Skyrim crashes from main menu

[Borgut1337]

now with the patch, my game won't start. When I launch the game I first get the bethesda logo etc, then see the menu for about a second, but before I'm able to press ''continue'' I get a crash already. Tried deleting Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini, and also tried launching without any mods enabled, nothing helps. Also verified cache integrity with steam. Any suggestions?

[Kalimni]

See if you can roll back to the previous patch: Turn of auto update, and place steam in offline mode, then Right-click skyrim folder, properties, previous versions, and see if there is a folder in there from a couple of days ago.

 

Also, make sure all of your drivers are up to date, and use the most recent beta drivers for your video card.

[Borgut1337]

nope when I go to properties, previous version it says that no previous versions are available. And I doubt it'd be driver related seeing how I did play over 200 hours without any problems in previous versions, but will give it a try anyway.

 

EDIT: Already have latest version of drivers, nothing works

Edited February 2, 2012 by Borgut1337

[ProjectVRD]

complete reinstallation may be required, but before that instead of using 'Continue' try loading one of your earlier saves.

[Borgut1337]

complete reinstallation may be required, but before that instead of using 'Continue' try loading one of your earlier saves.

 

I didn't actually get the time to press continue, already crashed before that. But found the problem, the problem was that the game was trying to use a .wav I had in my skyrim\data\music\special folder instead of a .xwm which it's supposed to use for playing the main theme in the main menu. I renamed the .wav file to something else so the game would instead find the .xwm file in the .bsa again, and that fixed it :)