hmather1 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I have been playing Skyrim on medium settings for a while now, with no problems. I think i have about 25 hours in. Suddenly, as I was finishing up the Thieves guild storyline, It froze for about 3 seconds, and then crashed to desktop. no warning, no explanation. I had not changed any settings or anything. Now when I start the game, I cannot play for more than 30 seconds before it crashes again. I have tried all of the fixes I could find online, such as lowering the settings, un-install and re-install, verify game cache, and other things. This is severely annoying. i have put a lot of time and effort into this character, and I would really like to play. ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Have you turned on Papyrus logging to see if it gives any clue as to what might be responsible for the crashing? Have you run BOSS to order your mods? There's also the possibility that you suddenly developed a hardware issue. Have you run any other demanding games since this started to occur? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmather1 Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Have you turned on Papyrus logging to see if it gives any clue as to what might be responsible for the crashing? Have you run BOSS to order your mods? There's also the possibility that you suddenly developed a hardware issue. Have you run any other demanding games since this started to occur? now that I think of it, I did actually download another pretty big game at about the time these crashes began... what does that mean? however, I uninstalled it yesterday. no change. as for the other things, I have not. thanks for your help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmather1 Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 So I started a new character, and it worked fine for over an hour. Then when I loaded my old character, it froze again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Save game issue then. How big is the save game file, and what mods have you installed/uninstalled for that character? Something in that save game is causing problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmather1 Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Alright. Well I only have a few mods, and I've had them for almost the entire time with no problems. As far as the size of the save game file, i honestly dont know how you would find that out? The crashes started when I was nearing the end of the twilight scepulcher... I guess I'll try loading an earlier save before I entered there, and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 The save file location is in a folder named "Saves" at the same location as the Skyrim.ini configuration file. It will be under ....\ Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves on Windows 7. You can look at the file size and make sure it's not more than 15 MB, Shouldn't be more than 10 MB, unless it's a character that has been all over Skyrim doing every quest, killing a lot of things, and looting. You haven't installed any new mods at all recently? That's usually what does it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmather1 Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Ok well I'm not able to look at it at the moment, but I have a feeling that may be it. I have been around skyrim a lot, and I have a TON of stuff Ive looted back at my house. And I have a lot of open quests.... What would I do if this were the case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmather1 Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 ok So these are my save files for this char. the size of the save file seems to have doubled since i entered the scepulcher, which seems weird because the scepulcher isnt even that big of a place or anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmather1 Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 and no, I have not installed any new mods lately if i remember correctly. I HAVE uninstalled some though. I only have about five installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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