Skyrim crashed (had to manually turn off PC) while saving, a : V

» Thu May 17, 2012 8:59 pm

Can someone help? I want to play...

» Thu May 17, 2012 11:12 am

Can you run the game by launching TESV.exe?

» Thu May 17, 2012 7:24 pm

Where is it located?

» Thu May 17, 2012 10:24 am

Where is it located?

\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim

» Thu May 17, 2012 8:06 am

Yes, that launches it. It's nice to know I can play, but I'd still like Steam achievements if possible.

As I typed this, Steam opened. :facepalm:

» Thu May 17, 2012 5:19 am

You might want to check the file integrity.

Right click the game in the games library --> Properties --> Local files --> Verify integrity of game cache.

» Thu May 17, 2012 11:04 am

"1 files failed to validate and will be reacquired"

» Thu May 17, 2012 3:21 pm

When I launched the game through Steam, it acted like it was new (detecting my hardware). I'm assuming this is because it had to re-download that other file?

I manually set to Ultra and my saves were there, so I guess I'm good.

» Thu May 17, 2012 7:23 am

That 1 file was probably the skyrimprefs.ini. Check your in-game settings as well, they've probably reverted back to their default values.

» Thu May 17, 2012 3:53 pm

Ok.

» Thu May 17, 2012 3:48 pm

I think you're right. My FOV was still 90, but I noticed my mouse sensitivity reverted.

» Thu May 17, 2012 5:36 pm

Yeah, all of my tweaks were gone too.

» Thu May 17, 2012 4:34 am

If I were you I wouldn't touch anything for a while and see how it goes, our knowledge of those tweaks is still very limited, who knows what settings can lead to instability.

» Thu May 17, 2012 4:32 pm

I changed all of my in-game settings and re-did my .ini tweaks, and it seems that I'm good. Thanks.

But would losing that file really be keeping Steam from opening?

Edit: now that I read your post, lol.

» Thu May 17, 2012 6:29 am

No, losing that file wouldn't keep the Steam client for opening. Something went wrong with your Steam client when you did a hard reset, probably your clientregistry.blob got somehow corrupted and Steam had to redownload a fresh copy, hence the long wait.

» Thu May 17, 2012 5:41 am

No, losing that file wouldn't keep the Steam client for opening. Something went wrong with your Steam client when you did a hard reset, probably your clientregistry.blob got somehow corrupted and Steam had to redownload a fresh copy, hence the long wait.

Ah, I see.

Really annoying with the crashes though. I've had to do at least one hard reset a day since Friday. Am I risking damaging anything by doing that?

» Thu May 17, 2012 9:13 am

Nope. Just make sure you make a backup of your prefs so you don't have to tweak the game manually if you'll ever need to check for the files integrity.

» Thu May 17, 2012 5:13 pm

Nope. Just make sure you make a backup of your prefs so you don't have to tweak the game manually if you'll ever need to check for the files integrity.

Alright, I'll put a backup on my desktop. Should I do it for the other .ini file too?

» Thu May 17, 2012 7:20 pm

I have yet to find out what's the real purpose of the Skyrim.ini file, but do it for that file too, just in case.

» Thu May 17, 2012 5:38 pm

I accidentally hit Cut :facepalm:

and now the little icon appears lighter. Great.

Nvm, fixed lol.

» Thu May 17, 2012 9:11 am

Hit CTRL-Z