SpaceTB

My game won’t load the next scene, its just replays the animation of the characters over and over agian, im at the part where you get of the carts and suposably you customize your character, but i can not even do that. im stuck sitting on the cart doing nothing. someone help

  hary trotter

@derpyhooves im having the same problem if any one knows how to fix this that would be great
thanks

  Sidove

My specs reaches recommended, Ive turned of Vsync, did that sound fix thingy and the crash to desktop fix but still when my characther dies the game crashes or when he enters a new area.

  Desperate

My Skyrim occasionaly minimises itself and when I click again on it it takes eons to load and then screen has some black stains or what some weird rectangles. How do I fix this?

  solidsnake

please if you can help…i played the dungeon perfectly without any problem and when i finished it and went outside the game crashes and freezes my pc that i need reset even in low graphics …i have download the latest drivers and dx and i put update 1 repack…also sometimes all of a sudden i find the skyrimlauncher deleted…i try my other games anfd they run without problems like battlefield 3 i run it in high settings no lag at all…i have i3 540 – gfx ati hd 6770 – 4 g ram

  Anonymous

Skyrim crashes when doing second mage colege quest when i hawe to hit a wall with magic to get out of the trap

  liquidsnake

Same for me here, it specifically crashes at the second Mage College quest after I get the Psijic Order vision, but it also crashes randomly throughout the game, FUCK YOU BSOD! :O! Anyone found a fix yet? there seems to be no update yet, how stupid!

  Random Helperer!

Ok, I found the answer!
I had the same issue and it has nothing to do with your sound or anti-virus.
It’s simple, first of all my computer is the absolute highest spec machine on the market so any smoothness or low frame rates problems are game related.
So on the launcher go into your options, and turn off all anti-aliasing (Like I said any good computer could handle it, if the game didn’t crash).
All other settings (like mine), can be maximized, all view distance sliders are on full with distant object detail on ultra and object detail fade unchecked without any game issues.
Also, the Anisotropic Filtering can also be maxed without any crashing.

Fixing the florescent blue and green squares on your HUD
Extra friendly tip: Turning the Shadow Detail to Ultra in the advanced settings will do strange things to your HUD. So make sure it’s set at High or lower!
I hope this helps!

  liquidsnake

Ok so far (way more far into the 2nd Mage Quest) it fixed it, no more bluescreen of death no crashing! Thanks a lot man!

  kris9515

Hey! I have this kind of problem – so my gear is Nvidia Galaxy 9400 GT[512 MB] 4 GB RAM, Intel Dual core E4600 2.4 ghz, Windows XP. The game can run in Each graphic option from Low to Ultra, but when i go outside somewhere i get this annoying freezing screen. Like..i walk 1-2 minutes and then my screen freezes for about 5 seconds. Tryed to install DirectX10 , Changed my sound to 44.1khz, updated the game changed to lower resolution but nothing happend, it still freezes when i’m outside the world. Can anyone help me, because this is one big and annoying problem :/

  brotha

@liquidsnake, @derpyhooves @harytrotter

holy shit i finally found someone with the same problem too!

i have that EXACT same thing the screen goes black, and after a few seconds of Skyrim there is a repetetive freezing sound and by this point i usually hit the power button. it was happening at totally random times, however… today it seems to happen every 5 mins if i am running in the world.

it has not ONCE happened inside of a dungeon. today i literally cant play i run anywhere outside and boom. 1-5 mins; yesterday it happened once every 30misn – 3 hours.

skyrim has been freezing just as stated above 1-5 mins all day ive basically given up playing.

I have a radeon 6870 have gone from high graphics / not much lag down to medium and now down to all low; except textures still on medium.

i dont know what to do anymore.

  Bob

@Random Helperer
If I disable AA and then force it through my GPU, will this fix the issue too?
I’d really rather not play without AA, if it’s the only option though, it can’t be helped, I guess.

  Shane

my glich is that on the first lesson guest a dragon thought it would b a good time to attack the mages guild … after the dragon was killed i cant continue the quest as the npc walks around and acts as if iv completed the quest but wen i try and speak to her she says the same thing she says druing the quest .. ie “i will talk to you after i hav shown u around” any1 no if theres anything i can do ???

  liquidsnake

After analyzing all the forums and all the issues related to the Bluescreen of death, Computer shutdown, Video Card shutdown, there seems to be no fix for it, as the other forums mentioned, Patch 1.2 is coming this week, I would strongly suggest not playing until they fix this, you could severely damage your computer trying to play with the crashes and shutdowns, and yes I do understand the “i would do anything to play this game” thinking, same thing here! I will wait for the patch as these fixes and solution research is becoming EXTREMELY time-consuming!

