .. was able to load Ok in skyedit and twsvsnip .. so do not think so)2. A esp is blowing up the game .. disabled all esp's and the failure to load still occurs.3. Shortcut is wrong .. tried loading from main directory, same result.4. complete system shut down (in case something is haunting memory) and restart .. same load issue.5. Ck'd H/W .. disk ok, 16 GB main memory active, other games load fine (FNV, FO3, ME2), Processor passed test (4 cores all Ok), video card working fine .. no changes made to H/W. Now before I reload the game (or back out some texture changes to maps) and start patching all over again just wondering if someone can jump start my brain here and point out something obvious to me. One other comment, I did activate steam before played tonight and it loaded something not connected to SKyrim, then went offline and was able to get in and play, when quite and then decided to go back in to ck something is when above started occuring. No not saying was steam but taht is the only change that happened s/w or h/w wise. OK .. problem seems to be associated with the cache via steam. I have defrag it via steam and can load again, but after playing for a while the load problem returns, go back in and repeat the defrag via properties part of steam on the game and can load again. Save size is now at 12MB+ so could be running into something connected with this and the cache. Oh well if this work around fails I will update here, if continues to allow playing will also indicate, but if someone has a better solution I would apprec same. Edited January 9, 2012 by jsnider193 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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