CtD after HD DLC? : V

» Tue May 29, 2012 4:58 pm

Ok, I have been playing Skyrim with several hiRez mods so the system is pretty good.

I installed the DH pack and decided to view it. I loaded an old game and all looked good. So I decided to start a new game from scratch. Twice in a row now the game CtD while they are on the cart and the thief is talking. Exact same spot. Has this happened to anyone else?

I know the PC is fine so maybe I deleted something I shouldn't have when I manually deleted my mods? What should be left in the DATA folder if you have no mods attached?

Thanks.

» Tue May 29, 2012 1:09 pm

It's happening to quite a few people, myself included.

We're not getting any answers besides the usual "Verify cache and reinstall" stuff, which doesn't work.

» Tue May 29, 2012 2:27 pm

Well three times now. Right after the thief says that the Empire was lazy, CtD.

» Tue May 29, 2012 2:27 pm

i have ctd aswell

» Tue May 29, 2012 7:54 pm

Is that the only place? I can load the save where you start the CC. I just thought it would be nice to see the whole intro again.

» Wed May 30, 2012 3:13 am

Is that the only place? I can load the save where you start the CC. I just thought it would be nice to see the whole intro again.

I can't load the game at all. New games crash and loading existing saves crash. All I can see is the loading screens.

And I know its not computer related because there are folks out there with half the computing power I have that are running it without crashes.

» Wed May 30, 2012 3:30 am

Mines not CtD, however Ralof and the prisoners in the cart ahead of me have untextured clothes on. Ulfric and the horse thief's clothes are textured.

» Tue May 29, 2012 12:00 pm

Well I just turned the packs off and the game played the intro fine.

I'll try playing for a while on a old save and see what happens.

BUT, there is obviously some memory bug or something with the DLC. How or where should it be officially reported?

» Tue May 29, 2012 2:55 pm

Mines not CtD, however Ralof and the prisoners in the cart ahead of me have untextured clothes on. Ulfric and the horse thief's clothes are textured.

Did you have a texture mod on before? I have seen people talking about that being a problem when using the new textures.

» Tue May 29, 2012 4:59 pm

No PC specs?? Are you guys near the recommended settings? Well over? Under?

» Tue May 29, 2012 7:38 pm

I am comfortably over the specs and my game won't even start.

At the launcher I hit play, it disappears, then the launcher comes up again. Hit play again, cycle repeats, anger swells.

» Tue May 29, 2012 9:07 pm

Not the best PC but my setting are not maxed out either:

PC:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Memory: Dual Channel 4 MB DDR2
Graphics Card: NVidia GeForce N250GTS Twin Frozr 1G
Monitor Size: 19" (playing at 1280x1024)

Skyrim Options:

Antialiasing: 2 Samples
Anisotropic Filtering: Off

EDIT: I just loaded the save before the CC and had a CtD right after the dragon started it's attack. Dang it all anyway.

» Tue May 29, 2012 11:56 pm

Im having some CTD with the DLC too, most of the time wont work if i install any mod from the workshop. But even whit no mods installed i get CTD when i try to fast travel/ enter a building

» Tue May 29, 2012 10:47 pm

Well I had to edit my prior post as I forgot to turn on the DLC files when I played from CC. After turning it on it was CtD just after the dragon attacked.

I suppose if this is not a known bug that Bethesda is going to look at I can go back to unchecking the DLC and loading up all the HiRez mods that ... well apparently worked.

So is there any mention of someone looking into this from Bethesda (since I'm not the only one)?

» Tue May 29, 2012 11:45 am

I just made a post about this. I had experienced some CTDs but this HD pack 100% rendered the game unplayable for me. After about... 15 near-instant CTDs I finally had enough and uninstalled.

What on earth went wrong with this game? You can't go to any forum really without throngs of people having issue after issue with it....

» Tue May 29, 2012 8:37 pm

I've been asking for help on this issue both on this forum and others. 99% of time I just get ignored and when I do get someones attention - they don't have a clue.

Something tells me this isn't getting fixed for a long time.

» Tue May 29, 2012 12:19 pm

I can load saves in interior cells, (my house, a shop, etc.) but the moment I try to go to an exterior cell, ( walking out my front door is dangerous business indeed) ctd. Currently trying every fix I know

» Tue May 29, 2012 1:52 pm

Did you have a texture mod on before? I have seen people talking about that being a problem when using the new textures.

Nope, just pure vanilla "greatness"... I waited to get mods for the CK.

» Tue May 29, 2012 2:56 pm

What on earth went wrong with this game? You can't go to any forum really without throngs of people having issue after issue with it....

What went wrong was Bethesda hanging their marketing hat on the super-cool 11/11/11 release date. Hope it was worth it.

» Tue May 29, 2012 4:20 pm

Same problem here... CTD when loading any save, or a few seconds into the intro. Some folks are saying that Windows 7 32 bit is causing the issue.

Game runs fine when I untick the texture packs. I have 0 mods installed... just used skyboost and deleted the folder after 1.4 was released.

» Tue May 29, 2012 5:41 pm

64bit OS is recommended really, despite Bethesda saying Windows Visa/Windows 7. Also it could be that the DLC texture files have an issue and you might need to redownload them or verify the game cache in Steam

» Tue May 29, 2012 10:20 pm

x64 edition of WIndows will not help at all, except better performance as it using more ram memory before flushing to swap file.

As i said many times, bugthesda did not fix the bugs they must fix at first (ctd, bsod related), you just play same old game with 4gb third party patch, but if game get high resolution textures or a lot of mods with new models, it will crash as no sufficient memory. ANd you can't do anything about that, except to decrease quality in graphic options. Just forget about that "dlc" or install it partially only to those things you really need. Without sources of game engine it's not an easy to make walkaround.

» Tue May 29, 2012 8:23 pm

Just wanted to say I too experienced crashing with the HD texture pack, so this certainly isnt an isolated issue and the issue probably isn't on our end.

» Tue May 29, 2012 10:31 pm

My game also CTD when Skyrim gets to above 1.5GB of RAM

» Tue May 29, 2012 12:44 pm

x64 edition of WIndows will not help at all, except better performance as it using more ram memory before flushing to swap file.

As i said many times, bugthesda did not fix the bugs they must fix at first (ctd, bsod related), you just play same old game with 4gb third party patch, but if game get high resolution textures or a lot of mods with new models, it will crash as no sufficient memory. ANd you can't do anything about that, except to decrease quality in graphic options. Just forget about that "dlc" or install it partially only to those things you really need. Without sources of game engine it's not an easy to make walkaround.

Apparently this.

My game runs great ... when it's running. The HD Textures did not add any noticable frame-rate loss. It is just after about 30 seconds the game just CtD. Like all it's memory got svcked up and it just suddenly dies.

Is there a way to check and see what actually caused the CtD? Course we get no error code, but is there a way to run something or check somewhere to see what caused it?

Also, is there a way to check to see if the game is really using more than 2 GB of RAM? I upgraded from 2GB to 4GB after I installed the game. Maybe it still thinks I only have 2GB. Is there a way to check?

Thanks.