Any solution for crashes to desktop? : V

» Thu May 17, 2012 10:33 am

After about an hour or so of play, my game crashes to desktop. My specs are intel i7-2630Q @2.8ghz with nvidia geforce gt540m and 6gb of ram. I play with everything at high settings except shadows. Any fix to this problem or will I have to wait for a patch? Is this my fault? Please let me know!

» Thu May 17, 2012 7:59 pm

After about an hour or so of play, my game crashes to desktop. My specs are intel i7-2630Q @2.8ghz with nvidia geforce gt540m and 6gb of ram. I play with everything at high settings except shadows. Any fix to this problem or will I have to wait for a patch? Is this my fault? Please let me know!

Does it quit to desktop without warning or error message? That happened to me and I found a fix for it and has not happened since. I read on another thread here that you need to make game use more than 2GB RAM. Google "4GB Patch" and apply it to the game's EXE. As far as I know, this only works on 64-bit computers. Hope this helps ya

» Thu May 17, 2012 11:52 am

Does it quit to desktop without warning or error message? That happened to me and I found a fix for it and has not happened since. I read on another thread here that you need to make game use more than 2GB RAM. Google "4GB Patch" and apply it to the game's EXE. As far as I know, this only works on 64-bit computers. Hope this helps ya

Yes it does that! Thanks for the input I will definitely try that!

» Thu May 17, 2012 5:18 pm

Please reply back and let us know if that 4gb patch worked for you! I am having the same problem!

» Thu May 17, 2012 10:16 am

Yes it does that! Thanks for the input I will definitely try that!

Its the site ntcore.com for 4GB Patch, was first link at top on google.

» Thu May 17, 2012 11:18 am

Hi all. I made an account here so I could reply this. I just downloaded and applied the 4gb patch and 20 minutes in no crashes yet, that's good news because before the patch I was crashing every 5 minutes or less. I'll update after an hour or two.

» Thu May 17, 2012 2:09 pm

The patch seems to be working well for me as well... no crashes so far!

» Thu May 17, 2012 8:52 am

Am I doing something wrong? I tried installing that 4GB patch by patching the Skyrimlauncher.exe in the Skyrim folder in the steam apps/common folder, but when I try to launch the game it gives me a message that says "error 51." Am I patching the wrong exe or something?

» Thu May 17, 2012 7:27 pm

You're supposed to patch TESV.exe

» Thu May 17, 2012 6:41 am

I changed the auto-save period from the standard 15 minutes down to 5 minutes and I haven't had a crash since.

» Thu May 17, 2012 12:51 pm

You're supposed to patch TESV.exe

oh. Does that mean I have to run my game through the TESV exe or can I still use the launcher?

» Thu May 17, 2012 12:46 pm

Does this work?
Why would changing the autosave timeframe change things?

» Thu May 17, 2012 12:12 pm

You can still use the launcher.

» Thu May 17, 2012 10:49 am

Does this work?
Why would changing the autosave timeframe change things?

I have no idea why this would work but before I was getting a CTD every 30 mins or so and since then I have played 2 hours uninterrupted. Just thought I would mention it.

» Thu May 17, 2012 4:49 pm

SOLUTION : Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Default Device\Advanced

Change it from what ever you got to 16bit, 44100Hz

Worked for me

p.s I became a member just to respond to this thread LOVE SKYRIM! <3

» Thu May 17, 2012 7:24 pm

SOLUTION : Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Default Device\Advanced

Change it from what ever you got to 16bit, 44100Hz

Worked for me

p.s I became a member just to respond to this thread LOVE SKYRIM! <3

Did that, didn't change anything

» Thu May 17, 2012 10:50 am

i was looking at steam forums some guy pop up a link to this http://donotargue.com/cfg-makers/skyrim/ and i used it put all the option to max and have yet to CTD been on for 4 hours , i was getting 1 CTD about once very 1-2 hours so i am happy this might have fix my problem

» Thu May 17, 2012 3:47 pm

Alright, Well I tried the 4GB patch and it didn't work. It crashed 5 seconds into playing it.

» Thu May 17, 2012 9:36 am

I will test this 4gb Patch and the 5 minute autosave fix now. I will get back to you all and let you know if it works.

» Thu May 17, 2012 12:22 pm

I heard on another forum that changing shadows to low quality might help, i played for 1.5 hours last night with no error, could be a fluke? comeon Bethesda! you can fix this!

specs:

Intel I7-960 @3.4ghz
Nvidia GTX570
18gb Corsair XMS3 Ram
Windows 7 64-bit
Acer 24" LED monitor

» Thu May 17, 2012 10:49 am

Well I think I know what the problem is for me. I was getting the CTD like a lot of you, but mine seems to only happen in the White River Watch cave. It would literally crash every few seconds when I was in it so I loaded up a save at the cave entrance before I went in and no more crashing so far. So I guess I can't do the quest in that cave until there is a fix.

» Thu May 17, 2012 6:19 pm

Me again. Been playing a little over an hour with no crashes! I haven't changed anything since I installed the 4gb patch, so I do believe that is what fixed it!

» Thu May 17, 2012 7:07 pm

Shadows and 4GB patch doesn't work for me. Nothing does that has been posted before.

» Thu May 17, 2012 8:41 am

4GB patch did not help me. Got a crash to desktop about 30 minutes into playing. This time it crashed while going through a door, while it was autosaving. Now, not only does that auto save crash me to desktop when I try and load it, picking ANY SAVE crashes to desktop.

Time to reinstall. :brokencomputer:

Reinstalled and no change. Picking any of my saves results in an instant crash to desktop.

This svcks big time.

Started new game up until it auto saved and then did a new save. Loading both of those works fine. While in that new game tried loading some of my older ones and instant crash to desktop. Kept going back and found one that worked! 11 saves ago, about 7 hours of play. Yipee :confused:

» Thu May 17, 2012 5:01 am

To the people that suggest changing the sound quality: I find this fix only helps those who are having trouble even getting into the game. Many of us are able to play the game for an hour or so only to be hit with a random crash to desktop with no error message, which changing the sound quality does not fix.