I'm only getting crashes per 2 hours' play, which is well within my normal game tolerance. However, when it crashes I get a "runtime error" - I can't remember the full message, but it's something C-related. Has anyone else been getting this popup after it crashes to desktop?

Normally with me, that indicates a driver issue, but in that case the game wouldn't load up at all, whereas Skyrim's fine for up to 2 hours.

I haven't yet tried disabling autosave.

This also has worked for me so far, played for about 2 hours and even walked/run up entire 7000 steps to High Hrgothar or whatever its called. Besides the bugs, this game really is epic and of course most of the bugs will be fixed over time. Even Oblivion had many bugs when it first launched.

http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/457194-skyrim-closes-wno-error-or-ctd/page__view__findpost__p__3785703

This post on the nexus forums suggests it's shutting itself down.

I forgot to mention that I had did this as well.

sorry to hear that, ive used both headste and 5.1 surround logitech with the sound fix and the game worked fine for me after. i also reloaded the most recent version of my videocard too which i already had but idk if that actualy masde any difference

yo every bethesda game has the worst issues when it launches and i dont find that legit they need to just not release without proper testing and beta. ive called support on every bethesda game ive bought since oblivion because i had launch problems at start, i just think thats so sloppy after everything they've put into these amazing games

I have a save game where I can consistently repeat the crash. The context:

- I'm outside, with Lydia as a follower.

- I have several quests started. I've killed the first dragon and gotten its power, along with that first shout from Bleak Falls and used it a couple of times. I have not been to the greybeards yet.

- According to the map, I'm slightly northwest / up from the Rannveig's Fast marker.

- At the start of the loaded game, I'm near the side of a mountain and a dragon is circling above the mountain. If I move forward about 10 steps and look up at the dragon, I can literally count down from 3... 2... 1 and crash - every single time.

- If I don't move and wait for the dragon to circle around a bit more, it doesn't crash right away and I can actually get pretty close to him and even start fighting him, but it crashes at various points of that battle, usually right after he takes off after fighting on the ground for a bit.

- The dragon's name is "Dragon" (generic creator rather than a named one like the first dragon).

I've tried windowed mode, I've tried reducing effects down from Ultra to High, also down to Low, I've tried setting the sound to 24 bit 44.1k, I've turned off Steam in-game community, I've tried the LAA 4GB patcher, I've updated to the latest beta drivers, installed all system updates, rebooted, closed all other apps, and a couple of other things that I can't recall right now, but am still getting that same consistent crash.

Some other general specs and notes:
1. I'm redirecting the "skyrim" folder in Steam to my SSD (though switching back to the standard, non-redirected/linked data files still had the same results).
2. I'm running a single EVGA GTX 470 on one monitor at 1920x1200, Windows 7 64-bit, 12gb RAM with a pagefile on the same SSD drive.
3. I've had a few random crashes earlier in the game.
4. Whenever I Alt-Tab out of the game, and Alt-Tab back in, I have to do it twice. The first time just shows me the windowed frame with a black interior. If I Alt-Tab back to something else and then back to Skyrim, it goes properly back to full-screen mode.

Not sure if I can share my save game and have it work for anyone else if anyone else wants to try it? Send me a PM if you want to give it a go.

yea bonechill was where i had my constant crashes. i couldnt go 4 feet without it closing. but i tried window mode and it worked and i killed the drag and got the word lol. now im going to try going back to whiterun to see if it keeps doing it since it hadnt crashed at all in about 20 hours of gameplay except for when i went inside bonechill passage