Problems & Solutions

[HanPL]

From FAQ

 

 

Problem 1: The Elder Scroll V Skyrim Crashes, Crash at Menu, Crash on Launching, Crashing while Playing

 

Possible Solution 1: Disable all unnecessary background applications before starts the game, especially browser flash-based games. These heavily consume resources which can slow down your gaming experience and just to be sure that nothing is conflicting with the game. Try these steps to close hidden applications.

 

Click Start > Run > type msconfig > Click the Startup tab > Click Disable All button > Apply > OK, and restart your computer.

 

Possible Solution 2: Delete the all temporary files from your computer by donning this

Click Start > Run > type %temp% > OK > click Edit > Select All > Delete.

 

Possible Solution 3: Disable your anti-virus programs.

 

Possible Solution 4: Alt + Tab out of the game and check if there is any windows firewall or any other

 

Possible Solution 5: Download the latest version of your DirectX from Here.

 

Possible Solution 6: Update you Graphic Card Drivers, for NVidia Graphic Cards, try to download and install the NVidia 285.62 Driver Version and for AMD (ATI) Graphic Cards, try download and installing the AMD Catalyst 11.10.

 

Possible Solution 7: After the updating the graphic cards and didn’t solve the issue then try to rollback your video card by downloading an earlier version of your video card’s current driver.

 

Possible Solution 8: If you have a multi-core processor, try disabling them, it might do the trick!

 

Possible Solution 9: Last Ditch Solution: Update your BIOS (for advanced users only! If this is your first time doing this, be sure to read your motherboard documentation to avoid bricking your PC so try it at your own Risk!!!)

 

Problem 2: The Elder Scroll V Skyrim Crash to Desktop (CTD) and Blackscreen Fix

 

Possible Solution 1: Navigate to:

 

32bit – C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\The Elder Scroll V Skyrim.exe

 

64bit – C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Elder Scroll V Skyrim.exe

 

Right click on The Elder Scroll V Skyrim.exe and select “Run as Administrator”.

 

Possible Solution 2: Run the game in compatibility with Windows XP SP3.

 

Possible Solution 3: If game doesn’t launch, make sure you’re connected to the internet and try restarting Steam/your computer.

 

Possible Solution 4: Also, you can try to lower the game’s settings by disabling Vsync and multi-sampling and turning down environment detail levels.

 

Possible Solution 5: Try to Update Your Graphics Cards and Motherboard Drivers.

 

Possible Solution 6: Try different resolution options on your PC.

 

Possible Solution 7: For NVidia users, go into NVidia control panel and add The Elder Scroll V Skyrim.exe and make it "use NVidia GPU" to resolve this issue. And also try this, go to NVidia control panel and check if The Elder Scroll V Skyrim.exe has to instances. If there are two instances, set both to use your specific GPU instead of automatic.

 

Problem 3: The Elder Scroll V Skyrim has No Sound, Sound Error, Sound Problems and Sound Stuttering Fix

 

Possible Solution 1: Reduce Sound Acceleration by following these steps: Click Start>Run>Type dxdiag>Press Enter> Select the sound tab and Reduce Sound Acceleration

 

Possible Solution 2: Update your Sound Card Driver.

 

Possible Solution 3: If you are experiencing no sound or sound stuttering, run the game with Stereo Sound.

 

Possible Solution 4: If you're using Realtek audio drivers, updating to the latest available drivers usually solves the problems. In case you have Realtek sound card on board, you may experience disappearance of sound while playing the game. In that case try uninstalling the sound drivers and running the game on default sound drivers, see if you the sound comes back if it doesn’t try updating your sound card drivers. In case you are on Windows Vista you may want to change your audio channel to “Stereo”. In order to do that:

 

Go to Control Panel>Sound> in “Playback Options” tab, select the current device you use for your sound and select “Configur

 

[Mashi]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/11/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-tweaks-improve-graphics-disable-vsync-change-fov-and-more/ via bluesnews.com

 

Skyrim’s been out for less than a day, but fans have already gone through the .ini files looking for useful tweaks and fixes to the most common crashes and UI annoyances. We’ve compiled a selection of tweaks below from the Skyrim tweak thread on Reddit, the Skyrim forums and Tweak Guides

 

These fixes will let you disable mouse smoothing, customise your field of view, disable Vsync and correct a problem that causes crashes to desktop from the main menu screen just after you start the game. There are also a few .ini tweaks that make Skyrim look better.

 

Disable mouse smoothing

Go to your Steam Directory, then steamapps, common, skyrim and select Skyrim again. Create a backup of the SkyrimPrefs.ini file. Open the file, then scroll down to where it says [Controls] and find bMouseAcceleration=1. Change to bMouseAcceleration=0. Save, exit, and play This fix and the two below are from Skyrim Reddit, and are credited to “Dead man posting” on the Something Awful Forums.

