Any Skyrim players? (5 Viewers)

[boutte]

I got in to it late and it made me realize how badly I needed to upgrade my PC. So I bit the bullet and bought a nice new machine with the lastest i7 Quad core with gobs of memory and a 4gig Nvidia video card. Plugged it all in and loaded up the game.

Windows 8.1 won't play it. And a bunch of other games, especially Steam games.

This made me unhappy. As it turns out you can get it work but none of the solutions that other people have used has worked for me yet. So annoying!

Any ideas?



PS. I'm pretty much hating 8.1 so far. I guess I'll get used to it but a lot of it will continue to suck.

 

[whodatfever]

Install the latest windows update and see if that helps. Fingers crossed.

When it does play, install the mods for Skyrim and you will be playing the most beautiful, deepest gaming experience available anywhere.

Also, there's a VG board that you *might* find useful. Just avoid the one who calls himself "Antipop".

He's..............unstable.

 

[Zardnok]

I have played and enjoyed Skyrim, but I avoid Windows 8 and 8.1. Microsoft is an every other operating system stinks company. Windows 95 was good, Windows 98 stunk. Windows XP was good, Vista stunk. Windows 7 was good, Windows 8 really stunk!

Best of luck resolving your problem.

 

[itztime]

I have no issues at all with 8.1, but when everything fails usually compatibility mode will answer your problems.

Go to the following path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Your Game Name here

Right click on the .exe file not the Launcher though, click compatibility tab and set the compatibility to run XP service Pack 3, click Apply.

You should be able to launch your game.

 

[boutte]

I have no issues at all with 8.1, but when everything fails usually compatibility mode will answer your problems.

Go to the following path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Your Game Name here

Right click on the .exe file not the Launcher though, click compatibility tab and set the compatibility to run XP service Pack 3, click Apply.

You should be able to launch your game.

Thanks I tried that already though.

 

[Watertaco]

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360>PC

Come. At. Me. Bro.

Enjoy that 400 dollar GPU that'll be obsolete in about 9 months.

 

[Galbreath34]

If you have mods installed check plugins.txt in your %Appdata%\Local\Skyrim directory. If you used NMM it often puts two copies of skyrim.esm at the top, which will bork it launching. Also run BOSS to make sure your load order in plugins.txt is correct.

 

[Galbreath34]

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360>PC

Come. At. Me. Bro.

Enjoy that 400 dollar GPU that'll be obsolete in about 9 months.

Nice joke, especially for Skyrim. The vanilla content is so stale and the visuals so weak that I don't think I could stomach even firing it up on an ancient console. Without Syerscote, Falskaar and the rest there's only so many times you can hit the same dungeons and towns, not to mention the same bugs that never got fixed by Bethesda. Also your sense of video card cycles and prices is from 2004. The 680 came out 2 years ago, and basically the 770 is still the same specs repackaged. Takes about 3 years to fall more than a full notch behind the most expensive now, and the top end cards are 900+ when they're the flagship.

 

[antipop]

Peecee is great for first-person sword fighting and tower defense

 

[itztime]

Thanks I tried that already though.

Bummer!

Did you try updating the video card drivers? Do you have 3D settings turned on?

 

[kcirdor]

I have about 100 mods loaded. its almost a whole new game. better user interface. overhauled practically every system and most of the graphics. Now I just need to figure out the order I need to load them and which ones to leave out so that they don't conflict and give me strange seams.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Enjoy that 400 dollar GPU that'll be obsolete in about 9 months.

As opposed to the Xbox 360, which has been obsolete since 2006.

 

[St. Widge]

Peecee is great for first-person sword fighting and tower defense

It's also great if you want to spend your gaming time trying to figure out how the latest Windows patch, Windows update, texture pack, etc. messed up your game so that you can not play it. Such an advantage being able to download all those viruses with your mods and figure out how to make sure they don't conflict with each other.

 

[St. Widge]

I have about 100 mods loaded. its almost a whole new game. better user interface. overhauled practically every system and most of the graphics. Now I just need to figure out the order I need to load them and which ones to leave out so that they don't conflict and give me strange seams.

Q.E.D.

 

[antipop]

As opposed to the Xbox 360, which has been obsolete since 2006.

how was Red Dead Redemption on peecee??