Game Skyrim Forum

Hello am new in the forums, first i gotta say am from chile south america so dont expect a perfect english.
Skyrim is the most inmersive game i ever played, the potential of this game is unlimited i gotta admit i dowloaded flase first
to try the game , after playing 40 hours i decided to buy the game cause the developers deserve it in the false version i had some issues
with my setup:

I7 2600k overclocked from 3.4 to 4.2ghz
8 gb ram dd3 corsair vengance
2X Radeon 6950 2gb version in crossfire
Asus p8z68 motherboard

I had the issue of the sacaling in crossfire and some random desktop crashes.

Now when i bought the game i Installed windows 7 again , installed the last drivers of amd 12.2 catalyst and the game run smooth good
scaling, some strange issues , the flickering in the menu, but suddenly the game started to give me when i teleport to a city or some randome places
it can happens after playing 4 hours or playing 5 minutes, in the blue screen is refered to ati drivers ati. am really concerned about this issue , cause
i dont like the pc restart very often only when i teleport somewhere i really hope betheseda can release some patch for this because many of my friends with
almost the same setup are getting this.


It happens: when i telport to a city or random places, not evrytime happen befor and after using mods is the only game that causes bsod i play BF3 to and nothing

BSOD's indicate system errors. If the BSOD is stating driver error then re-install the graphics drivers. If you still get BSOD's then back off your overclock as its likley to be unstable and causing issues with the system.

There wont be a patch for this as its your system at fault not the game.

Like i said the only game that crashes the pc is skyrim, i play Battlefield 3 in maximum detail 1080p is much more demanding than skyrim, never get bsod or crash, i play crysis 1, crysis 2 never get bsod, its only when i play skyrim, something is incompatible because it trhow ati bsod, i know this is a great game but a last generation Game must have support for last generation stups, like crossfire

It doesnt matter what other games do, its completely irrelevant. BSOD's only happen when there is a system problem. Reinstall your graphics drivers, as your clearly stated the BSOD message indicated these were at fault. If you still BSOD then you have an unstable overclock thats causing a driver error and subsequent BSOD.

Skyrim is more demanding on video memory than anything else out there, try turning the clocks to default to make sure it's not that, don't dismiss it out of hand.

The video cards are all in stock the only overclocked is the cpu and is very stable, never goes beyond 55C i ran many cpu stress for many hours, is a driver incompatibility that happens when i teleport sometimes

Oh dear god.

Your getting BSOD's because either your driver files are corrupted/damaged or your systems OC is unstable. Many hours is NOTHING, unless its prime stable for at least 24 hours and you have done memory stress testing its not stable.

Dude if your not going to take the advice given to resolve the problem dont bother asking for help. As I said earlier BSOD's ONLY happen when YOUR system has a problem. Its not the game at fault its YOUR computer.

Ok sorry i know, ill try to reset bio setting and get the overclock down, i hope that work cause i had this overclocked for 6 months o bsod or crash or something in any game, the only game is skyrim maybe is more sensitive to overclocked machines and the game itself its unstable about that but i think it must be the new drivers of Ati cause in 11.x the only issue was the bad scaling in crossfire it was fixed with 12.x but the bsod started

If you want to learn to OC properly, take my advice and go to the extreme overclocking forums (EOCF) <-google. Im a member there and had plenty of help from other members explaining how to OC properly and what steps to take to find out what to do when problems arise.

Ok i reseted the bios settings, uninstalled all drivers deleted all registrys of ati, reinstalled drivers, check memorys, check hard drive, all check... Like i said the only game, i can be playing for 6 hours bf3 0 problems, the only game thhat give me bsod is skyrim, all my system is ok, all updated 0 hardware malfunctions. now you can think maybe the game need a patch for crossfire or something?

Just a shot in the dark here, but have you disabled the integrated graphics?

Have you tried playing with one GPU?

It could well be a Crossfire issue & it's worth playing Skyrim for a few hours with one card only, If only to rule it out.
Which power supply do you use?

Yes disabled, i dont know what else to do is the only game with troubles, i bought this game i love it but since the version 1.0 it has problems with crossfire or ati cards

My wife and I used to get crashes in Skyrim when playing with Steam loaded. Since we don't use Steam any longer, the crashes went away.

This makes me wonder if you are using Steam with Skyrim, but with BF3, there is no Steam.

1) Skyrim with Steam; BSOD's
2) Skyrim without Steam; No BSOD's

So if BF3 runs all by itself with no Steam, and your Skyrim runs with Steam; that could be the issue on 'what' is causing the BSOD's.

Just a thought.

You have to run Steam with Skyrim...

Yes I have steam opened but really i need to close steam, what about the steam community aND THE ACHIEVMENTS, SO you tell me dont use steam i bought it to get that , the other way i just download it false, no sense

No, what I am saying is that you claim your system runs fine with BF3, and assuming other programs, but when you run Skyrim; you get the BSOD's. So, not knowing if BF3 needs Steam, I was wondering if Steam was causing your BSOD's. I bring it up as I remember getting BSOD's all the time. The wife and I just chalked it up to being a new game and there will be issues. But once we stopped running Steam, those BOSD's went away. Coincidence?

