Crash, crash, crash and crash

[Halendia]

Alright, this is sincerely getting frustrating right now. I've been playing Skyrim since release, and at some point (around 2 months ago) the game started crashing uncontrollably.

 

My specs before I go more into it:

 

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T @ 3,3GHz

Sapphire Radeon HD6970 2GB x2 in Xfire

Corsair Vengeance 16GB

3x screens but NO eyefinity

Catalyst 12.3

 

Now the things is, as I said my game started crashing uncontrollably: It happens from time to time, seldom inside cities and dungeons though, but it does happen. At first my game was running perfectly with mods yadda yadda but I guess I stepped over a limit at some point because the game started malfunctioning. This led me to deactivate previous DLed mods, which, unfortunately, didn't do the trick. Game still crashed. I lowered Graphics settings hoping it'd improve, and it did for a while, but it's on again now. I'm also experiencing lag in cities and outdoors. I've tried deactivating all mods at points AND reinstalled the game AND deleting .ini files, etc etc.

 

Now I've tried to troubleshoot this since it started, but all I can find is stuff for people with... not as sufficient hardware. I've got a gaming rig, and it runs anything I throw at it perfectly, so why not Skyrim?

Edited March 17, 2012 by Halendia

[Brandy1123]

Welcome aboard our little ship of unhappy players.

 

Probably unrelated, but since the STEAMypile update 3 nights ago, my sound no longer works right. I get no sound straight on if i am looking at the noise making "thing". If i turn left or right, I hear sound in Mono on the direction i turn. I have loaded no new mods or game alterations in a while, well before the sound issue.

 

I'm not even going to waste a photon of light bringing up any troubleshooting tools. With the exception of checking my sound options in my system, that 20 second check and test concluded its not my hardware.

[curme]

I crash when I ride horses. It will be fine at first, I will be riding along and then BAM! CTD

[Halendia]

Welcome aboard our little ship of unhappy players.

 

Probably unrelated, but since the STEAMypile update 3 nights ago, my sound no longer works right. I get no sound straight on if i am looking at the noise making "thing". If i turn left or right, I hear sound in Mono on the direction i turn. I have loaded no new mods or game alterations in a while, well before the sound issue.

 

I'm not even going to waste a photon of light bringing up any troubleshooting tools. With the exception of checking my sound options in my system, that 20 second check and test concluded its not my hardware.

 

I had that exact problem at the start. Shame I can't seem to remember how to fix it...!

[gengar807]

it seems like skyrim is the worst game you can get on your computer...iv been hearing a lot of the same thing of how skyrim wont work......to tell you the truth just get it for console unless if your up to the match of being unhappy becasue you cant play skyrim...it seems like skyrim is too big of a game and the graphics are really good so your lucky if you got a computer that can take that

 

by any chance are you using mods for the game or are you just playing vanilla skyrim

Edited March 18, 2012 by gengar807

[nosisab]

We came to that point where the only way to help is knowing what specifically you have in your machine. I mean, your mod list, their load order, "where" is your game installed (and in this case where Steam itself is installed)... machine specs is useful information too but you already provided it.

 

It's not the end of world yet, but is close :) it was this way with all those Bethesda games preceding Skyrim and their literally thousand of mods, most of them conflicting one with another. Those abnegated people working at BOSS, NMM, Wrye bash and why not, WS too are trying to do exactly this, patiently verifying mods and finding their best position in the load order, trying to remove conflicts, merge features, make ease/installing uninstalling mods, but in the end part of the work will rest on the user's shoulder. Be prepared for things will worsen yet more when the big overhauls start coming out and them will be needed hand made patches just to get them working together.

 

Edit: To note the extension of the problem ... all misfortunes are still "credited" to the game or utilities, we did not come yet to that realization that individual mods can be cause of problems all by themselves...

Edited March 18, 2012 by nosisab

[FrenchieDwemer]

Have been playing since the very first day, experiencing random crashes without error message for about two months by now. Since the 1.4 patch I'd say. This is incredibly pissing me off. I love that game, I could spend many of my few free moments playing it just as I did with Morrowind for instance, and voilà, since I've been unable to find any fix, I can't play anymore in the knowledge that sooner or later, a m*****f*cking crash will f*ck up my game.

 

Also, I'm sorry for the irrelevant rant. But, I am really, really tired.

[curme]

Now it crashes when I enter the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary so I can't finish the quest. I Googled for a solution and found out that this bug has been there for months!

[Halendia]

We came to that point where the only way to help is knowing what specifically you have in your machine. I mean, your mod list, their load order, "where" is your game installed (and in this case where Steam itself is installed)... machine specs is useful information too but you already provided it.

 

It's not the end of world yet, but is close :) it was this way with all those Bethesda games preceding Skyrim and their literally thousand of mods, most of them conflicting one with another. Those abnegated people working at BOSS, NMM, Wrye bash and why not, WS too are trying to do exactly this, patiently verifying mods and finding their best position in the load order, trying to remove conflicts, merge features, make ease/installing uninstalling mods, but in the end part of the work will rest on the user's shoulder. Be prepared for things will worsen yet more when the big overhauls start coming out and them will be needed hand made patches just to get them working together.

 

Edit: To note the extension of the problem ... all misfortunes are still "credited" to the game or utilities, we did not come yet to that realization that individual mods can be cause of problems all by themselves...

 

I refuse to believe it has to do with my hardware. I've spent thousands on this, researching and customizing every aspect of it.

 

Thing is; I'm fine without Vanilla Skyrim, because honestly I think it's s*** (I've an Xbox360 myself and my bro has the game for his, so it's not that I couldn't play if I really wanted to). I love modding and the community though, it's the only reason why I still play it, and if I can't even do that, I'm dropping this in the bin. It's simply not worth all the trouble.

 

Also: http://picz.dk/img/liqtlcfi-2012-03-18-23ae06ae27.png

 

Steam and Skyrim are installed in default paths. No manual edits. (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim)

 

 

Now it crashes when I enter the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary so I can't finish the quest. I Googled for a solution and found out that this bug has been there for months!

I can't enter either. Insta-crash.

Edited March 18, 2012 by Halendia

[dingoPboy]

Same here after the last patch black screen crash with pure vanilla when i start skyrim worked with 62+ mods previously with my current setup.

 

Reinstalled windows a week ago everything worked.

crossfire -AMD 7690s

8gb ram

driver 12.3 - worked fine before patch havent tried a earlier driver just yet.

Edited March 18, 2012 by dingoPboy