Hi,

I installed and played TES5 Skyrim the past few days, but suddenly I recieved "error code 51" when I tryed to start the game.
I checked through all the programms listed here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

I have installed none of them except for Avast Antivirus, which I tryed to turn off.
I reinstalled steam & skyrim twice, the error still exists.

Before the error I didn't change any software on my computer.

Are there any suggestions to help me fix the problem?
Starting the game without the launcher is no good idea, since I cant make the video setup :-/

The Steam support does not seem to be able to solve the problem anytime soon, I didn't even get an answer to my support request...

Regards,
Co0n

Hello,

sorry, can't help you, except saying that I have exactly the same problem: the launcher started smoothly yesterday, but now does nothing. The game starts just fine if I run TESV.exe from the Explorer.

Any advice?

have you both verified cache files in steam?

I got an error stating that I may have played on another computer. Okay-not possible. So I locked steam to only my computer. Now it doesn't even give me that error. It did say something about a cloud problem before, and when I tried to restart Steam in offline mode it kept popping up a box saying it was finishing Steam cloud sync. It had better work dang it!

Patch Patch Patch, we all need a Patch, I spent 60 bucks on this game and what I got is a 6 hour continuous headache and a shiny new coaster and I got about 30 minutes of play, now all I get to do is turn the game on and watch the logo come up and then it freezes my whole pc up and I have to hard crash. I am soooooo glad I wasted another 60 dollars on a game that was not ready for the market. These reasons are why Guild Wars isnt putting out GW2 yet, they know they have fixes and plan on a smooth launch so no release date yet.

Thank you for the reply It was i) helpful and ii) quick. After verifying the cache and restarting my PC the launcher launched again. I only had to reconfigure the graphics settings.

No problem, glad your playing again it helped me once before as even the smallest file being deleted can cause massive problems. It just takes 1 missing dll file to stop the game from starting.