z4m0lx3s Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 Ok, I've been trying to figure this one out for a while, but I'm stumped. I played Skyrim, FO3 and Oblivion on my laptop. Acer 3830TG w/ Core i3 2310, GT540m running Win7 Ultimate 64Bit, latest drivers, latest patches. I had almost no crashes after at least 200h combined game play on this laptop, while my Skyrim savegame has 150h, my Oblivion savegame has 100h and FO3 about 50h since I played them on other laptops too. I recently upgraded the video card in my desktop, and I wanted to move my gaming on it. It's a Phenom2 X4 945 and Geforce GTX660, upgraded from a Radeon HD4890, running Win 7 Ultimate 32Bit. I removed the ATI drivers in safe mode and did a clean install of the Nvidia drivers. I installed Skyrim in exactly the same way as on the laptop. But I cannot play my Skyrim savegame for more than 5 minutes before it CTDs.I even tried older savegames, same deal. Up to now it's pointing to a faulty video card, bad drivers, etc. But I started a new savegame in Skyrim, and it's running perfectly. I have about 6 hours in it, and it did not crash once... The only difference is that the desktop Skyrim install is fresh, and is running only the current mods I use. Whereas the laptop Skyrim install had mods that were removed, but when you look in the mod list they are both identical. However on the first try If you're still with me, any ideas?
z4m0lx3s Posted January 25, 2013 Author Posted January 25, 2013 Oops... Got a crash on this savegame too. It's got to be either the new card or the drivers. Edit: I think I figured it out... When I removed the Radeon drivers, I also removed the chipset drivers. I reinstalled them, and they added a Northbridge filter driver for the AMD 780g in the motherboard. I played another 1h of Skyrim just fine, but this time of the original savegame that was crashing within a few minutes.
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