tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969320787832284163.post4544842207651876869..comments2023-05-25T09:12:41.859+01:00Comments on one.miguel: Could it really be this easy?Juan Miguel Paredeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027659645575367269noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969320787832284163.post-71860085495967252552012-02-15T10:30:38.593+00:002012-02-15T10:30:38.593+00:00Interesting thing happened when playing last - at ...Interesting thing happened when playing last - at one point, just outside of Whiterun, I ran into an old Orc who wanted to "die a good death" and after I started to grant his which, the screen froze for 1/2 second, the sound started to stutter and it seemed like the start of a black screen/reboot crash, but then it recovered and no issue for the next four hours.<br /><br />So what happened? I think the game started to change all kinds of variables based on that decision to engage the Orc and that caused the stutter as things were loaded and changed.<br /><br />I think if *THAT* situation happens AND there is a auto-save at the same time, things go downhill really fast and the whole system crashes. Since I disabled auto-saving, then it didn't crash.<br /><br />I shouldn't say nothing else happened the rest of the session - after a period of time, I noticed a slight "heaviness" to the whole game. Seemed a little jerky vs the normal super smooth. It's barely noticeable. But I saved the game, exited to Desktop and restarted Skyrim and loaded the game and it was back to smoothness. I think this is just the engine having too much garbage (memory leak anyone?) in memory and reloading cleared it out. Next time this happens, I will try just saving to a new save file and then loading it to see if the heaviness is lifted.<br /><br />Anyway, that's my latest update.Juan Miguel Paredeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14027659645575367269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969320787832284163.post-60589217227531154022012-02-14T15:07:27.844+00:002012-02-14T15:07:27.844+00:00More and more I'm convinced that the auto-savi...More and more I'm convinced that the auto-saving is the issue. Definitely give that a try. When you load your game, make a new save file and just do manual quick saves (F5) to that save game. I've gone through your iterations as well and always ended the same: crash-reboots.Juan Miguel Paredeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14027659645575367269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969320787832284163.post-29283409902761202232012-02-14T12:35:57.102+00:002012-02-14T12:35:57.102+00:00Wow, that's interesting.
For a quick update f...Wow, that's interesting.<br /><br />For a quick update from me, I have tried many things, and unscientifically, my current config is changed many ways since I started.<br /><br />-Lower the sound quality<br />-Disable antialiasing<br />-Set power profile to maximum performance<br />-Disable core parking<br /><br />None of these helped much at all, and I was getting crashes within minutes of launching the game.<br /><br />Next:<br />-Set skyrimlauncher.exe and tesv.exe to compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2 (and without really thinking about it, launching from Windows Explorer rather than Steam)<br /><br />This seemed to give me hours of stability, but I did have one crash happen while I paused a game and walked away for a bit, though it's possible the screen saver might have been the culprit. This is purely anecdotal and could very well be related to an uncorrupt save game.<br /><br />-I tried one last thing: setting the display adapter to high performance in NVidia control panel (I only boot to Windows to play games on the Macbook Pro).<br /><br />I have had two sessions, 2-4 hours long each, no crash. Is it related to what I did? I can't say. But at least I've managed to make some progress and get immersed in the game again.<br /><br />Keep up the good work!Allanhttp://movingsky.canoreply@blogger.com