BTW, I am running Skyrim version 1.1.21.0. This was the last version to not have to have Steam to play Skyrim. Patches above that changed the way Skyrim played to where you are now forced to use Steam just to play Skyrim. This won't affect you as you chose to buy the game so you can have those achievements.

You are correct in that I won't get achievements and the things that go with Steam, but at least I don't have the BOSD's any longer.

Your milage may vary and I was wondering if the BOSD's you were getting could be traced back to Steam as that seemed like the next logical step in deciphering why you are getting the BOSD's. However, there are still players who are having issues even with the patches up to current.

thx for your reply, i dont really think is steam cause i can play dead island and many games with steam opened, i think is an incompatibility of the game in some areas with ati drivers or ati crossfire i think betheseda must look in this because since version 1.0 problems with ati or crossfire, many people have it and i get to he point of get worry about my system each time it restart cause the bsod, maybe is something bad coded that crash the video cards,

Dude its your system, Beth cant patch the game to fix YOUR systems problems. Its not a compatability problem its the fact that your system drivers ( either graphics or motherboard ) are causing a BSOD, not the game. Games DO NOT cause BSOD's, however they will show up errors with a system that has a fault.




Are you using the required ATi driver profiles? Is your driver package up to date and the correct kind for your OS? Are your motherboard drivers up to date (critical for crossfire!)? Is your PSU strong enough for the system.

I am sorry but this is just not true....while it will cause a crash much easier than say BF3 will etc. I have never gotten Skyrim to work my card anywhere close to as hard as DX: HR or BF3 and all of these games are cranked to max everything. In fact most of what taxes my GPU in Skyrim is any type of AA. For instance with FXAA enabled and everything at max or even with no AA my GPU never goes beyond 60% usage (no SLI/Crossfire) with say MSAA on at max it uses 99%. Deus Ex will use 99% with AA on or off as will BF3. Skyrim is more CPU bound so I am willing to be your CPU overclock is your issue OP as it may be unstable and while BF3 can be a GPU hog it uses nothing in comparison to Skyrim as far as CPU usage so try setting it back to the stock speed and you should be fine....and BF should play the same as well

Also.....ANYTHING ELSE OUT THERE? Cmon dude Witcher 2 and Metro 2033 are old and they tax my GPU way harder than Skyrim vanilla on Ultra....lol even Crysis 2 on DX11 with the High Texture Pack

@ OP uninstall your 12.2(ccc and all) and then install it again(ATI drivers are known for bad installs). Run CCleaner to clean your registry. Disable Crossfire and see if the game works with just one card. If it does try to go back to crossfire. If neither works change your CPU clock back to stock speed, voltage etc. What works for me atm with no issues on my 6970 single config is 12.1 Official release but it took two installs first one said it went through ok on the log but it def did not.

Lexandro i can tell you know a lot about this, am just telling you i have like 30 games in my pc andi never had any BSOD, much m,ore demanding games like metro 2033 or crysis 1 never had any kind of crash bsod or something, and you keep defending bethsedda when a lot, a lot of people are having issues with crossfire and ati setups even nvidia with only this game, seriously you dont need to be a genius to note that the game have something wrong, that is not fully supporting the last generations setups, yes i updated all drivers i fresh installed them in the new OS, i underclocked the cpu all in stock it keeps BSOding, ONLY SKYRIM since 1.0 version it had problems

Keep in mind as I read 12.2 has a skyrim profile or something so your CCC (if you are using it) might be loading the game under different render settings that what you have set. In CCC Gaming/3D applications check for profiles. Your cards are powerful enough to just use one to play Skyrim at or very near max anyway so if nothing else works go back to official 12.1 (no profile) and run one card. Unlike the rest of these guys I won't defend Bethesda and say it is indeed your rig....ATI drivers are a nuisance, the game was and still is in some regards coded very badly and it is also the only game I have had issues with on my 5 month old rig....which has around 20 new games from 2011-2012. Also just curious but what kind of PSU you got in that rig?

Its simply impossible for the game to be the cause of a BSOD. By definition BSOD's are system errors outwith a game. The only reason they show up with games is because games put such a strain on a system that errors that would otherwise get overlooked are brought to the fore. And yeah I do know a lot about this and other issues with a computer system, as I have been in the electronics industry for 15 years and building PC's for 10 years.

As I said before it doesnt matter what other games do or dont do, if at any time a system BSOD's is a system fault thats what a BSOD is, its a system stop error. Skyrim is asking the system to do something it should be able to do normally and due to a fault in the system its instead causing a BSOD. I have personally had hundreds of BSOD's when oc'ing to find a stable setting, and fixed thousands of BSOD errors myself as part of my job.

The next time it BSOD's get the exact error code and print it here. Then I can at least know if its a mobo driver or graphics driver fault.

the game runs perfect with 12.1 steam, great scalability in crossfire, but bsod to, really anoying how still is not proper patch for dual gpus

Lexandro, yes is imposible the game trhow bsod i know, but is posible tha bad coding for dual gpus make the cards crash