So I get a weird bug while running Skyrim with Dawngaurd. My Desktop curser is visable, and launches programs on my desktop and start menue while playing Skyrim.

It loads so many programs that I end up with a blue screen of death.

I've checked my mouse software, no setting seems to change the issues (Admin and other such setting), and even happens when no mouse software is running. Seems to only happen wene Dawngaurd is selected on in the mods list.

Seriously, Bethesda, WTF, this can damage people's hardware.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Disable visual themes in the compatibility tab for the TESV.exe.

Also, if you're getting a BSoD, then your issues aren't dealing with loading a lot of programs. You've either got a driver issue, DirectX issue, hardware failure, or something of that nature.

Just doing the visual themes on TESV.exe seemed to fix the issues.

The BSod is none of those issues, I have media files on my computer from Hi Def commercials and movie (I'm a media animator) that if I try to launch on anythingthing other then a 128gig render box, will send my computer (Core i7, 16gigs Ram, 1gig 560 nvidia) straight into a fatal hardware crash.

Last crash all 7 cores where 100% and Ram usage was 100%, my drives meter was going balistic, and my 560 shut down (over heated by to many grafics programs opened) switched to a 7800 onboard GPU, I had Maya, 3dStudio max, and 1/2 my adobe production suite open and attempting to load files, 6 browsers open (all locked up and not functioning), Steam attempting to install games and launch them. The screen flashed blue real quick with text, then the entire PC shut down. I'm not a software expert, but I did get certified on PC hardware, if too many programs are open hardware becomes taxed and can fail when working past its limits.

I couldn't read the text, it flashed too quick to tell what exactly caused the crash. But with so many systems maxed out and my GPU card arleady shut down, I can take my pick.

Although, I can say the a simular crash can occure when to many games are luanched and running at the same time (Got the same crash on a PC with a quad q6600, 4 gigs ram, and a 9800GT running 7-10 windows of Aion running (It was during an event to keep some guildies logged into the game).

You can disable the auto-restart on a Stop error in the recovery options of the Properties window for the (My )Computer icon. Generally, if too many programs are open, the system just freezes for a while as the hardware plays catch up. I've never had a BSoD from doing that. Just 30 minutes, or more, of the system being frozen as it processed everything. A BSoD means something is really wrong, usually. If you can catch the error and report back, it'd help immensely.

Its flashes really fast, and this is my work PC as well as my gaming PC, So I'm not planning on attemtping to reproduce it. But, to wager a guess, the error has nothing to do with Skyrim itself, more of the fact that the mouse is loading programs and files behind Skyrim. I'm under the impression I'm attempting to load more data into my RAM then its capible (multiple programs trying to load gigabytes worth of data all at the same time) is causing a memory fault, sending me to the blue screen, then a overheating CPU shuts down. I alt tabbed out when the grafics got blurry and stopped loading (after the card switched to the onboard).

But, thats a profesional guess. The computer runs to slow and is way to backed up to try to open anything else, i.e. diagnostic software, C++ debugger, Program Manager

Disable the auto-restart anyways, it makes debugging issues much easier.

Also, you may want to run memtest to check to make sure your RAM is not dying on you.

I already did both, RAM looks good and I've had auto restart disabled. Thanks for your help, now I'm off to enjoy Dawngaurd.