1. Skyrim Crashes On Load

I've never needed a gamesas forum account before this. I've been around, but never actually needed one for any particular reason. So hello, and I'm sorry I have to start on such a negative note.I'm faced with a bit of a problem. The problem is that Skyrim crashes consistently at the same point in time, all the time. I've browsed the internet for fixes, and tried many of them to no avail. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Skyrim three times now, including mods, and nothing seems to work.

I've tried activating different sets of mods, and slowly activating them one by one to find one that may be broken, however just when I thought I had found the culprit, it began freezing again.Here's the deeper stuff.1) Launch Skyrim through the Skyrim Script Extender.2) Intro movie plays. Skip this.3) Main menu loads. Everything is working so far.4) Click new game.5) Alduin statue revolving on screen. Usually, the two 'intel' items that show up are the quote from 'The Dragonborn Comes' and the one about how dual-wielding will potentially double your offensive power at a price of being unable to block.6) Near the end of the 'load' cycle, CTD.

No errors, no other dialogue, just my desktop greeting me with a big, invisible trollface at how many times I've tried to get the game to work.(NOTE: I am unable to load any saves as they all seem to have mysteriously corrupted at around the same time as the crashes started happening post patch. I lost so much progress I quit and stopped trying to fix the game for a while.)I do have a rather extensive list of mods;tinypic (dot) com/r/2lcmhhk/5 (I can't post links yet.)(the ticked ones are the ones that are activated. The rest of them aren't.)I also have the ENBseries modifications included with the Skyrim Enhanced Shaders pack.My system is as follows:OS: Win7 Ultimate 32-bit (NT6.1, Build 7601)Lang: EnglishMobo: Gigabyte P55-UD3BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PGProcessor: Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.67GHz (4CPUs)Memory: 4096MB RAM (3.5G usable due to 32-bit restrictions)GFX: nVidia GeForce GTS 250 512MB (although DxDiag says approx.

Total memory is 2541MB, which I know for a fact is wrong.)Display Res.: 1920 x 1080 @ 59hzSound: 16bit, 44100khz (in accordance with a potential 'fix' that didn't work) on Realtek HD Audio.DirectX: 11Am I missing something here? Are there any known fixes?

Has anyone else had the same problem?I read that a lot of people are having problems with crashes, but most of them can get into the game on an older save or something like. I simply can't get into the game for a start.I've tried changing my sound.I've tried disabling AA and Filtering.I've tried uninstalls.I've tried disabling mods.I've tried Compatibility modes.I've tried.ini edits (but they've all been reset after my reinstall a couple of hours ago).All of my drivers are up to date.I've tried plenty of different ways to get Skyrim to work, but nothing has worked so far. Any help would be appreciated.TL;DR, I'm having CTD issues on load. (Also, if you've skipped the text and just read this, shame on you.)Posts: 3400 Joined: Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:06 am. My game ends up not loading after installing modssomething about the order makes steam have a hissyi have had to take it easy with skyrim 1.3 on mods & apply few, & apply them one at a timei havent tried to reinstall yet, but i have had to make steam resynch filesjust yesterday i had another code 51 error & instead of resynching i first restarted my system & then tried again - the game started & loadedi also have total system crash blue screens - what im trying now is to launch skyrim to the save loading menu, then shutting it down - & then start playing. I think with windows 7 this 'pre-loading' helps with memory crashesi could be totally wrong on this thomy only real use to you is to be able to say 'i know your pain' skyrim is totally cool, & yet unbelieveably unstable - its MADDENINGPosts: 3333 Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:35 pm. Until you get it working, take out the mods and get them as far away from the situation as possible.

