XalltheY Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Hey guys. Thanks for taking the time to read this! Since I got Skyrim, the game has been slowly taking longer and longer to load as I play and install mods and such. The worst it got to over the course of about 3 months or so is taking 2 minutes in load screens. This never really bothered me. Today, however, the time it took suddenly jumped. I installed a few texture edits I wanted and began playing Skyrim. Suddenly, it was taking 10 minutes just to load. I tried various improvement tips I found online, undoing the ones that didn't seem to work. None of them decreased load time. It became worse and worse and I finally began uninstalling all the mods I had downloaded in the past 3 weeks or so, testing the gamer after uninstalling the mods one by one. The load times actually got even worse. Thinking it was a problem of a corrupted save, I tried using my testing save which is lower level. The same problem occurred there, so I doubt it is a save game corruption. Sometimes it loads stuff instantly (which it hasn't done since day 1) and other times it goes up to 30 minutes to load a house interior. Finally it ended up taking 45 minutes to load Whiterun with no sign of ever loading. This is where things began to get weird. In a last move of desperation, I opened task manager via CTRL-ALT-DELETE to quit Skyrim. As soon as I did, the game loaded. I entered another room, waited, and then opened up task manager. As soon as task manager opened, the game loaded. I restarted Skyrim and immediately opened task manager as the save game was loading. The game world loaded as soon as task manager opened. I tested this over and over with various places, and it has worked without fail.I'm completely stumped. I have no idea why this could be happening. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerlord Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 how fast is your computer and is it up to the specifications for one....for two it might mean that the game information from your saves are bigger then they were when you started for instance...I too have issues where my game will say "stopped working" while the game figures out what it's doing...but it pulls up within a few moments... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XalltheY Posted April 5, 2012 Author Share Posted April 5, 2012 how fast is your computer and is it up to the specifications for one....for two it might mean that the game information from your saves are bigger then they were when you started for instance...I too have issues where my game will say "stopped working" while the game figures out what it's doing...but it pulls up within a few moments...My computer is pretty fast. too tired to pull up the specs right now, but I have an i7 processor and 16 gigs of RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric31415 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 This has been an issue since one of the early patches. I don't remember having it with the "day one" patch, but it started soon after. The only "fix" that i have ever heard is the one you have already discovered, tho good old three finger salute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XalltheY Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 This has been an issue since one of the early patches. I don't remember having it with the "day one" patch, but it started soon after. The only "fix" that i have ever heard is the one you have already discovered, tho good old three finger salute.Can this be fixed with a reinstall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy1123 Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 The re-install fixed mine abotu 6 weeks ago. A typical Game save file will be in the range of 6 megs to 10 megs. When your game saves jump beyond this range, or your game save files just drastically increase in size, your game is corrupted. For some reason, just restarting a new play session does not fix it. It took un-installing / re-installing to do it. I don't recommend using a large game save on the new load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XalltheY Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 The re-install fixed mine abotu 6 weeks ago. A typical Game save file will be in the range of 6 megs to 10 megs. When your game saves jump beyond this range, or your game save files just drastically increase in size, your game is corrupted. For some reason, just restarting a new play session does not fix it. It took un-installing / re-installing to do it. I don't recommend using a large game save on the new load.Jeeez... I was only level 26 in the save o__0 barely did anything. Plus I had a level 9 character. So I have to delete my save? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XalltheY Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 Deleting save files didn't help. I'm gonna reinstall later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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