Win 10 Anniversary update + Skyrim

[loopie]

Hi all

 

So I caved in about 5 days ago and got Win 10 anniversary update, and it borked my games, skyrim the most of all. I'm sure part of it has to do with it being barely playable with all the mods I had, but still, very dissapointed with it since my transition from Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit to Win 10 Home Edition 64 bit was actually very smooth.

 

In GW2, whenever I switch maps or waypoint far enough to cause the game to load, the game flickers 2-3 times to desktop as if it was alt-tabbing, then pops back to normal game window and continues, nothing major, just an annoyance. I suspect it is one and the same bug in Skyrim, except there is no alt-tabbing in full screen skyrim, so when it wants to "flicker" to desktop, it crashes instead. Having similar issues in other games with results in between the 2 extremes I mentioned.

 

In addition, when I do manage to make it into the game of Skyrim, I get a ton of artifacts, terrain miscolorations, very heavy stutter and then CTD. This, I suspect is a sperate bug from the "desktop flickering" described above.

 

So I spent maybe 20+ hours total googling, readin MS forums, game forums, re-installing drivers, tweaking registry, enabling / disabling stuff in Win 10, etc. etc. All to no avail.

 

Since I bought a brand new RX 480 /w 8 gigs, which should be arriving sometime next week, I decided to uninstall Skyrim. Did a complete uninstall, cleaned all the leftovers (including registry) and I'll give it another go after my new GPU arrives. I suspect this will make a big difference since I'm going from a Radeon 7870 2 gigs, to a factory OCd XFX RX 480 with 8 gigs of vram, which is another thing I'm kind of looking for some feedback about.

 

But in the meantime, I was wondering what your guys experiences are with the latest Win 10 and your games, and of course, especially, heavily modded Skyrim. And if anyone does find a working solution to any of the glitches this update caused them, well, it'd be great if you could let us know.

 

Thanks !

 

 

 

[Prometeus5879]

I've updated last firday (12/8). So far I've had no special issuess appart from getting rid of microsoft's telemetry once again. I've only played a few games so far, but tabbing out of skyrim is no problem.

[loopie]

I've updated last firday (12/8). So far I've had no special issuess appart from getting rid of microsoft's telemetry once again. I've only played a few games so far, but tabbing out of skyrim is no problem.

 

 

Hmmm

 

Everytime I tab the game crashes, not just crashes, it completely freezes up on my screen thus forcing me to hard boot my comp, can't get rid of it even via task and process manager, been like this since the game 1st came out and I'm on my 3rd rig now, different mobos, HDs, SSDs, OSes, CPUs, GPUs, everything down to monitors, keayboards and mice.

 

I can alt-tab if I play in windowed mode, but then it takes such a gigantic performance hit that I have to go back to full screen in order to be able to play.

 

Also, the Win 10 issues are not just limited to me, many, many people are reporting them, especially on microsoft support boards. I just thought I would ask here since this is the worst and heaviest affected game I have.

 

[Comrade Isbariya]

The fact that M$ gave away Win10 for free should have made you suspicious in the first place.  

 

But seriously, mine (Win10 Pro) is doing fine, all the games work with no exception. I'm using a dual boot and use Windows 7 for gaming though.

 

You won't have too much fun with your new graphics playing Skyrim under Windows 10 anyway. It doesn't allow more than 4GB of vRam on directX9 games, and since Skyrim is one you're only wasting resources if you don't play it on WIn7. (Given that you use ENBs and all that fancy stuff) 

[pinky6225]

 

I've updated last firday (12/8). So far I've had no special issuess appart from getting rid of microsoft's telemetry once again. I've only played a few games so far, but tabbing out of skyrim is no problem.

 

 

Hmmm

 

Everytime I tab the game crashes, not just crashes, it completely freezes up on my screen thus forcing me to hard boot my comp, can't get rid of it even via task and process manager, been like this since the game 1st came out and I'm on my 3rd rig now, different mobos, HDs, SSDs, OSes, CPUs, GPUs, everything down to monitors, keayboards and mice.

 

I can alt-tab if I play in windowed mode, but then it takes such a gigantic performance hit that I have to go back to full screen in order to be able to play.

 

Also, the Win 10 issues are not just limited to me, many, many people are reporting them, especially on microsoft support boards. I just thought I would ask here since this is the worst and heaviest affected game I have.

 

 

Try setting the game to windowed mode in the skyrim launcher settings and anywhere else you have set to full screen and then enable the bordless fullscreen in the ENBlocal.ini

 

I've found that win10 doesn't like giving you back the desk top from a full screened game on a couple of games but with skyrim atleast i've found that work around.

 

Tbh other than the win10 dx9 limit to my enb memory setting and the above i've not found win10 to be a problem

 

[loopie]

The fact that M$ gave away Win10 for free should have made you suspicious in the first place.  

 

But seriously, mine (Win10 Pro) is doing fine, all the games work with no exception. I'm using a dual boot and use Windows 7 for gaming though.

 

You won't have too much fun with your new graphics playing Skyrim under Windows 10 anyway. It doesn't allow more than 4GB of vRam on directX9 games, and since Skyrim is one you're only wasting resources if you don't play it on WIn7. (Given that you use ENBs and all that fancy stuff) 

 

I read somewhere that this is one of the things this update was supposed to address, hence I jumped on it, could be wrong though, or maybe that part didn't go through or doesn't work yet. I'd like to avoid dual booting to Win 7 if possible, modding skyrim is enough headaches as is.

[redachandra]

Did you try to reinstall after the update?

I do this at work, do the update, and reinstall , i made it for my pc either^^

[DaXmAn]

Win 10 is evil shit, especially for older software... 

[loopie]

Did you try to reinstall after the update?

I do this at work, do the update, and reinstall , i made it for my pc either^^

 

Not yet, due to work and life schedule it takes me about a week to reinstall fully modded and stable Skyrim and my new GPU will be arriving Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll re-install when it gets here.

 

if it comes to the worst I'll just deal with it for the time. The 64 bit, DX11 based client isn't that far away which should get rid of the memory issue, just hope it doesn't break mods because unmodded its just not worth touching anymore, even if it looks prettier.

 

But, back to the matter at hand, I have just been back on the Overwatch and Battlefield forums, still no solutions to the Win 10 update problems there either. Blizzard has a work around that is effective for some people on some systems, and AMD cards seem to be a lot better with this then Nvidia (due to Nvidia choosing to willfully / intentionally ignore the DX9 / 4GB memory issues), so will see how it goes. From the AMD boards I gathered there is actually a good possibility that AMD will come out with some sort of a work around via driver updates, but it may be a long ways off.

 

I'm surprised I am the only one here posting about this, if anyone starts to look with a bit more detail and come up with stuff like this for starters https://www.google.com/search?as_q=game+crashes&as_epq=windows+10+anniversary&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=w&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=  then use other strings and filters and multiply it accordingly, and then check the microsoft support forums, its pretty staggering. And I filtered this by timeline only, limited to 1 week.