No point in further complicating things until you at least have a stable base.Bets on solution: When you uninstall (and do do that one more time), afterwards go into your Program files(x86)SteamSteamappsCommonSkyrim folder and after looking at what files are left over and acknowledging they are why you are suffering from all of this: Nuke that folder whole sale and let the game genuinely install fresh.Posts: 3415 Joined: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:47 am. My game ends up not loading after installing modssomething about the order makes steam have a hissyi have had to take it easy with skyrim 1.3 on mods & apply few, & apply them one at a timei havent tried to reinstall yet, but i have had to make steam resynch filesjust yesterday i had another code 51 error & instead of resynching i first restarted my system & then tried again - the game started & loadedi also have total system crash blue screens - what im trying now is to launch skyrim to the save loading menu, then shutting it down - & then start playing. I think with windows 7 this 'pre-loading' helps with memory crashesi could be totally wrong on this thomy only real use to you is to be able to say 'i know your pain' skyrim is totally cool, & yet unbelieveably unstable - its MADDENINGI haven't actually had any Steam errors, nor BSODs, so perhaps your problem is more serious than mine is. Until you get it working, take out the mods and get them as far away from the situation as possible. No point in further complicating things until you at least have a stable base.Bets on solution: When you uninstall (and do do that one more time), afterwards go into your Program files(x86)SteamSteamappsCommonSkyrim folder and after looking at what files are left over and acknowledging they are why you are suffering from all of this: Nuke that folder whole sale and let the game genuinely install fresh.When I've done the uninstalls and reinstalls, I have actually looked at the left over files. I also nuked them afterwards and let the game do a fresh install in that location.

I know that it's probably my mod files doing this, but I want to know why. Skyrim ran fine for a while with plenty of mods installed, but after I stopped playing for a week or so I came back and nothing worked. I didn't get time last night to try Skyrim without any mods loaded, however I will try it later to see if Skyrim wants to run without any mods installed.

Logic says of course it will, but then what's causing the conflicts? Most of my mods are texture replacers, with only a few actually changing the game (e.g. JaySuS Swords, SkyUI, Better Sorting, Categorized Fav. Menu).Posts: 3357 Joined: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:32 am.

The 'vanilla' game can be fine in the 'UAC' protected folder.The moded game of Skyrim is NOT good to have in program files. There are good guides on moving Steam. I had to move steam out of (x86) because mods don't work.Program Files (x86) is on 64-bit, no? I'm running a 32-bit system (not my choice, I would rather have 64-bit) not that it should make much difference, but I might look around at perhaps moving my Steam folder out of Program Files and say onto the root C: directory.What problems were you having before you moved Steam? Was the game crashing?

What exactly did moving steam solve? I just need details to try and work this out. If you were experiencing CTD's on Load/New Game or just spontaneously throughout gameplay then I'll give it a shot.Also, I'm going to try running Skyrim with only the following mods enabled: Better Sorting, SkyUI and TESV Acceleration Layer, with ENBSeries loaded by default (I don't really want to stuff around with those files atm).EDIT: Skyrim worked fine with only those three mods activated. It might look worse graphically than it should, but at least it's playable. However, I still want to know what's happened to other people, and if there is a fix for my problem so I can use most of my mods instead of just three of them at a time. Thanks for the help so farPosts: 3431 Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:36 am. Aye, selectively re-activating mods and testing for stability will get you on track for sure.

Btw my only reason for ever moving a game's folder out of steam was to shift it from my raid0 over to my SSD for load time purposes. Sure with vista there were some annoyances user access wise for editing game folders but at this point I haven't encountered anything like that. Oh and perhaps really old games that can't take a 255 character path to files it needs.Posts: 3370 Joined: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:03 pm. Aye, selectively re-activating mods and testing for stability will get you on track for sure. Btw my only reason for ever moving a game's folder out of steam was to shift it from my raid0 over to my SSD for load time purposes.