 

Change field of view

Head to My Documents, select My Games, select Skyrim and then Skyrim again, then create a backup of the skyrim.ini file. Scroll down to [General] in the file and add fdefaultfov=XX (where XX is the field of view you want). Then save and exit.

 

Fix common crash to desktop problem

Access the Sound menu from the Control panel. In the playback tab, right click on speakers and select properties. Select the advanced tab on the new screen and select 24 bit, 44100Hz (Studio Quality) from the drop down menu. This fixed crashes for Owen last night.

 

Disable Vsync

Access the SkyrimPrefs.ini again and add iPresentInterval=0 to the bottom of the [Display] section. This can improve a sluggish framerate and eliminate instances of mouse lag. Thanks to Tweak Guides for this one.

 

Graphical tweaks

Curate on the Bethesda forums has highlighted a number of interesting variables in the SkyrimPrefs.ini file. Change the digit at the end of each line to 1 to turn the feature on, 0 to turn it off. Don’t forget to create a backup of the SkyrimPrefs.ini file just in case.

 

Interesting variables are as follows, in order of appearance in the .ini and showing their default settings.

bDoDepthOfField=1

bTreesReceiveShadows=0

bDrawLandShadows=0

bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1

bShowQuestMarkers=1

bShowCompass=1

bMouseAcceleration=1

fAutosaveEveryXMins=15.0000

 

Redditor Ryz also suggests changing iWaterReflectHeight=512 and iWaterReflectWidth=512 to 1024 and adding the following text to the SkyrimPrefs.ini to improve the quality of water reflections.

 

bUseWaterReflectionBlur=1

bReflectExplosions=1

iWaterBlurAmount=4

bAutoWaterSilhouetteReflections=0

bForceHighDetailReflections=1

 

per han's request and original thread NUKED!

 

Fair warning there seems to be a bug at least on my 560 with the new 285.79's

 

My GPU utilization is stuck at 100% until I reboot, and as soon as I use something that uses 3d acceleration it pegs it again. I recommend NOT using the 285.79 drivers unless there's good cause.

 

 

HardOCP info thread, including best card choices and drivers

Best driver fit:

Nvidia: 285.79 beta's

ATI: 11.10 Cats and 11.9 CAP4

 

See REF on HDCP for stats.

 

Ultra high with tweaks in this thread on the 285.79's and FXAA. 8AA/16AF with vsync disabled. ~84fps.

 

 

 

 

[LordJerle]

Mine's minimizing when I first start up, but it happens around the time Steam injects the community crap, so I'm thinking it's the same reason as Oblivion does it with X-fire. Just alt tab back in twice. One time to go to the game, another time to actually get in game. First time goes to a black screen, second time actually opens the game.

[Mashi]

You'll probably need the steam community stuff later for the script extender, so you could disable it for now. But if it's minimizing like that, you've got another problem trying to run an overlay.

 

 

[D_KNIGHT_PEN]

I keep getting this weird visual glitch when my game starts up. It looks almost like skeleton issues do in oblivion but with everything else. i can actually see the game visuals running normally in parts of my screen but everything else looks like its all trying to render in one point.

[HanPL]

I have similar problem from time to time.

Mostly near source of light/fire/water.

Something like my character shadow appear/render near that places.

not really a major bug but really annoying

[D_KNIGHT_PEN]

My problems isn't like that. when i start the game i can't even see my characters face when trying to create my character because the glitch causes these weird multicolored triangles to appear all pointing at the center of my screen.

[HanPL]

What graphic card you have ?

If ATI then it's normal that you get tons of glitches.

 

If Nvidia try downloading latest graphic card drivers.

[D_KNIGHT_PEN]

Mobile Intel® 965 express chipset is my graphics card. One of those integrated into laptops.

[Endiness]

Just updated to 285.79, but results are the same. There are a few spots with slowdowns to the mid 40s.

 

 

 

 

[sora3]

There are a couple of things I've noticed on my system so here goes.

 

Problem 1 - the sound is too quiet, I need to bump up the master volume very high!

Solution - Head into your Sound category in the Control Panel. In the properties menu of your speakers, go to Enhancements and check the Loudness Equilization option. It worked for me.

 

Problem 2 - At some point, the game crashes for no inexplicable reason.

Possible solution - turn off all Autosave options, including the Autosave at character wait. I think the engine is still a bit iffy on autosave so save often manually!

 

And always, update every driver to the latest one!

[demongoat]

There are a couple of things I've noticed on my system so here goes.

 

Problem 1 - the sound is too quiet' date=' I need to bump up the master volume very high!

Solution - Head into your Sound category in the Control Panel. In the properties menu of your speakers, go to Enhancements and check the Loudness Equilization option. It worked for me.

 

Problem 2 - At some point, the game crashes for no inexplicable reason.

Possible solution - turn off all Autosave options, including the Autosave at character wait. I think the engine is still a bit iffy on autosave so save often manually!

 

And always, update every driver to the latest one!

