walk 3 steps skyrim freezes.

entering a door, crashes to desktop.

my lvl 53 character of 400+ hrs is so broken, i deleted skyrim desktop icon

guess the only thing i can do after posting this is to wait for KOA, ME3 and D3.

TES iii -> TES iv full of crap bugs

TES iv -> TES v open world game with a CTD countdown.

you dont CTD now is only because it has yet to come.

other game patch to be better, TES patches to be unplayable.

TES vi...... they make your computer explode? i wont be surprise.

enjoy your CTD =)

While I agree the game is a veritable timebomb waiting to CTD this post lacks your 28 day old PC specs...a dxdiag or a save game file for your 400plus hour character. Maybe post in the sticky thread or one of the CTD save file size/timeplayed forums like this one:http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1318498-ctd-save-file-size/

I see these forums are for complaining and complaining only. they are working on a patch man. calm down

You've only had your computer 28 days and yet you've logged 400+ hours playing Skyrim on it? That's amazingly hardcoe, since there's only 672 hours in 28 days to begin with. That's a touch over 14 hours per day, all while working around your CTDs.

Whoa.

400hours on a 28 day old computer...........
Complain else where. Not even a mention of specs and whether using CPU mods which have cleared ctd for a lot of people.

So what you mean to say is that your BiG Deal PC has problems so its not possible for anybody else's PC to be any different. That's ignorant. My year old Big Deal PC has had a dozen CTDs in 250 hours. That's just once in a bit shy of 20 hours. I don't like it, but it is hardly your experience, either.

Firstly, I think you're lying about the hours you played. Secondly, I think you're not divulging your PC specs for a reason

I think you are fibbing Mr Troll. 400 hours in 28 days is pretty over the top.

Yeah.... I broke 120 hours in a little less than 2 weeks after this game came out. But that was because I essentially had no life for 2 weeks. I can't imagine 400 hours in 28 days. That's MADNESS.

And as a side note, definitely post your DXDiag. Anything can go wrong with a new computer. ESPECIALLY if you built it yourself or had someone else build it.

A computer being new has absolutely nothing to do with if/when a game ctd...for the record, I am playing on a laptop (mediocre) and had ... 2? errors in more than 200 hours since release. With using mods that is.
New PCs often tend to have problems, especially, as said before, when built by yourself. This can be some hardware issue (maybe your fans don't work as intended), crappy drivers, wrong driver installations, corrupt data, idontknowhat. A self built rig gives many many opportunities for mistakes.

So I suggest the same as everyone else: post your dxdiag if you want help. If you don't want any help, I think this thread is redundant and you are a troll.

i stopped reading there. Since when did Skyrim make TES games Open world? Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion were all open world games, in the same sense Skyrim is. Heck even fallout 3 (at least, i haven't played the others) is open world.

400+ hours? This is really hard to comprehend in 28 days only. No asking for help either, just complaining.

Obvious troll is obvious, I think.

I had a perfectly stable game for a long, long time and then suddenly hit a wall with increasing ctds. I have no idea what causes it.
Some people are saying its to do with save game size, mine was about 15MB in size when the problems started which seems to be usual.
Or maybe it has to do with the number of completed quests or amount of dungeons and areas explored or a ticking timebombs caused by some faulty quest scripts or even save game corruption caused by changes to the game introduced in the patches.

I think there is something seriously wrong with the Companions scripts. When you complete the guild quest as eventually leaving Jorvaskr hall becomes impossible without a ctd, and strange glitches happen like the return of an npc who died during the questline. Also the Thieves Guild quest seems to corrupt the Understone Keep cells, perhaps again with faulty scripts, as I have been unable to access the place again without ctds after that quest. Lots of other people are reporting these same problems on the forum so it must be more than just a random glitch.

Reverting to older saves doesn't help as you eventually hit that wall again the ctds resume. It means any character you invest your time has a limit and eventually you have to retire them and start over from scratch.

Hang on a minute.. didn't you say that after 300 hours your game was unplayable?

Yet somehow you've managed to get another 100 hours out of it since 31st December? That's fine then - presumably you'll be able to get 100+ hours more out of the game until your next post

Sorry but i had a totally different experience. My girlfriend clocked slightly over 90 hours on her wood elf, reaching a save game of i think around 17mb or so, and she explored the entire map. Seriously when i look at my own map it's empty compared to that [censored]. Still she crashed once on that character and that was before any fixes whatsoever (vanilla 1.1). I doubt there is a true CTD wall, i think there is a quest script or an AI script that just goes on a loop at some point and wastes memory.

