Skyrim: Crash to desktop discussion

95% of my crashes happens when I'm in the thieves guild area. I just remember to save often when I'm there.

If you had the thing to make skyrim use more then 2gb, you should turn that off and if needed replace your skyrim.exe with the original one (can find thsi at nexus skyrim mods).

Steam did an update to not allow people to play skyrim without steam and editing the exe file (which is what that 2gb>>> did).

I started up skyrim after this update and it crashed every 10 seconds (after only crashing once in 64 hours). I just turned the 2GB>>> thing off and then replaced the .exe in steam/skyrim with the original one. Working fine for 2-3 hours after.

I've had about 5 crashes before patch and 1 afterwards.

I had a couple of crashes on launch day until I figured out the audio-hz setting. Since then zero crashes. I didn't even know there was a patch.

Well, I'm seeing very frequent crashes. Game ran pretty well originally, with only one or two crashes a night. Now, I'm level 25 and the crashes are occurring so frequently that it's pretty much unplayable at this point. Here's what I've tried:

1) I reset the sound quality to 44100 as pointed out by many others. This seems to have had no effect on the crash frequency.

2) I've verified I have the most recent drivers (catalyst 11.11) and application profiles (11.11 cap2)

3) I've applied the large address aware patch. However, after the last update it appears this no longer works and the game will not launch at all until modified back.

4) I've reinstalled Skyrim and verified local files.

Thus far, none of these have had any impact on the crashes. In case it helps (although I don't believe this problem is hardware related), these are the important bits of the system:

Win 7 64 Professional

Core I7 980X

Radeon 6990

Acer GD235Hz monitor (3, but running single screen 1920x1080 for Skyrim)

12G Ram

Asus Rampage III Gene

Corsair AX1200 power supply

revert to the old exe with the laa mod installed on. all u have to do is look at ur skyrim properties and previous versions then grab that exe back it up in case and copy and replace ur current exe with that. its not that hard

Just as an update, after applying using the latest method to make Skyrim use more than 2G of memory, I have seen no issues at all. This has completely fixed all my crashes and works with the latest update to Skyrim as well:

http://www.actiontrip.com/link.phtml?http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013

I had a couple of crashes on launch day until I figured out the audio-hz setting. Since then zero crashes. I didn't even know there was a patch.

fivex84

Before mods I had 0 crashes and now with mods I get about 3 per day. Its annoying but I just remember to save very often

I'm ready to play the game, crashes, I have to hesitate.

I usually get crashes when fast traveling or leaving a cave, mine, etc.

Happens rarely for me, like one time every 3-4 hours, but it's no biggie as the auto-save system is great.

I had my audio setting on 24-bit 48 khz (for the purpose of Blu-ray video playback) and has occasional CTDs in Whiterun. I changed the audio to 24-bit 44.1 khz and not only has the game stopped crashing, but the game ran considerably smoother. I would like to find out how I could have an application use an exclusive audio setting on Windows 7. I would be tired of constantly switching audio settings every time I watch a Blu-ray film and launch Skyrim.

Just used the Skyrim 4GB Ram thing, it much more stable and it only crashed after 4 hours instead of regulary.

999realthings

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Just used the Skyrim 4GB Ram thing, it much more stable and it only crashed after 4 hours instead of regulary.

Chris_53

the 4gig ram mod helped alot for me...

Happened to me all the time before th patch, to the point I took a break on it to focus on RAGE and Dead Island for a bit. Hopefully the patch means no more of that for me.

Help! I'm so pissed off. Who is ready to join me in a class action law suit against Bethesda? Too many players are reporting problems with Skyrim. No fixes, no Support, no updates and no playablitiy. I didn't give these a-holes my money to sit for hours on end trying to get the game to work. Why does it need Steam? Why? Why couldn't Bethesda just make it like Morrowind, or Oblivion? Why stupid Steam launcher. It doesn't work, and crashes games. This is ridiculous. So, if you want to join me in a class action suit against Bethesda targeting the playabliity of Skyrim, them please please contact me. I just want my money back - or a game that freaking works without crashing on start up and without stupid Steam. I haven't even been able to start a freaking game because it just crashes to desktop right when the guy in the cart talks to me. forget this. I'm so pissed off at Bethesda crapworks...I'm ready to play hardball with these idiots! Get rid of Steam, and make this game playable!!!!! And yes, I changed the sound, lowered my graphics, reset, reboot, re-installed, uninstalled, and NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING works.. law suit!!!!!!!!!!! You guys want your money back for the crap non-working, no fun, game Bethesda crapworks has produced. Contact me!!! I'm not being nice, and I shouldn't after reading all the problems people have been having. GET RID OF STEAM. MAKE THIS GAME PLAYABLE!!!!! My PC meets all the requirements and them some to play this game...crap, crap, crap!!!!Pinthar

Dammit, should have known this was a necro thread. These things are everywhere lately.

At least its one from a month ago and not a decade ago.

Dammit, should have known this was a necro thread. These things are everywhere lately. At least its one from a month ago and not a decade ago.SPYDER0416