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Skyrim crash to desktop. Mods?

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#1 ·
Hey, I downloaded Skyrim off steam on release and have played around 5-6 hours. When i initially played the game, it may have crashed only twice but I did get a lot of missing textures. However, I heard a lot about some amazing mods on skyrimnexus and downloaded a bunch and tweaked the ini for better water reflections and tree shadows.

Since then, its been crashing to desktop every 2 minutes. I got an update from steam today, i changed the audio setting to 44hz or whatever it was, playing at stock clocks, using the game launcher and not through steam, and lowered the video settings from ultra to high, and installed a program called large address aware. Its made a difference, instead of crashing every 2 minutes its 15 minutes
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. Any suggestion would be helpful, I am considering re-installing skyrim, but really don't want to have to go through all that.

Oh ya, drivers are up to date

Thanks,
 
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#2 ·
Make sure nothing is running in the background while playing Skyrim. The Large Address Aware made a night and day difference for me. Have you tried playing in Windowed mode?

If you are re-installing Skyrim, copy your Skyrim saved folder to another file and move it back once you are done re-installing.
 
#3 ·
Make sure one mod didn't make a folder in the same as another, just in a different place. I was crashing but realized I had two folders named "terrain" so I deleted one of them and so far so good.

Also, make sure you verify the integrity of cache files and whatnot through Steam.
 
#6 ·
Guys, I was just checking the S.T.E.P. mod on SkyrimNexus (the one that's basically a HUGE guide to properly modding Skyrim), and there was a quote put up here after the latest Steam patch for Skyrim:
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By Readykill: For those having issues launching today it is caused by the patch that steam applied today (it's not a Bethesda patch). It is basically an extra thigh DRM that will not allow you to play an edited TESV.exe, which in turn will not allow you to enable more than 2gb ram with LAA.

However, as a work around for anyone who installed prior to today, on windows 7 navigate to your TESV.exe right click on it, click "Restore Previous Versions" copy the old version that comes up and save it somewhere safe in case it gets written over again in the future, then copy and paste it back into your Skyrim folder and click over-write. Then run LAA again. I also clicked my TESV to be Read-Only so it shouldn't get over-written in the future. Hopefully Bethesda will give us another means to increase memory in a future patch, in the mean time it looks like this hack is the only way to play with the increased textures!!
So it's the 4GB enabler, which you supposedly need to run most of these high resolution texture mods. For some reason, when I try to restore my TESV.exe to a previous version, it says none are available. Could anyone with W7 64bit and the older TESV.exe be kind enough to upload theirs? Thanks!
 
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Originally Posted by krown View Post

Hey, I restored it to a previous version (Nov, 12) just going to test it to see if it works. If you can tell me how to upload it, I can help you out. Hopefully by tonight if not tomorrow.
If you could just put in a zip/rar/7z file, then upload it to any file sharing site of your choice, I'd be very grateful
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. Hopefully it works! Somebody posted an alternative launcher in the official Skyrim thread, but it doesn't have any endorsements or anything yet so I haven't tried it, but here's the post in case the other method doesn't work anyway: http://www.overclock.net/t/887299/official-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-information-and-discussion-thread/2030#post_15743219
 
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Originally Posted by Arnotts View Post

Yep it's working perfectly again
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. Thanks krown.
Nah my knowledge of house music extends about as far as Feed Me and Deadmau5
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. I got into Feed Me because I love drum n bass, and he's also Spor!
yeah no worries, if you like deamau5 give a listen to skrillex (signed to Mau5trap), I think its more than likely you will like him and Wolfgang Gartner as well. As for french house try listening to Justice, maybe some breakbot and xinobi thats if you like the daft punk style of house. Give me a pm if you want more, I'm a house junkie
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#21 ·
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Skyrim 4GB
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by MonochromeWench (the.wench@wenchy.net)

Skyrim4GB is a tool to load SKyrin with the Large Address Aware
executable flag set so the entire 4GB Virtual Memory Address Space can be used
by the game.

This is my 'official' port of my tool that did the same to Fallout NV.

Skyrim4GB is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
version 2.1. Read the included lgpl-2.1.txt for the terms. Source code is included
with the package. Original binaries compiled using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

Skyrim4GB additionally hooks and replaces the Windows GetTickCount() function that
may improve stuttering.

Running

First, make sure Steam is running. Then run Skyrim4GB.exe to launch the game!
You don't even need it in the games directory, just make sure skyrim4gb.exe and
skyrim4gb_helper.dll are together.

If your version of Skyrim is not the standard version with the
SteamAppID of 72850 you need to run Skyrim4gb.exe and specify the actual
SteamAppID on the command line. Example: Skyrim4gb.exe 72850

Technical Details

Read the included readme for details on how it works.
http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013

Our savior has arrived.
 
#24 ·
Wholeeo have you been able to get that working?
 
#25 ·
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Originally Posted by krown View Post

Here you go, played for about 20 minutes without any crashes. Will test more extensively later tonight.
http://www.mediafire.com/?a4xq23swjbt70pa
Hi, I did as instructed, but not only does it not work, my old saves won't play because its based on the later TESV. How do I reverse this, i.e. get the latest update back? Putting steam on auto update is doing nothing and the right click restore previous version gives nothing as well.

Help please
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