Koki on 27/11/2011 at 09:20
"No good deed will go unpunished"
Minifreeze = every several minutes(more often outside, rarely in dungeons, there are locations when it can happen few times in less than a minute) the game freezes for up to 10 seconds. I had minifreezes on the pirated version too - but I just slapped ENBSeries v4 on it and everything was fine. But, of course, ENBSeries doesn't seem to work with the legit version - instant crash with no error message, I don't even get to full screen. Same with ENBSeries v5.
Anyone has any ideas or saw a solution on other forums or whatever? It's a bitch to google it because people can't tell fucking difference between a freeze, a crash and a stutter.
C2D 6600, 460 GTX SE, XP 32bit.
SubJeff on 27/11/2011 at 09:56
You'd best give us the technical definitions of each so that we may better assist then.
Renzatic on 27/11/2011 at 10:09
I've seen what he's talking about. You'll be walking along, then the game will just stop for 5-10 seconds. The music's still playing, so it isn't like a hard CPU freak out freeze. but you can't move or anything while it's doing...whatever it's doing.
Though for me, it only seems to happen when I've been playing for an hour or two, and never seems to happen more than once per session.
The only thing I can suggest is going into users\whatever\documents\my games\Skyrim and adding this to the skyrim.ini file...
[Papyrus]
iMinMemoryPageSize=100000
iMaxMemoryPageSize=5000000
iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=1800000000
I dunno if this does anything at all, truthfully. I haven't seen any big performance gains from adding it. But it could be the one thing that's keeping the game from freezing up on me, save for those rare occasions. It's worth a try.
Edit: specs
AMD Opteron 185
Geforce 8800GTS 512
Win7 x64
Medium Settings
Ulukai on 27/11/2011 at 10:14
Very occasionally get this too (I've seen it maybe 3 times in 20+ hours of play). I seem to recall it was always when I'd been traveling outside a lot, was randomly speculating it might have been loading terrain cells (but shouldn't cause UI thread to freeze, neh?)
High Settings, C2D 7600 Win 7 x64, GTX 560ti
Koki on 27/11/2011 at 10:21
Quote Posted by Renzatic
I've seen what he's talking about. You'll be walking along, then the game will just stop for 5-10 seconds. The music's still playing, so it isn't like a hard CPU freak out freeze. but you can't move or anything while it's doing...whatever it's doing.
Exactly. Already tried the Papyrus fix, didn't change a thing.
I also tried to increase thread priority in Task Manager, but the game doesn't tolerate alt-tabbing(which running a Task Manager is). Any way to set priority with a launch command?
Renzatic on 27/11/2011 at 10:42
Quote Posted by Koki
I also tried to increase thread priority in Task Manager, but the game doesn't tolerate alt-tabbing(which running a Task Manager is). Any way to set priority with a launch command?
I've never tried this with a game, and I don't know if it launching through Steam will mess up the process, but
I think you can set priority by making a shortcut like this...
C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c start /high x:\wherever\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\TESV.exe
Just keep in mind that it's been forever since I've worried about CPU priority. So if it doesn't work, don't blame me. I've probably forgotten some important step somewhere.
I'm kinda wondering if it could be a 32/64 bit or XP vs. 7 issue. I dunno why the game would perform any worse on a 32 bit system, considering it doesn't seem to address more than 2GB ram by default. Same thing with XP or 7. It's a DX9 game, and, once again, use doesn't much ram, so it's not really taking advantage of any of 7s capabilities over XP. Still, it's worth pondering.
Is anyone else here running the game on XP 32-bit?
van HellSing on 27/11/2011 at 11:07
Hmm, I can alt-tab in and out of the game just fine. I lso never encountered the problem described. Running 32bit Win7.
Koki on 27/11/2011 at 11:11
Goddamit, both TES5.exe and SkyrimLauncher.exe run a launcher so I can't do it with a command or I just end up with a High priority launcher. Good fucking job Bethesda, you leave nothing to chance.
van HellSing on 27/11/2011 at 11:21
This is why Steam's forced autoupdates suck.
I can send you the original TES5.exe from before the update when I get home.
Koki on 27/11/2011 at 11:25
That would probably get me banned from Steam.