  JR

Also, I get game crashes every so often with no discernable cause and no discernable time when one will occur. And when it crashes, it crashes to desktop and displays no error message either… haven’t had the game freeze on me yet though… my temporary solution until a patch comes out is to save the game every 3-5 minutes (got about 350 savefiles now though after playing for about 40 hours)

But make sure you update your drivers!

  liquidsnake

I just tried to uninstall drivers completely, run in safe mode, driver sweep all the drivers, reboot, re-install old/new drivers, NOTHING works, video card keeps stopping and rebooting, bluescreens, it’s really an issue with the game itself! I declare forfeit! Will definitely wait for the patch, I’ve tried EVERYTHING!

  Lupercal

I haven’t had a lot of issues with skyrim recently but i know some crashes are caused by options in the sound settings, also anyone who has performance issues with skyrim you can get a couple of mods over at skyrimnexus.com that tweak your .dll files for better performance and there is a tut on how to make skyrim use more then 2gigs of ram. Hope it helps some!

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  mark

heres a small shout that i found helped me, if your running win7 aero desktops then for some reason they cause my system to crash to desktop, i changeD to a normal desktop background and ran in full screen windowed mode at native resolution, NOT ONE CRASH IN 3 HOURS OF PLAY………

  Wight

Just got skyrim. SORELY disappointed — yet another game where what, NOBODY beta tests anything? Last fantasy game was NWN, first *and* second sequel. AFTER I beat each, they patched the flaws, but I had a mage with a magic belt that added spells except if I loaded the game, he had his normal spells/remove the belt and he had less. Had to remove, save, quit, open, load, re-wear, rest, and THEN I’d have other spells — sequel? Added the arcane archer — caster archer class, but, really, did they playtest this expansion boasting that at ALL? Close range had a penalty on archery/ranged attacks, and, you got that penalty if your caster (arcane archers had to be casters/with nice warriorish combat values) had it’s FAMILIAR in a fight at close range. Obvious choice, send in the bear, let it melee, fire from 50′ away — nope, fucking bug, until after I’d played thru with a -4 on every shot… Well, now we have skyrim. Near as I can tell melee works right. Familiars/summons/whatever works right. Belts? Are there any? But the apparel that does exist works right. And the game crashes to the desktop every 3-10 minutes. Which, after all the patches that already exist, that *might* prove the game was written by assholes — but I’m more inclined to base that statement on the fact that the first few interactions starting the game are 5ish minute movies. MAYBE you’ll get thru one, MAYBE you won’t, PROBABLY you’ll be seeing that same goddamn execution 35-70 times before you get your game working right… If it can even be called “right”…

Skyrim fucking sucks, shouldn’t be so unstable, still have the occasional yellow thingy — blah. But yes, turning off antialiasing did the trick for me. This is the first page out of 30-40 I’ve read that said as much, and, dead-on/I’ve played for 3-4 hours now. With ONE crash. Yup, not a 100% fix, game’s just fucked. But, ONE crash in HOURS? I’m happy it’s “playable”. If pissed that one crash seems so tolerable in a world where the game wasn’t even tested at all it seems.

Point, turn off the Anti Alias options and give your game a try. Probably works better. And really? Smoother edges *are* nice, but I like to play with my glasses off and would rather froth at melee than be all critical of the look even when I have time to be placidly attentive… It’s fixable. Sorta. Bummer on yellow-items/people/me, and the occasional crash. But it’s playable. Finally. Not that those assholes writing the game ever just removed antialiasing in a patch… Fuck them. Thanks, this-page.

  Wight

I wrote books above. For anyone with the attention span, yay. I’d rather be playing skyrim.

But, just to give back to the community — and because I found it on NO PAGE AT ALL — My fix? Was to read all these other damn pages, often far less elegant ones that require a login before people can make useful comments btw — but to learn what I could, find some set of settings that would work, etc… *I did*. Or I seem to have. Give me another day or two to write back an “oopsies, this doesn’t work” blurb.

The fix, short version: DISABLE V-SYNC.

Some page, this or another, had me go into skyrim pref/ini/somesort of files, I forget now, and change a boolean to fix the vsync notion in-game. That’s great, I did that. I never undid that. I probably should, since I’m not sure why it’s there. For now, I haven’t, so find some vsync thingy that was set to 1 and turn it to 0, if you want to clone me absolutely. Point tho, the game setting, while it sounded good, didn’t do squat. Crashes every 5-10 minutes or so…

I found other suggestions — none seemed to show promise. I found this page, disable anti-aliasing (AA), *and* I did get a full 5 hours with only one crash. April fool’s day. And not after. Universe’s way of mocking me. I don’t know the particulars but I’ve read other people seeming to think there’s big differences in indoor vs outdoor crash rate. Point, I got lucky, got into the keep, got to play for 5 hours of “cast destruction on the guy leading me for free levels” (Is anyone NOT doing that?) — while in the keep my game was mostly stable. Crashed once. Finished up/left/saved and the next day — was hell.

