Reinstalled Skyrim but now it won't run?!

Post » Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:14 pm

Ok so I bought skyrim when it came out played it and had a lot of fun, had to run it from the .exe because steam has caused every computer i have ever installed it on to crash and make the games unplayable.

Today I reinstalled and had to sit through the patching process because I live in South Australia and my internet is crap, that finished.

I go to play the game and it tells me I need to be running steam... sigh, ok let's try this. maybe it will finally be stable... 15 minutes into the game and it crashes!

I'm not running any mods so it can't be that, I haven't changed any of my pc hardware so it can't be that, I have more than enough space on my hard drives but it won't run for more than 15 minutes!

I played and finished this game and enjoyed the hell out of it but now I'm sitting here with a coaster instead of a playable game! Why am I being forced to use a substandard and unstable launching platform?

I hope someone from gamesas reads this as I love your games and have bought each and everyone of them but why is this game that I paid good money for no longer playable?

Yours in exasperation,
James Dowell
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Post » Sat Feb 02, 2013 10:47 pm

1. sure no mods? brand new game? new save?
2. updated to latest version?

i agree though. Skyrim is supposed to be an offline game and now we have to install that spyware called steam. Hope bethesda isnt stupid to make us use steam for tes6 because right now, i feel that those pirated skyrim people are having a blast while we steam users have to deal with all the crap...
steam caused skyrim not to launch once. It broke my game...
had to do a reinstall lol
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Post » Sat Feb 02, 2013 6:30 pm

Fresh install, no mods at all, no old saves, and updated to latest version.
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Post » Sun Feb 03, 2013 6:29 am

It's a technical hiccup, not really Bethesdas fault. Calm down and let's not get on a soapbox just because you're having what appears to be a hardware issue.

It may very well be Steam. If you bought it through Steam, the service might purely be being a bugger.
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Post » Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:36 pm

Fresh install, no mods at all, no old saves, and updated to latest version.

like what he-who-remains said, probably a steam hiccup but also bethesda's crappy engine that caused ctd.
Have you considered your drivers updated? By crashing you mean a Crash to desktop or freeze then crash? What gpu are you using. CPU too.
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Post » Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:32 pm

just because you're having what appears to be a hardware issue.
If it ran fine when I first bought it why would it now be a hardware issue?


If you bought it through Steam
I said in my post that I own the DVD. Did you even read it?
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Tiffany Holmes
 
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Post » Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:19 pm

Try uninstalling Steam entirely and re-install in a newly created folder on your main hard drive.

I personally created a "Games" folder outside of Program Files and Program Files (x86) just for the sake of not having to deal with the Windows UAC and what have you. I haven't had a problem with any game using this method (so far).
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Post » Sun Feb 03, 2013 4:24 am


If it ran fine when I first bought it why would it now be a hardware issue?



I said in my post that I own the DVD. Did you even read it?

Then it's definitely hardware related. Had the same issue with Morrowind on occasion once upon a time. Try uninstalling it and giving it another go, make sure steam is enablde since that seems to be a thing for it.
If the old tried and true method of uninstalling and reinstalling doesnt work, then I have blown my load on technical know-how.
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Post » Sat Feb 02, 2013 5:02 pm

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M (current driver)
Intel core i7-2630qm cpu @ 2GHz
8gb ram
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Post » Sun Feb 03, 2013 6:47 am

What you got on the DVD is pretty much what you would've downloaded from Steam, if you had bought it from there.

Do a cache verification on your game's files, just in case something is missing.

By the way, this belongs to Technical Support, not General Discussion. I expect the thread to be moved there shortly.
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Euan
 
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Post » Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:06 pm

The cache is verified, It's all there I just can't run for longer than 15 minutes with steam.
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Post » Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:12 am

I am currently doing a re-install as suggested both of steam and skyrim. I will follow up after this is complete.
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