modsrkool Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 So about a day ago, my screen started to go black and it would appear my monitor would reload itself. It will go black (usually sound will stop as well)then reload with a ASUS (my monitor) logo in the corner as if I just turned it on. This never happened before. Today I thought to myself maybe it was a bad mod but after getting rid of some mods, nothing worked so I just installed the entire game. Previously, my game would crash every three black screens or so. This fixed the crash but the screen still jumps to black. I did that through steam after deleting my data folder.I had 1 mod that would do anything with appearance and that was just for the skies and I got rid of that. I tried lowering settings such as dropping texture detail to low. Big difference from high.My graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 After closing skyrim I get this little message: http://prntscr.com/conix This is the only game that happens to. I can play other games like battlefield 3 or mw3 fine. I stopped playing Skyrim for a bit and I came back to this. So any ideas to fix it would be great :) thanks to anybody who helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 You might try reinstalling your drivers according to this link. NVidia changed their update procedures, but didn't get the word out. Updating drivers the way we have all been used to causes all kinds of problems, and may be the cause of your troubles. It's a bit of reading but may save your heaps of more problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Possibly an overheating video board.Here is a link to my troubleshooting blog. Go through the overheating part. http://s1.zetaboards.../4751769/1/#new If you use any of this and have some success - or even if nothing works - please post back here what you did that worked or didn't work. That kind of information can be invaluable to other members having the same or similar problems - And to me in fixing any problems in the blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modsrkool Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) Possibly an overheating video board.Here is a link to my troubleshooting blog. Go through the overheating part. http://s1.zetaboards.../4751769/1/#new If you use any of this and have some success - or even if nothing works - please post back here what you did that worked or didn't work. That kind of information can be invaluable to other members having the same or similar problems - And to me in fixing any problems in the blog. I looked over your blog and followed some of the steps in there to clean up my PC. Took it all apart and cleaned it out. Even went an extra step to blow the dust out then go in with a clean paint brush. Cleaned my monitor as well.My video card was pretty hot. I took a blow dryer with a cold setting and blew on it to cool it down.After all that, I set my PC back up with everything in place and Skyrim still goes to a black screen every once and a while. I'll be honest it feels like it might be doing better though. felt like it took longer to go to that black screen but it still continues to occur. Thanks for the suggestion though :( As for Georgiegril, I haven't had time to get to reinstalling my drivers the way described in the post you linked yet. Something came up I had to deal with. It's a lot to read, I'll try it tomorrow. Edit: I also just installed SKSE. Thats the only thing that wasn't uninstalled during my reinstall of skyrim so I might try removing that. Edited July 26, 2012 by modsrkool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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