I'm not sure why but I can't start a new game . The game starts up fine, I see the dragon and the start menu, and it finishes loading the new game but then nothing happens. I've tried twice now. The first time it went to a black screen after loading. I could hear music in the background, but nothing is showing on screen. I tried launching the game again, got past the loading screen, and then it went to a white screen after my monitor flickered a few times like it was changing resolutions (the flickering happens when I start different games too, that's normal). I could hear music, but nothing was showing on screen except all white. This time I opened the task manager and it said Skyrim had stopped responding. I tried re-installing DirectX and even re-downloaded it from Microsoft. Every time DirctX tries to install it says the version I have is the same or better than it is and it won't re-install.

Please help! Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated as I'm dying to play it after getting home an hour ago from the midnight release here. I went from Epic Happiness to Epic Sadness .

Here's my specs:

Win 7 Pro x64
Intel Quad Core i7 920 @ 2.67 Ghz
4 Gig Ram
GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 2 Gigs of ram on the card
2 x 1 Terabyte drives

I just noticed I can upgrade my graphics drivers from 280.26 to 285.62 so I'm doing that now. I'll post in a minute if that fixes it, but from some of the other threads I'm seeing on the forums here I'm guessing that's not going to fix the problem. Perhaps a hotfix is in order?

I Found the problem. It's all in the AA and the Shadows (note I said AA and Not Anisotropic Filtering, AF I have maxed at 16 samples) . Also if I crank the shadows up over the High setting I get oddly colored boxes around some of the menus. I'm not sure if this is a problem resident to GeForce cards or not. I can crank EVERYTHING to MAX except for those two things. If I turn on AA at all, even with only 2 samples, I can't past the loading screens.

For everyone else having these kinds of problems, don't put shadows over "High" and don't turn on AA at all and your game will run smooth as glass.