Skyrim crashes to desktop. Why does Skyrim crash during the game? Why Skyrim crashes while playing without errors - solutions

Load Game CTD Fix

Description:
If you play Skyrim with a lot of mods, many like me are probably experiencing regular crashes when loading a saved game from the main menu. Initially, the only way to reliably get around this was the "cos qasmoke" console command trick, where you move to the qasmoke cell and then manually load the save from the menu. Some players also relied on loading a save game while in a safe area and performing a second load from there. This fix makes some changes to the “Main Menu” of the game so that when you click on the “Continue” or “Load” button of a saved game, a crash when loading a saved game is prevented, without any difficulties. I automated this process in a previous "Continue Game No Crash" mod that I published a while ago, but it turned out to be less than ideal since it uses an .esp file (and scripts) that took up a pointless place in the mods' loading order. The initial dual boot took longer and many people perceived it as a harmful mod that "supposedly" inserted incorrect data into the save and that as a result they could not even play. As a result, I decided to completely change the mod and fix various problems. With new knowledge of the issues, I decided to publish this fix as a new mod, rather than simply creating an update to the old version of the Continue Game No Crash mod, for reasons I'll explain below.

The first explanation of a problem that you may miss if you have no programming experience. Many people perceived the game crashing under load as a FootIK bug and a memory issue where Skyrim tried to load too much data at once. Other people thought it was due to bad save data preventing the game from loading. The problem is related to the large amount of data to load, but the game crash is caused by multithreading and not because there is not enough memory or due to poor data saving. Essentially, the programmers at Bethesda forgot to write a "mutex" to protect critical data, which allowed one processor core to access data that another processor had not yet finished loading. As a result, a heavily modified game takes longer to load data. People used double load methods to get around loading crashes caused by the fact that there was less data between steps, which reduced the chances of a crash and the data processing was a little faster with the underlying assets being loaded first, and then loading everything else, with the underlying assets being loaded first. already cached in memory. The fix this plugin does is to prevent these crashes and limit the Skyrim game to only use one CPU core when loading. Once the game has finished loading the save, this plugin will allow Skyrim to use all the CPU cores on your system. You may experience slower loading times as a result of the single CPU core limit while loading a game save, but it is usually faster than double loading from the previous version of the "Continue Game No Crash" mod, and once the game has finished loading, all CPU cores will be back on available for use so as not to affect gameplay performance.

The reasons why I had to change the mod to a new version:
* The "Continue Game No Crash" mod may not have been the best since people were looking for things like "load ctd fix" etc. I called it "Continue Game No Crash" initially because the first version of the mod only worked with loading the most recent game, such as the "Continue" button in the main menu.
* Some people believe that my previous mod "Continue Game No Crash" is a harmful mod similar to Stable uGridsToLoad and that it introduced other problems into save games.
* In the new version of the mod there are no scripts, no .esp file, only one .dll file

Note:
- This mod is not guaranteed to work 100% for all players, in an attempt to work around bugs that exist in Skyrim. If this mod and method does not work for you, then some mods may be to blame, and it is very difficult to make the mod work for every computer and game, with every possible combination of mods.

Compatible Mods:
- Compatible with any mod.
- Compatible with Enderal.

Requirements:
Skyrim 1.9.32.0.8
SKSE 1.07.03 and higher

When updating from the "Continue Game No Crash" mod option to the new "Load Game CTD Fix" option:
1. If you have installed the previous version of the mod called "Continue Game No Crash" and want to switch to the new version "Load Game CTD Fix", then be sure to delete all files
- Delete the startmenu.swf file along the Data/Interface path if there is one, and if you have a mod that contains the startmenu.swf file, then reinstall it.
- Delete the ContinueGameNoCrash.esp file from the Data folder in the game.
- Delete the ContinueGameNoCrash.pex script along the path Data/scripts/
- Delete the file ContinueGameNoCrash.dll in the path Data/SKSE/Plugins/
2. Install a new version of the mod "Load Game CTD Fix".

Installation: (can be done manually or through NMM / MO managers)
Place the SKSE folder from the archive into the Data folder in the game.

Perhaps every gamer has encountered a bug during startup. The causes of this malfunction can be many factors, ranging from “banal” driver problems to damage to video game files.

Figure 1. Detailed instructions on how to get rid of the error while playing Skyrim

Why does Skyrim crash on startup or while playing?

