When i press play it restart the laucher : V

» Wed May 23, 2012 7:04 am

Well the title says it all, all of a sudden when i open my skyrim now and click play it reopen the launcher, any way i can get my launcher to start the game when i click play instead of just restarting the launcher?

» Wed May 23, 2012 7:32 am

Well the title says it all, all of a sudden when i open my skyrim now and click play it reopen the launcher, any way i can get my launcher to start the game when i click play instead of just restarting the launcher?

I am having the same issue. Did someone actually perform testing on this patch before release?

» Wed May 23, 2012 10:22 am

Try to close and restart your Steam client.

» Wed May 23, 2012 7:29 am

Try to close and restart your Steam client.

i have done that, restarted my pc, set steam to offline mode, anything i can think of.

» Tue May 22, 2012 7:08 pm

Same problem... Can't launch the game. Pressing "play" just reopens the launcher. Restarting didn't help. Can't play the game now.

» Wed May 23, 2012 12:22 am

Well the title says it all, all of a sudden when i open my skyrim now and click play it reopen the launcher, any way i can get my launcher to start the game when i click play instead of just restarting the launcher?

I had that problem, too, just today after Steam sneaked the patch on me. The following worked for me:
- Open Steam
- Right Click on Skyrim, select properties
- Select Local Files tab, verify game cache
(so basically doing what the sticky post recommends first)

If above still doesn't let you run the game, make a copy of your skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini, then delete the originals. Re-validate the game cache via Steam. Deleting the files and verifying seemed to trigger a steam download for me, after that, the launcher worked again. Perhaps deleting or simply renaming another file works as well. Just so to force Steam to do something with your Skyrim install.

I really do hope you get your problems fixed! Good luck!

» Wed May 23, 2012 7:15 am

I was having the same problem a while back. I went to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim\ and right clicked on TESV.EXE go to Properties and then the Compatability Tab. Make sure "Run This Program as an Adninistrator is NOT checked. Hope this helps!

» Wed May 23, 2012 4:31 am

I had that problem, too, just today after Steam sneaked the patch on me. The following worked for me:
- Open Steam
- Right Click on Skyrim, select properties
- Select Local Files tab, verify game cache
(so basically doing what the sticky post recommends first)

If above still doesn't let you run the game, make a copy of your skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini, then delete the originals. Re-validate the game cache via Steam. Deleting the files and verifying seemed to trigger a steam download for me, after that, the launcher worked again. Perhaps deleting or simply renaming another file works as well. Just so to force Steam to do something with your Skyrim install.

I really do hope you get your problems fixed! Good luck!

AHA! It worked. Thank you.

» Tue May 22, 2012 9:52 pm

Great thanks that works for me

» Wed May 23, 2012 6:52 am

I had that problem, too, just today after Steam sneaked the patch on me. The following worked for me:
- Open Steam
- Right Click on Skyrim, select properties
- Select Local Files tab, verify game cache
(so basically doing what the sticky post recommends first)

If above still doesn't let you run the game, make a copy of your skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini, then delete the originals. Re-validate the game cache via Steam. Deleting the files and verifying seemed to trigger a steam download for me, after that, the launcher worked again. Perhaps deleting or simply renaming another file works as well. Just so to force Steam to do something with your Skyrim install.

I really do hope you get your problems fixed! Good luck!

I'm having the same problem.

However, I'm a technomoron. Can you please explain how to do this starting with the step right after...turn power on

I mean...I am not being sarcastic or trying to be funny. In the past, other games, I've received advice but too many people assume I already know which folder a file is in, etc. I don't. To try and give you a better picture, if your computer was a bucket of gasoline...you seriously would not want me near it with anything flammable.

» Wed May 23, 2012 4:50 am

I had that problem, too, just today after Steam sneaked the patch on me. The following worked for me:
- Open Steam
- Right Click on Skyrim, select properties
- Select Local Files tab, verify game cache
(so basically doing what the sticky post recommends first)

If above still doesn't let you run the game, make a copy of your skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini, then delete the originals. Re-validate the game cache via Steam. Deleting the files and verifying seemed to trigger a steam download for me, after that, the launcher worked again. Perhaps deleting or simply renaming another file works as well. Just so to force Steam to do something with your Skyrim install.

I really do hope you get your problems fixed! Good luck!

Thank you so much!

» Tue May 22, 2012 8:16 pm

I'm having the same problem.

However, I'm a technomoron. Can you please explain how to do this starting with the step right after...turn power on

I mean...I am not being sarcastic or trying to be funny. In the past, other games, I've received advice but too many people assume I already know which folder a file is in, etc. I don't. To try and give you a better picture, if your computer was a bucket of gasoline...you seriously would not want me near it with anything flammable.

No problem at all...!

- Turn your computer on...
(okay, just kidding) Once Windows is running:
- make sure Steam is running and is online (don't set it to offline mode, Steam will need to download stuff)
- open your Windows Explorer
- locate skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini by either
-- going to C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\My Games\Skyrim [USERNAME] is the username you are currently logged in
-- or searching for skyrim.ini via the windows search
- rename skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini, you can simply exchange the .ini by .bak, for example
- open the Steam Library
- proceed as already written in my above post by validating your game cache
- after validation, Steam should begin a download (notice the download progress bar in the lower steam window). Once the download is complete, try restarting Skyrim.

From reading other posts on similar errors, the cause of this problem seems that Steam somehow deletes the ~~skyrim.exe~~ tesv.exe from the system. Well, no comment on that.