Sure with vista there were some annoyances user access wise for editing game folders but at this point I haven't encountered anything like that. Oh and perhaps really old games that can't take a 255 character path to files it needs.Yeah, I'm only going to use a couple of mods for the time being. I'll manage without x2048 textures for a while xDAlthough, I have tried selectively reactivating mods before, and once I thought I'd found the mod that was causing problems and deactivated it again, they started happening not too long afterwards. Vista would be a pain in the royal behind with its version of UAC. At least W7 makes things a teeny tiny bit easier.

To clarify.My game worked great.I wanted to start adding Mods, Thing is i will only use Wrye Bash to install mods. Bash would not work with Steam and Skyrim in the 'program Files' directory.

Once i moved Steam/Skyrim to C:GamesSteam. Bash started working.Installed thru Bash:Bain Packages:-spoiler goes here-Thing is, using Bash you can install and Uninstall with a mouse click. Steep learning curve, but well worth it in the end. You can see conflicts you never knew about.I use Nexus Mod Manager to install my mods. I've heard some things about Bash, but I've never actually used it. For now however, I'm content with being able to play Skyrim againPosts: 3168 Joined: Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:13 am.

So, to update my progress with getting the mods to work;It seems that an update I did, whether to a mod that was causing errors or to ENBSeries itself, has fixed the issues I was having. I have a feeling that if it was a mod, it was the Skyrim HD 2k v1.3 texture set, as I am now running v1.4 of the mod and it is working fine. If not the mod, updating from ENBSeries 0.096 to 0.102 may have fixed the issue.Either way, I'm now running all of the mods that I was in the first place.

Thanks for the help guys. If need be, you can continue discussing CTD's and errors here, although 1) there's probably a better thread to do it in and 2) the new patch is supposed to fix many of the CTD errors people have had, so fingers crossed.EDIT: I'm now running all of my mods bar one, as I no longer use the required mod (Immersive Environment 1.4, as I am using ENBseries mods as opposed to FXAA PPI), but it's there if I ever decide to switch back for any reason. This gives me a total of 42 working mods, patches and separate updates included.Posts: 3493 Joined: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:05 amDisplay posts from previous: Sort.

Skyrim Crashes On Load

Although I thought the Silent Pro line was better, in general CM is not known for quality PSUs. It may not be the problem (you're probably not pulling 300W out of it), but stability issues are often caused by poor quality power.Does your Windows Event Viewer give any indications as to the cause of the crashing?Not at all, it crashes down to the desktop and nothing else happens. I haven't had any problems with any other games playing l4d2, hawken, amnesia, half life 2. No problems what so ever on my PSU. Super quiet and reliable thus far.

A couple of things:Are you crashing on startup, or after you've loaded a game? In Skyrim, a mod that you've uninstalled can still be causing your game to crash if you're loading a save that previously utilized it. The only sure fix is starting a new game or loading a save from before the mod was installed.Have you messed with any of the config settings in the.ini? There are tons of guides online that have you change things that can cause your game to crash. If you have, go to My DocumentsMy GamesSkyrim and move or rename Skyrim.ini and Skyrimprefs.ini. Restart Skyrim and it'll create new ones with default settings.You may be missing game files or they have become corrupted. Right click on the game in your steam library and go propertieslocal filesverify game cache.

It'll check for any missing files and reinstall them. A couple of things:Are you crashing on startup, or after you've loaded a game? In Skyrim, a mod that you've uninstalled can still be causing your game to crash if you're loading a save that previously utilized it.

The only sure fix is starting a new game or loading a save from before the mod was installed.Have you messed with any of the config settings in the.ini? There are tons of guides online that have you change things that can cause your game to crash. If you have, go to My DocumentsMy GamesSkyrim and move or rename Skyrim.ini and Skyrimprefs.ini.

Restart Skyrim and it'll create new ones with default settings.You may be missing game files or they have become corrupted. Right click on the game in your steam library and go propertieslocal filesverify game cache. It'll check for any missing files and reinstall them.I tried new games and it plays for a few seconds and crashes, I have attempted to verify the game cache and it has said it failed to validate a file and will be reacquired, will it fix it on its own?