To find out why Skyrim crashes during the game or when starting, you need to pay attention to the following factors:

1. System drivers.
2. Operation of the operating system.
3. Game documents.

Driver error

Skyrim stops working due to outdated or missing drivers for devices needed for the video game to function (Figure 2). So, a breakdown may occur due to the drivers of the video card and sound card. If there is a malfunction, Skyrim crashes without error.

Figure 2. Updating the driver for the video card from the official Nvidia website

To return the video game to functionality, you will need to download and update the installed drivers and restart your personal computer.

Note: To quickly install the necessary drivers, you need to use specialized software. On the Internet you can find driver packs that, using one installation process, independently find and install the necessary “firewood”.

System load

Skyrim crashes during the game without an error when a malfunction occurs with the system's performance. So, the reason for the appearance may be running background applications, insufficient RAM or processor load.

To fix it, you will need to close all third-party programs, check the list of startup applications and restart the computer. It is also recommended to expand the amount of RAM (if the configuration of your personal computer or laptop allows) and increase the system swap file.

Note: From time to time it is necessary to clean the registry and check the system for failures and errors. These operations can be performed using a special utility. Among the free programs of this type, one can highlight CCleaner. However, for more effective cleaning, use the RegOrganizer program; you can also find its “cracked” version on the Internet.

Problems starting, or missing components

If Skyrim crashes during the game or at startup, but all drivers are installed, resource-intensive background applications are disabled, and the RAM is increased, then the reason lies in the integrity of the program files.

To solve the problem, you need to download the installer again, and at the same time, add the product to the exclusion list of your antivirus program.

Important! You can disable the antivirus during installation, or add the installer to exceptions only if the installation document was downloaded from a reliable source.

Skyrim stops working during the game: ways to solve problems

After diagnosing the causes of the crash, it is necessary to begin eliminating them.

Disabling the antivirus system

If the installer was downloaded from a trusted source, the antivirus program can be uninstalled while the installer is running. Antivirus software may mistakenly delete or quarantine files, without which Skyrim will not function properly.

Purchasing a license (if a pirated version was used)

Hacked game documents may not work. It is also not recommended to download a pirated version for PC security reasons (Figure 3). Such a document may contain viruses and adware that will slow down the computer and harm the system.

Figure 3. Steam window with the opportunity to purchase the Skyrim game officially

To prevent Skyrim from crashing during the game, you need to install licensed software. In addition to a stable application, the user gets the opportunity to fight with friends online and receive program updates.

Note: Having a license in hand, the user can download and install Skyrim on his computer at any time. The licensed installer is stored in the Steam digital service.

Problem downloading Skyrim updates after crashes

If a video game constantly crashes, it means that the problem is in downloading updates for files necessary for the program to work. To fix it, you need to download and install the latest versions of Microsoft C++, DirextX, and Microsoft Framework.

Note: If, after performing all the above steps, Skyrim crashes during the game without errors, then the reason lies in the technical characteristics of the computer. The PC simply cannot handle such a demanding gaming product.

To summarize, it is worth saying that the problem with the game not working occurs on both new and old computers. The reason may lie in the software and hardware of the machine. In the first case, the malfunction can be eliminated by installing additional software and optimizing the operation of the existing one. In the second case, you can’t do without a serious PC upgrade.

This fix fixes a bug and will “block” the endless loading screen and “freezing” of the Skyrim game during gameplay! Simply put, this fix mod corrects the incorrect allocation of memory allocated to the game! In addition, this fix mod does not have any esp. files!!!

The game Skyrim is a very unpredictable game and often all these “unpredictable” surprises arise in the game due to the excessive use of mods. To be more precise, mods are usually all different, both in the use of heavy textures and in the use of various scripts from mods, which disrupts the operation of the game and increases the consumption of resources and memory, and as a result we get a “crash” of the game or more simply speaking of the game crashing, and also often just a banal situation, this is an “endless” loading screen when moving through locations or loading locations. We also see very often a fairly common problem of “freezing” and stopping the game during gameplay. The author of this fix mod made a miracle fix!

