SureAI

Greetings,

I decided to register to the forums for this issue I'm having, basically I did a full clean new instal of Skyrim and then Enderal when it was first released and played the game completely fine for about 12 hours with maybe 2 CTD's in that time. (About to be expected from Skyrim in my experience.) But since 1/2 days ago the latest patches (hard to tell which one) I'm suddenly crashing between 10 and 30 minutes of playtime, constantly. It's insane, I wish I could just rollback a couple of versions

I don't know what I can do to help figure out what the problem is but I felt I should report this, it's made me very sad to basically be rendered unable to play Enderal any more.

edit* Ps. I am not using any other mods or anything like that, nothing has changed since I started playing and now except for the updates and that I noticed in the settings it was set to using 2 cores and I switched to 8 cores, which seemed to make the loading times a bit faster... I'm not sure if this also can affect the crashes since it seemed to help a lot with performance.

edit** Good news for now, I decided to test if it was the cores, switched them back down to 2 and while I took a significant hit in my performance and load times I managed to play for an hour without a crash (all the time I had), once I have more time to play I'll report back in, in the mean time it would be nice to get some feedback like "it's a bad idea to use over 2 cores, skyrim wasn't made to handle something like that" or if that should not be the problem at all...

I am thinking it has nothing to do with the patches but rather your save getting larger (older). What size is your save? And if you tend to make new saves often you can see the size change over time. I like to always make a new save just so I can see how it changes over time which makes it easier to troubleshoot. (At least for vanilla Skyrim.)

You could also try installing the Bug fixes and also using ENBoost (without graphic changes) to see if that helps.

Also, for the cores. What is your cpu? If it is an i7 you could try unparking the cores.

Thanks, my current save game is 2.977 kB, I only make new saves, no auto or quick saving. and I do have an i7, an i7 3820.

Another thing to check if you have Windows 10 is the DVR function in the xbox app. It's on by default. I remember it messing with my Skyrim install and I had to disable it.

You could also try removing any thread entries in your ini files. I remember a debate when skyrim was released about whether the threads tweaks really helped that much or not and removing was the safest thing if you weren't sure.