There are 3 possibilities here:

1. Try to buy your software and games instead of pirating them. You're still complaining about issues that were resolved for 99.9% of PC players in the last update.
2. Don't buy cheap PC components from your local Wallmart.
3. Learn how to build a computer properly. Pay special attention to airflow since you couldn't be bothered with CPU and GPU temperatures.

Personally I would go with #1.

That'll teach 'em!

Totally off-topic, but I had to laugh at that one

I just noticed this. Please explain how other games do not crash if you only have Skyrim installed as you claimed? You sir are a liar and a troll. Should I ever find you in Skyrim I will gladly sacrifice you to Boethia.

I do feel for you that you are having problems, and your experience is different from your expectations, but this is what we call PC gaming. If you want to be part of the PC gaming community, be PART of it. Provide information so other gamers might be able to help you. Read over the forums; see if you can find others having the problem you are having. Then if there is no solution that is working for you, explain it in a post, and believe it or not, you won’t get the smack down. You will most always get help in one form or another. PC gamers are a team of intelligent folks that do love the thrill of customizing a game for their rig. It is just part of the process.

My point is, join the community, add to the cause of the PC gaming community, and you WILL get it back. When you come in half cocked, pissed off, and just blabber on (with BS info to boot), this is your result. Don’t expect to be part of the community we call PC Gamers.

Take a few minutes before posting a comment, maybe read over other threads, then post your problem with as much detail as possible. Try it, it does work.

So much idiocy in this thread. I don't agree with the tone that OP lodges his complaint, but that doesn't take away the fact that what he is saying is valid. Skyrim is a ticking time bomb before the CTD bug plagues the game and it's unacceptable.

Btw i don't think he is lying about the hours played, as i have personally tested a 450 hour save that someone posted who had been plagued with the CTD bug. Unfortunatley i can't remember where it got posted.. maybe on these forums? Point is it's entirely possible to have played such excessive amounts of time already.

If the devs or someone who was in contact with the devs would just confirm that the devs are aware of and working on this CTD/save issue then we could all just let the matter rest until fixed. The silence though is deafening.

There maybe a lot of moaners on here but there are plenty of people that moan at moaners here as well. So many people here come to Bethesda's defence like someone attacked their mother.

I think its more to keep a sense of perspective. If we assume that any game on a PC has a certain percentage of people that runs into problems. Then lets say its one of the biggest selling games of all time, it stands to reason that percentage with problems will number massively higher and thus there will be more posts on forums, which in turn gives an unbalanced view because most people without problems are too busy playing and enjoying the game to post anything!.

I've experienced 1 crash so far on my core i7 after about 10 days really solid play (like sleep play eat play play eat play sleep...and play), and I probably represent the average players experience of the game, rather than just the uber lucky one that it just happens to work on.

I keep pumping tweaks and crap into my skyrim game and still haven't had a CTD that was caused by the game.

At launched i couldn't run the game at all due to the CTDs occuring.. but after the LAA fix... flawless.

I've recently bumped up my ugrids to 9 with no impact on my performs (due to a truely killer rig)... and still haven't experienced a CTD that wasn't the result of pushing the 32bit limits of the game (4gb addressed memory crash.... so no fault of the game)

I think my saved game is sitting at approximately 23mb in size... with about 200 hours logged thus far.

I really am not having any issues at all.

While it's undeniable Skyrim is flawed by many issues - still - a lot has improved since 11-11-11. I don't see why we have to go on and on with these kind of threads... Alright, people need to vent I could only play the game after the 22nd of december, just when there was an NVIDIA-update as well as the latest patch. I was expecting the worst, but so far I had only 4 CTD and one freeze in 94+ hours.

I have 8GB of RAM and play on a Geforce GTX 560ti.

One problem is that these (seemingly random) crashes can appear on any system, it seems. Even some people with high end system can't run the game perfect.

Spec of the OP's computer?

I read about these spanking new high end pcs some 16 year store associate told them to buy, only to find out.....

OP is a baby, slag him until the mods close the thread for being off topic. Come on guys don't support this sort of BS thread crapping.
ED: But if you insist on speculating on a thread this guy is very unlikely to ever return to, look at his two other posts in the forum and you'll find his comp specs, his middle of the pack computer seems fine and its very likely he's been screwing with the prefs files and created a condition his GTX570 can't consistently handle.