Update:1.2
- Added the "ErrorCheck" script, which fixes the game crashing or crashing when opening the game menu
- Added the script "EnableOnlyLoading", which fixes the game crashing in loading screens
- Added SafetyLoad.ini file (read below what it is needed for)

Update: 1.1
- Fixed a bug that led to a conflict with the mod (when changing a hairstyle or entering the settings of the GG menu, a crash occurred, now everything is fixed)

On a note:
- I read the reviews in the comments on the author’s page of this fix and read the following comments
- One writes that:
"I had an eternal problem that I could not go from the island of Solstheim back to the mainland of Skyrim, but now with this fix everything is fixed"
- Another writes that:
"It really works!! I installed the mod. I went to a location that was problematic and the game crashed, Pow-Zaam-Boom!! This fix mod overcame this problem. Amazing! THANK YOU SO MUCH!"
- The third writes that:
"All my loading screens in the game took from ~60 to 100 seconds, when loading occurs in open locations, now it takes about 5-10 seconds..."
....So draw your conclusions, although I don’t really understand the meaning of this fix, whether this fix simply resets the game to the desktop, instead of endless loading, or bypasses all the troubles associated with memory use and the game loads normally. ..

More details:
Infinite Loading Screen occurs for several reasons:
1. broken save file
2. low memory
3. when the game loads numerous objects and texture data

Result:
- This mod blocks the 3rd problem described above
- If "broken" save files are detected, this fix will write the error data to a log file and stop the game in the normal way. This is better than the "Endless" loading screen
- This fix mod fixes the “memory allocation” function for the game

Notes and SafetyLoad.ini:
- This mod changes the memory distribution in the game and it depends on your PC (OS, 32 or 64bit, memory size, etc.)
- If you have no problems after installing this fix mod, congratulations! You have received all the benefits of this fix mod
- If you have problems after installing this fix mod (the game crashes when the menu is open, you get other game crashes or the game freezes, a graphical glitch, etc.), please try changing the value:
"EnableOnlyLoading = false" change to "EnableOnlyLoading = true" at Skyrim/Data/SKSE/Plugins/SafetyLoad.ini
- If you still have problems after changing the .ini file, you cannot use this mod...nothing will help you, sorry
- When installing a lot of mods with heavy textures, the loading screen animation will sometimes pause, however, in the game, the loading screens will load in the background. Please just wait

Requirements:
Skyrim LE 1.9.32.0.8
1.07.03

Installation:
Place the SKSE folder from the Data folder in the archive into the Data folder in the game, confirm merging folders and files if necessary.

Skyrim is a game that takes place in the provinces. Civil war breaks out. Your character is a dragon slayer who does not yet know about his destiny. The goal of Dovahkiin is to destroy the dragons, who have begun to wake up after a long sleep, and their leader Alduin.

The game is great due to its graphics, story and unpredictable journeys. But one problem may arise in the process - why does Skyrim crash at startup?

If the game crashes immediately after you created your character, then do the following: check the system requirements that your PC must meet, because the minimum requirements for the correct operation of this toy are very strict. It is advisable to install the latest versions of drivers for the sound and video card, and the presence of the latest DirectX.

So, the minimum requirements:

1. The game will work on any Windows. With any computer bit (it can be 32-bit or 64-bit).
2. Look at how many cores your processor has. A dual-core one is enough. The frequency should preferably be 2 GHz.
3. RAM from 2 GB.
4. Next, free up 6 GB on your hard drive if you want to still play this game.
5. Look at your sound card. It must support DirectX.
6. The video card must support 512 MB for the minimum game request.
7. Internet is required to activate the game on Steam.

If your computer meets all the requirements, but the game still crashes, then we suggest that you familiarize yourself with some tips that can help fix the game crashing. In your Steam library, check your game's temporary files. To do this, simply right-click on the name of the toy. Maybe it's the video card? See if there are any new updates for your video card. Update DirectX. In this game, DirectX is required for both the sound card and the video card.

There is a peculiarity in this game: by removing one error, many others may appear.

Try turning off your antivirus with other background applications. Go to Explorer -
C:\Users\(your account)\Documents\My Games\Skyrim.

Find the game file Skyrim.ini. Open and change the line sLanguage=ENGLISH to the line sLanguage=RUSSIAN. Resave the changed file. If suddenly saving doesn’t work for you, then look to see if the bird is next to the “read only” sign.

It happens that upon startup the error Missing X3DAudio1_7.dl appears. Don't be alarmed. To get rid of it and continue playing, install DirectX 9.

If, after opening the Skyrim game, it crashes without loading beyond the game logo, then take a look at the game cache on Steam. Next, remove the FFDshow codec (if you don’t find any codecs, it means you don’t have them. No problem). If the game still crashes, then if possible, restart the game on another Windows. For example: Vista SP2.