[/quote']

 

aww thought maybe they fixed autosave by now.. sheesh how many games have they had issues with it? that should have been a priority this time around.

[Mashi]

Just so you know, if your previous save is corrupt, it always makes a backup-save before overwriting. A very good thing imo.

[hoast]

Probelem - Esbern no voice/cant complete the quest "season unending"

 

Solution - Finde the file calle "Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa open it with oblivion mod manage and unpack it into the skyrim data folde.

[Mordyn]

Problem: Physic is weird in the game --> for example if I open a door and there are nearby objects, they fly over the air!

 

Solution: You probably disabled vsync in ini file... reactivate it. It seems physic in the game is dependent on fps, and if you have a fast computer (let's say something making the game running as fast as 100 fps), things begin to fly everywhere... vsync, by synchronizing fps with the screen frequency (often 60Hz) "hides" the problem.

 

And, this is the reason why Bethesda didn't make the option available ingame...

 

So, disabling vsync in any fast computer is NOT recommended (or you'll have to use fps limiter mods to solve the problem)

 

Hope it helps.

 

credit to http://anonym.to/http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1260165-physics-is-affected-by-framerate/

[Mordyn]

Problem: This game is killing my fps, even I have a high-end gpu! // I want to do some optimizations, so what can I downgrade in order to upgrade everything else? In a word, what is a big fps hitter in the game?

 

Solution: It seems that shadows are calculated by cpu, and not gpu, hence a big fps hit (basically, cpu is struggling to do something gpu could have done easily). So, turning shadow quality to low will give you a big fps boost, without that much of quality loss.

[Ryanhabs]

Y'all will probably hate me for this but after about 5 hours of play on ultra settings, I have had 0 problems so far. Only 5 hours though as I'm still trying to grind my way to rank 1 in Gundam 3 to unlock something.

[threeddd33]

I had to get a new vid card to play, couldn't even get through the intro movie. Does anyone know or have a Radeon HD 6850 or something similar to know if it'll work on this game fairly well?

[Mouse]

Should, since it runs very well with Ati Radeon HD 5650

[threeddd33]

Should' date=' since it runs very well with Ati Radeon HD 5650

[/quote']

 

Thanks a ton. Didn't want to get it here and be stuck with slo-mo intro again. It took me a half hour just to get to the beheading scene with my GT100.

[Ryanhabs]

Okay, so I came across my first issue with the game so far. On the quest, "the cursed tribe" a portion of the cave you have to pass through to get to the giant you need to kill is just flat out missing. A sort of fall through the world thing. Just interested if anyone else has seen the same thing or had a different experience with that quest.

[fluffmuffly]

HOLD IT!

 

When the steam forums got hacked, there was one person who saved everyone alot of time and money about the launching crash at startup.

 

Set your sound to cd quality not studio quality. It saved me having to get a new laptop and i didn't even need to update my ati graphics card which is up 11.5b patch.

[Mouse]

Sometimes Blood Dragons glitch and you do not get soul from them. Scales and bones yes, but no soul to absorb.

 

If you get cheated of a soul this way, you can use console to rectify the matter:

player.setav dragonsouls 1

[wunderbar]

HOLD IT!

 

When the steam forums got hacked' date=' there was one person who saved everyone alot of time and money about the launching crash at startup.

 

Set your sound to cd quality not studio quality. It saved me having to get a new laptop and i didn't even need to update my ati graphics card which is up 11.5b patch.

[/quote']

 

 

Actually, you can remain on Studio quality, it just has to be 41k, 24-bit. This is available on Studio Quality AND CD quality - I just studio and the game works just fine. Also, that crash has to do with the actual game sounds. If changing your Playback device audio quality doesn't work, you'll probably have to get better drivers for your sound card.

 

There's also a nasty bug that a lot of people are having where the game will black screen CTD, but also kill the graphics drivers (or bug em, not sure), and a hard reset will be required - happens on Vista, XP, even 7, too... nobody really knows how to fix it.

[fluffmuffly]

HOLD IT!

 

When the steam forums got hacked' date=' there was one person who saved everyone alot of time and money about the launching crash at startup.

 

Set your sound to cd quality not studio quality. It saved me having to get a new laptop and i didn't even need to update my ati graphics card which is up 11.5b patch.

[/quote']

 

 

Actually, you can remain on Studio quality, it just has to be 41k, 24-bit. This is available on Studio Quality AND CD quality - I just studio and the game works just fine. Also, that crash has to do with the actual game sounds. If changing your Playback device audio quality doesn't work, you'll probably have to get better drivers for your sound card.

 

There's also a nasty bug that a lot of people are having where the game will black screen CTD, but also kill the graphics drivers (or bug em, not sure), and a hard reset will be required - happens on Vista, XP, even 7, too... nobody really knows how to fix it.

 

 

 

I didn't know that, thank you.. although i still don't notice a difference in quality of sound for my laptop, cd or otherwise ^.^