As the title says, I've been incredibly frustrated by this problem. Almost every time I pick things up from a dead body, or from chests etc. the game is frozen, and my character won't move. A few times I have just tried hitting every key and eventually I unfreeze, but other times I am stuck, frozen, for 15-20 minutes or more. I cant save, or find any way out. I just want to be able to keep playing the game.

Please tell me someone knows the answer to this? And thanks for any help.


Reinold

Basic Hardware Specification Chart (Empty so far)

Processor Manufacturer: AMD / Intel
Processor Name / Type: Athlon X2 / Pentium D / C2D / dual core / quad, etc.
Processor Speed: ?.? Ghz
Operating System / Service Pack: WindowsXP with SP #?, Win7, Vista ?
System RAM: ? ? GBs (MBs, if less than 1024 ? )
Video (GPU) Manufacturer: ATI / Nvidia (only those two are supported, PERIOD, so please answer which of them you have)
Video Card Model: (examples) Radeon HD 6670 / Geforce GTS 450
Video Card Driver Version: Catalyst ?.? / Nforce ??.??
. . (please use the numbers, and dates, *not* the word "latest")
Video Card onboard RAM: ? ? ? MBs
Sound Card Manufacturer:
Sound Card Driver IDs:
Sound Card Model:

(And this is only for the raw hardware & driver variations. Potential software conflicts are far more likely to be game play problems, and developers cannot test for all possible program loads.)

P. S. Please use every day business style paragraph breaks, punctuation, and spelling.

I would have included the specs of my system if they were relevant. I still took the time to provide them below.

Now I would appreciate any help with my issue. Thanks.

Reinold


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Basic Hardware Specification Chart (Empty so far)

Processor Manufacturer: Intel
Processor Name / Type: i52500k
Processor Speed: 3.3 Ghz
Operating System / Service Pack: Win7
System RAM: 16GBs)
Video (GPU) Manufacturer: ATI
Video Card Model: Radeon HD 6970 w2gb ram
Video Card Driver Version: Catalyst Ver: 8.796 (most current version available from MSI)

Video Card onboard RAM: 2GBs
Sound Card Manufacturer: MSI
Sound Card Driver IDs: Asus onboard sound
Sound Card Model: NA

(And this is only for the raw hardware & driver variations. Potential software conflicts are far more likely to be game play problems, and developers cannot test for all possible program loads.)

You've covered one thing I might have suggested, but couldn't, before knowing you had a Radeon. Instead of the very latest graphics driver, you might go the other way, to the one a couple of months ago. The Catalyst numbers are 11-10 for October 2011, 11-9 for September 2011, 11-8 for August. If you've seen both 11-9 and 11-10 not working in Skyrim, try 11-8.

Thanks for your help. I'll give that a try, but these drivers, direct from MSI have been in place for many months.

Ignore MSI. They don't get the upgrades often enough. Go direct to AMD.

Have tried that last two drivers with no change. But then, based on what I am seeing in the Skyrim PC forums, nearly everyone with the pc version is having issues. What an incredible disappointment.