If the toy does not work, you should not get upset ahead of time or interrupt Windows for the sake of the game, because it is very easy to launch it through Vista SP2. Find the game shortcut and right-click to open the context menu. Next, select “Compatibility”. There will be that terrible name “Vista SP2”. Next, press the “apply” button.

Try to understand what is happening on your computer and why the game crashes. Every misunderstanding has an answer. Don't be afraid to experiment. Eliminate bugs and start saving the world!

Version: 1.0
Translation:Russian

Description:
If you play Skyrim with a lot of mods, many like me are probably experiencing regular crashes when loading a saved game from the main menu. Initially, the only way to reliably get around this was the "cos qasmoke" console command trick, where you move to the qasmoke cell and then manually load the save from the menu. Some players also relied on loading a save game while in a safe area and performing a second load from there. This fix makes some changes to the “Main Menu” of the game so that when you click on the “Continue” or “Load” button of a saved game, a crash when loading a saved game is prevented, without any difficulties. I automated this process in a previous "Continue Game No Crash" mod that I published a while ago, but it turned out to be less than ideal since it uses an .esp file (and scripts) that took up a pointless place in the mods' loading order. The initial dual boot took longer and many people perceived it as a harmful mod that "supposedly" inserted incorrect data into the save and that as a result they could not even play. As a result, I decided to completely change the mod and fix various problems. With new knowledge of the issues, I decided to publish this fix as a new mod, rather than simply creating an update to the old version of the Continue Game No Crash mod, for reasons I'll explain below.

The first explanation of a problem that you may miss if you have no programming experience. Many people perceived the game crashing under load as a FootIK bug and a memory issue where Skyrim tried to load too much data at once. Other people thought it was due to bad save data preventing the game from loading. The problem is related to the large amount of data to load, but the game crash is caused by multithreading and not because there is not enough memory or due to poor data saving. Essentially, the programmers at Bethesda forgot to write a "mutex" to protect critical data, which allowed one processor core to access data that another processor had not yet finished loading. As a result, a heavily modified game takes longer to load data. People used double load methods to get around loading crashes caused by the fact that there was less data between steps, which reduced the chances of a crash and the data processing was a little faster with the underlying assets being loaded first, and then loading everything else, with the underlying assets being loaded first. already cached in memory. The fix this plugin does is to prevent these crashes and limit the Skyrim game to only use one CPU core when loading. Once the game has finished loading the save, this plugin will allow Skyrim to use all the CPU cores on your system. You may experience slower loading times as a result of the single CPU core limit while loading a game save, but it is usually faster than double loading from the previous version of the "Continue Game No Crash" mod, and once the game has finished loading, all CPU cores will be back on available for use so as not to affect gameplay performance.

The reasons why I had to change the mod to a new version:
* The "Continue Game No Crash" mod may not have been the best since people were looking for things like "load ctd fix" etc. I called it "Continue Game No Crash" initially because the first version of the mod only worked with loading the most recent game, such as the "Continue" button in the main menu.
* Some people believe that my previous mod "Continue Game No Crash" is a harmful mod similar to Stable uGridsToLoad and that it introduced other problems into save games.
* In the new version of the mod there are no scripts, no .esp file, only one .dll file

Note:
- This mod is not guaranteed to work 100% for all players, in an attempt to work around bugs that exist in Skyrim. If this mod and method does not work for you, then some mods may be to blame, and it is very difficult to make the mod work for every computer and game, with every possible combination of mods.

Compatible Mods:
- Compatible with any mod.
- Compatible with Enderal.

Requirements:
Skyrim 1.9.32.0.8
1.07.03 and higher

When updating from the "Continue Game No Crash" mod option to the new "Load Game CTD Fix" option:
1. If you have installed the previous version of the mod called "" and want to switch to the new version "Load Game CTD Fix", then be sure to delete all files
- Delete the startmenu.swf file along the Data/Interface path if there is one, and if you have a mod that contains the startmenu.swf file, then reinstall it.
- Delete the ContinueGameNoCrash.esp file from the Data folder in the game.
- Delete the ContinueGameNoCrash.pex script along the path Data/scripts/
- Delete the file ContinueGameNoCrash.dll in the path Data/SKSE/Plugins/
2. Install a new version of the mod "Load Game CTD Fix".

Installation:(can be done manually or through NMM / MO managers)
Place the SKSE folder from the archive into the Data folder in the game.