Bhek Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 (edited) Okay, so, I installed Windows 7 again a while ago after my last hard drive went "screw this, I'm out". Haven't touched skyrim in a while, but in my previous installation of Windows 7 it worked fine, almost no crashes, had a character at level 50 or so. I came back to skyrim a while ago (it's on steam, digital copy only), installed, had a bunch of mods subscribed and it would crash at the intro. Got rid of the mods, re-installed skyrim 3 times so far. Had to re-download the whole thing every time. Clean installation and it still crashes at the beginning, at that scene where you're headed to be decapitated. It's seconds after the horse thief speaks for the first time. I tried this so far: Changed the audio setting to 44 mhz and 16bits. Still crashes.Cleaned the My Games folder of any saves and settings. Still crashes.Updated my GPU driver (GTX 560ti). Still crashes.Updated directX. Still crashes.Updated windows 7 to SP1 and every other possible update. Still crashes.Ran a game cache integrity check on steam. Still crashes.Disabled my anti-virus program (ESET NOD 32). Still crashes.Among other things, like shutting down every possible program running on background. And... yeah.. still crashes. My Computer specs are these: i7 - 2.9GHz (8 cores)8GB RAMGeForce GTX 560tiWindows 7 Ultimate 32bits Build 7601 Can anyone please help me? This is an amazing game and I don't want to believe I won't be able to play it no matter what I try...Thanks in advance, even if we can't fix this. Edited March 30, 2012 by Bhek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisnpuppy Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 When you reinstall, unsubscribe to any mods...delete (or move if you want to save it for some reason) the Skyrim folder in your Steam/Steamapps/Common and delete the Skyrim folder in the My Documents/Games/ folder where your save games usually are. Reinstall without any mods like this. Deleting local content in Steam will not always get rid of everything so you have to physically delete it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBodZod Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 When you reinstall, unsubscribe to any mods...delete (or move if you want to save it for some reason) the Skyrim folder in your Steam/Steamapps/Common and delete the Skyrim folder in the My Documents/Games/ folder where your save games usually are. Reinstall without any mods like this. Deleting local content in Steam will not always get rid of everything so you have to physically delete it all. I can confirm that this is the case, whenever you remove the local content of the game, the saves and some of the files, including mods are left as remnants that need to be purged first. Then follow the example above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhek Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 (edited) I did that, I unsubscribed from everything, deleted everything that was left after uninstalling Skyrim, deleted the Skyrim folder at My Games, deleted the Data folder and other stuff that was left at the Steam folder structure, everything that I could think of. I did that two times so far. When I reinstall and open the data files at the Skyrim launcher it only shows the two official high-res patches. The installation is completely clean from any mods, at least any mods that would mess with the Skyrim folders at MyGames and Steam folders. I don't know of any other place where a mod could affect the game. Edited March 30, 2012 by Bhek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhek Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 Okay, I rounded down the problem. At low settings the game works fine as far as I saw (after Alduin ruins the whole place and you enter a building to get your hands free and first equipment). So tried this: I put the game into very high settings, but left the view distance setting as they are when set for low. The game works fine now. Why do I have problems with view distance if my system specs aren't low? Is this a recurring problem? Any way around it? I can live with low view distances, no problem with that. I just want to understand the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngeGardien Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Okay, I rounded down the problem. At low settings the game works fine as far as I saw (after Alduin ruins the whole place and you enter a building to get your hands free and first equipment). So tried this: I put the game into very high settings, but left the view distance setting as they are when set for low. The game works fine now. Why do I have problems with view distance if my system specs aren't low? Is this a recurring problem? Any way around it? I can live with low view distances, no problem with that. I just want to understand the issue. I cannot say if it's can help but you seem having a big machine, i don't know what is the problems but try to look this, when you start a game you arrive in the windows they give you choice to play, quit, ect..., choose option, look down you will find a line writing, advanced, click on it, they will give you more option, put all in the max, check the box FXAA and the box writing "detailled in distance", sorry i am not sure it's this in english, but anyway they have only two box, so put all in max and check all the box, start your game and now try to put your distence view to the max, you seem to have a good machine so i don't know why you are not able, i don't know if it's the fact you run in 32 bits with windows ?, but i am not expert on this, i don't think it's can change something... anyway try this an i hope it's can help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echinops113 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Okay, so, I installed Windows 7 again a while ago after my last hard drive went "screw this, I'm out". Haven't touched skyrim in a while, but in my previous installation of Windows 7 it worked fine, almost no crashes, had a character at level 50 or so. I came back to skyrim a while ago (it's on steam, digital copy only), installed, had a bunch of mods subscribed and it would crash at the intro. Got rid of the mods, re-installed skyrim 3 times so far. Had to re-download the whole thing every time. Clean installation and it still crashes at the beginning, at that scene where you're headed to be decapitated. It's seconds after the horse thief speaks for the first time. I tried this so far: Changed the audio setting to 44 mhz and 16bits. Still crashes.Cleaned the My Games folder of any saves and settings. Still crashes.Updated my GPU driver (GTX 560ti). Still crashes.Updated directX. Still crashes.Updated windows 7 to SP1 and every other possible update. Still crashes.Ran a game cache integrity check on steam. Still crashes.Disabled my anti-virus program (ESET NOD 32). Still crashes.Among other things, like shutting down every possible program running on background. And... yeah.. still crashes. My Computer specs are these: i7 - 2.9GHz (8 cores)8GB RAMGeForce GTX 560tiWindows 7 Ultimate 32bits Build 7601 Can anyone please help me? This is an amazing game and I don't want to believe I won't be able to play it no matter what I try...Thanks in advance, even if we can't fix this. Getting tired of CTDs, uninstalled the game completely, removed *.ini files, reinstall the game, install hi-res tex, and then exactly the same thing, CTD after thief spoke, tried the same thing as Bhek did to no avail... anyone have any solid suggestions of what's wrong and how to fix 'em? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorwynKelm Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 You're running x64 right? Not x32 like in your OP. Run TESV.exe as admin. And unless I'm mistaken, the GTX 560ti is a 1GB card, right? It's possible that your vram is maxing out on textures, etc. Unless you really are running 8GB of ram on Win7 x32, in which case I can't (won't) help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dividebyz3r0 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 OP, are you running an SSD and/or have your page file disabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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