Read other sites, other suggestions, turn this on, this off, this thing this way, whatever. What it woke me up to was that my graphics card actually had the ability to have particular settings *per application*. And that maybe some combination of tweakiness of those options would yield a good, playable skyrim game. And over seeing it on another page, and really wondering in my own head, “Is vsync ever good?” — but the first option I fiddled with was vsync. I know, right, it’s off in the game by the game settings. Default setting for my graphic card/driver install? “Let software manage vsync”. Crashes galore. But, fuck that. FORCE vsync off, and the game’s near perfect. I haven’t gotten yellow/gold hands, armor, ground, odd moments of black/red/whatever-color for turning the camera some odd way, the game’s crisp, clean, happy — oh, and I even went back and turned AA back on. and in 8-10 hours I only *sorta* crashed once — and PLEASE READ THE NEXT PARAGRAPH, PLEASE…

This is probably totally unrelated. Which of course means it *is* related… But how related? That’s a chance for you to take. Start off with I’m a smoker, a drinker, a sedentary lazy bastard, and I have a loving snuggly ball of fluff, a cat, who’s starting to shed but always seems to create a bit of fuzz no matter what time of year… Point, nicotine gunks EVERYTHING up. Stickily. Cat hair, dust, etc, gloms on. Fans die. Optical drives die. My printer? Still works, but over cat hair inside it can’t ever print perfectly. Etc… *Point* — Yeah, got Skyrim seeming perfect. Played a while. But 8-10 hours in their was a small pop and the power went dead. Not to the desk clock, and not to the other pc sharing the same power-plugs/on my KVM switch — no, just to the one that was playing skyrim. My power supply died. For those suggesting 500W min, 600W recommended means 600+? My 600W PSU died, I’m now on a 750…

With annoying glowy LED’s, let’s see if I can sleep tonight. If not? I’m taking the damn thing back…

Whatever — Skyrim Fix — Turn off Vsync. On your hardware. As to how? Let’s just say I’m a long time ATI fan, lots of them out there, and so ATI users would do well to find someone still using ATI graphics for such consultation. Just dig around. It’s probably there. NVidia? Seemed really the only choice — after 2 models of 8650 and one of 8670 were tried on my system. DVI has DVI-D and DVI-I connectors, who knew. ATI’s not even that forthcoming with what it’s doing with them. First 8650? Had a DVI-I and DVI-D connector, obvious. Trouble is I have 2xSVA monitors and only SVA-to-DVI-I adaptors. Returning to the store, I think they did find me a DVI-D adaptor, but it was around the price difference for another card, why not get one with the right connectors… And upon learning more, *can* there be a DVI-D adaptor? — Whatever — 2nd card, I try the 8670 — go read the specs on that damn thing. Something like 10.5″ long or somesuch. Was it 11″? Point, too goddamn long to fit in my case. 3rd, I go back to another model of 8650, different manufacturer, and yay, verified in store before leaving, it had the connectors I needed… Only that first 8650 wasn’t lying, the second one (and 3rd ATI try) was lying it’s ass off. Right connectors for DVI-I adaptation, *but*, still a DVI-D port. What this means is get over your still having fuctional SVGA monitors, throw them out/buy new stuff, because only ONE port of any ATI card is DVI-I (Integrated), the other is DVI-D (Digital, only, and thus will not support use of analog monitors). In short, screw ATI.

So that leaves us with NVidia….

Open the NVidia Control Panel. Left pane, under “3D Settings,” is “Manage 3D Settings”. Go there. Right pane has 2 tabs, global settings and program settings. Me? I like the default for the default, so I left global alone. Well, no, but I did change it back… Point, in “Program Settings” — either find Skyrim — Don’t think I could — or click “Add” and tell it the path to skyrim. *I forget* if I picked skyrimlauncher.exe or tesv.exe as skyrim. I do note upon adding it, it shows as “Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim” without my having altered it. Anywho, below all that mess is a (#2) “Specify the settings for this program” section. For my at least, I scroll ALL THE WAY DOWN. Very last option, only one that matters in my experience-thus-far — “Vertical Sync” — set it to “Force Off”.

That should do it… And if it doesn’t? Well, you tried something else. I swear they should just make Skyrim for Linux… There’s just something very linux about going thru a few hundred settings, hoping to find one that actually works, having your software fail constantly, fighting to make it work…

Anywho, didn’t give up on skyrim. But, still haven’t really played it. Should I not cast heals and let myself get beaten up by the first guy I find, until my armor skill levels, etc? Eh, one day I’ll play.

Turn off Vsync. On your graphic-card’s end…

  Pig

I’ve tried everything to fix the major problems. Nothing works…….. blue screen after bluscreen. This game is an unfinished crap.

Not everyone is a PC genius. I just wanted to play a game that I waited so long. They promissed a new engine a new etc etc…. Same shit as Oblivion. The Elder Scrolls is a great story….but please, sometimes quality is more important.

“Let the modders fix it, I rather collect the money for my unfinished work”….this is Bethesda.

  hashrh

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