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nvidia driver 290.36 beta - broke the game for me. I'm using Hayden's 0.3 patch (like it the best), but it is unlikely the patch has anything to do with it. Also using 4GB, this combo has been working great all week. Updated to the new driver beta today, now the game crawls down to 5 fps and the resolution is all wrong- 6000x1200, works fine with the 285.79 driver, but it's all stretched and jaggied now. Verified skyrimprefs.ini, also tried manually setting resolution in the 0.3 patch launcher, both results the same. Using 2x 570's.

Anyone else have results like this with the new nvidia driver?

nvidia driver 290.36 beta - broke the game for me. ,,,
Anyone else have results like this with the new nvidia driver?

No, its running great here.

This is to everyone (I think I've spotted 3 of us in this thread) whose getting an instant ctd using any of Hayden's fixes. I'm afraid I don't have a solution but I thought I'd let you know that I've tried everything I can think of:

I stripped my pc of any unnecessary processes (literally everything), disabled aero and disconnected from the internet. I set my resolution to 5760 x 1080 and defaulted the Skyrim settings (double checking the prefs). I unplugged all my USB devices, except my keyboard and mouse. I uninstalled and removed my dedicated physx card. I updated my drivers (11.11b Cap 1). I disabled the LAA software. Then I set the fix and the TESV.exe to run as administrator and did so by right-clicking too.
I injected the fix and and ran the TESV.exe - in case steam was the problem :/ - and it crashed straight away, as usual; actually it was quicker, presumably since there were no background applications.
I've since cross checked the system specs of the few people who've had the problem and there doesn't seem to be any correlation beyond all being ATI users but I don't think that's the issue since they're plenty of ATI users in this thread and I doubt it'd be hardware related.

Ultimately it's beyond me, there's obviously something minutely wrong that I can't spot. Helifax's fix still works and is very good, so I'm thankful for that. Incidentally, I have removed mods and defaulted everything in prior attempts to fix this.

Beany (and others). Kayden got me thinking about your issues. Can you try two more things? Firstly, I still suspect somewhere that you have some sort of anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-somethingelse or registry fixer that is doing this. I don't know why, but please see if you have any of these running (or have run them) and let me know. The second thing is entirely ATI related. Use driver 11.9 (yes you read that right), and don't use crossfire if you have two cards. Try these things and let me know!

hmm, I have a hard time editing posts on this board. Oh well, a drop in the bucket in this thread.

In Windows desktop, my monitors are being randomly cheddar'd with resolution scaling issues, obviously the driver since nothing else changed. Uninstalled, reverting to 285.79.

*Edit*
Everything is working as it should (minus Bethesda's support for the PC community that built them) after going back to the previous beta driver. I guess the latest from nvidia just isn't for me.

HaYDeN's fix version 0.4A works like a charm for me @ 5332x1050. Thank you so much! Count me in for a donation! :)

Nevermind about my map not working, 0.4a doesnt work, but 0.4b give me flawless map, THANKS HAYDEN

[quote]No worries man! I really appreciate you taking the time!! thanks a ton!

I tried the "double ALT+TAB" as advised. I opened the game and selected my current saved game (which I hadn't done before), Upon the first ALT+TAB I got out of the game and injected the patch, then ALT+TAB'ed back to the game and it went to the "windowed black" screen as it did before, upon trying ALT+TAB again, it went back in succesfully, though as soon as i tried to go into any menu (inventory, MAP, etc.) it crashed right away.

hmmmm........ thoughts?

It sounds like something is preventing it from running, because it's modifying the memory and is being classified as spyware or something. If you have anything like Spyware Doctor or any other program that runs with real time protection, disable it or go as far as remove it, because I have seen them cause other problems for members on the Techgage forum. As far as the LAA I don't really think you need it cause you can get the game to run with out the fix, and you are running vanilla Skyrim, so texture loading wouldn't be the issue here. At this point anything else I can think of does not account for the fact you can run it with out the fixes, it has to be a third party program shutting it down because it thinks it is spyware, malware or virus. I don't think AVG is the problem or we would see a more persistent pattern with other WSGF members I think, so I really think it's something rarely used like Spyware Doctor or something close to it. I wish there another scenario I could think of that would be causing this, but I can't, sorry at this point I'm out of ideas.

Thanks for trying man, I went as far as uninstalling AVG (for good measure), and still the crashing continues. I don't have any other spyware/malware software installed, SO I'm STUMPED. I have tried using Helifax's fix, it works, but the HUD isn't centered it's deviated to the left (crosshair and all). My Resolution is 5760x1200 (NO Bezel Comp.). I've tried using your (Kayden) Multi-Montior resolution files (the 5760 version) but it remains the same. Any thoughts on that?


UPDATE:
I went into the original file, and edited all the parameters that were 1743 to 1920, and all parameters that were 5230 to 5760, and that seemed to work for me, and the hotkeys for books and the map. NO more off centered HUD for me.

BTW, does anyone have any info regarding whether Xfire will ever work with this game? I hate that I have a 6990 with two GPUs on it, and I'm only getting the performance of one GPU!

Just an update - Hayden's 0.3 and up work fine now on 64 bit Windows 7. My guess is that Win7 32 bit isn't compatible with Hayden's 0.3+ app. Same hardware, same drivers (except 64 bit versions) and minimal Win7 x64 install as my Win7 32 bit setup.

All in all, many thanks Hayden!

Just an update - Hayden's 0.3 and up work fine now on 64 bit Windows 7. My guess is that Win7 32 bit isn't compatible with Hayden's 0.3+ app. Same hardware, same drivers (except 64 bit versions) and minimal Win7 x64 install as my Win7 32 bit setup.

All in all, many thanks Hayden!

There is no code that 32bit specific, infact the application itself is compiled as 32bit and runs in 32bit mode even on 64bit operating system as the target game (Skyrim) is also 32bit.

Odd.

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