Skyrim and Drivers

[mornal]

Currently trying to play Skyrim but after playing for anywhere from less than a minute to 2 hours my screen goes black and my monitor says it isn't receiving a signal. I believe that this is a graphics driver problem but haven't had any luck fixing it.

This same exact problem occurs with Fallout New Vegas when entering VATS. Also, while I'm lucky to play Skyrim for 30 minutes I can play Battlefield 3 on high settings until I ragequit.

I also used Hardware Monitor to take temperature readings.
While I'm typing this my graphics card is 96F (36C).
Loading up the exterior world of Skyrim and then closing puts me at ~155F (this is also roughly the same temperature that the card runs at for Battlefield 3).
Playing in an interior cell of Skyrim was ~140F.

Specs:
i5 2400 3.1GHz
AMD Radeon HD 6870
8GB RAM
All drivers up-to-date
(Can post more if needed)

Solutions tried so far:
Putting it on low.
Disabling Steam Overlay.
Rolling back AMD drivers from 11.10 to 11.9

 

[Iph23]

This exact same thing is happening to me, on a 6850. Let me know if you get it fixed please

I have similar specs

i5-2500k
AMD Radeon HD 6950
8GB RAM
Current drivers (11.10)
750 watt power
Windows 7 64bit

and mine will stutter and freeze no matter what setting and res I use. Eventually the whole game crashes and I receive a notice that the video driver has crashed and been restarted or some such thing so I think the problem is simply AMD dropped the ball on releasing a performance driver for this game (like Nvidia was kind enough to do for their customers on 11/10, and from what I've heard they have no problems playing Skyrim). Now the waiting game begins for AMD's updated driver to come out...

 

[Lephys]

I've had that problem before, in other games. I want to say Starcraft 2 did it for a little while. I think I just fixed it by completely wiping every trace of an ATI driver (and Catalyst and all that jazz) off my system, even cleaning the registry, then re-installing the newest driver. Of course, that might not be the case here, but I have had the very same crashing and that same message occur with other games.

 

[daviddoff]

I've had that problem before, in other games. I want to say Starcraft 2 did it for a little while. I think I just fixed it by completely wiping every trace of an ATI driver (and Catalyst and all that jazz) off my system, even cleaning the registry, then re-installing the newest driver. Of course, that might not be the case here, but I have had the very same crashing and that same message occur with other games.

ty i will test the thing u said
The fps increace by 5-10 without Vsynk, but i still feel som lagg i the grafic

 

[lncognito]

I am currently running on a 5770 with 11.9 drivers and the game is smooth, no artifacts, screen flickering or anything else. Game resolution is 1920x1080, 55-60 FPS, all details on High, no AF, no AA.

OMG, can you PLEASE link me to the part on the site you got the drivers!? I have the same cardI believe. It is the XFX Radeon HD 5770. I THINK that my game will not play because of this very reason, crashes! I would be VERY grateful!


I tried to update drivers for my GPU, but I think that perhaps I did not install them correctly. I have version: 8.911.0.0

Sorry if I was not supposed to ask this here!

 

[Eldd]

OMG, can you PLEASE link me to the part on the site you got the drivers!? I have the same cardI believe. It is the XFX Radeon HD 5770. I THINK that my game will not play because of this very reason, crashes! I would be VERY grateful!


I tried to update drivers for my GPU, but I think that perhaps I did not install them correctly. I have version: 8.911.0.0

Sorry if I was not supposed to ask this here!

Here's the link for video drivers previous to 11.11.


http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/previous/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

 

[Ridonk]

The 5770 is running the game pretty well, especially for a single slot card. I've been getting solid 40 fps performance on Ultra with the FXAA post-process injector mod and a couple other graphic enhancing mods I found. I find it funny that this generation-old card from their budget-performance line is outperforming some of the performance cards of the 6-series.

 

[Eldd]

The 5770 is running the game pretty well, especially for a single slot card. I've been getting solid 40 fps performance on Ultra with the FXAA post-process injector mod and a couple other graphic enhancing mods I found. I find it funny that this generation-old card from their budget-performance line is outperforming some of the performance cards of the 6-series.

Indeed, this card is performing so well in most games, at high resolutions. It's still amazing to me, hope the new one I'll be upgrading to (the 6950) will not be a let down. I know it shouldn't, but I've read of so many people having issues with that series.

 

[daviddoff]

Hd6870 is great as singel card, cf is the problem :/ I upgraded from a xfx hd5770 card, and the 6870 is a stronger card i feel, but iccues with drivers is really ignoring btw... may take the second card out of the box and run singel insted ***..

 

[tekmage]

Currently trying to play Skyrim but after playing for anywhere from less than a minute to 2 hours my screen goes black and my monitor says it isn't receiving a signal. I believe that this is a graphics driver problem but haven't had any luck fixing it.

This same exact problem occurs with Fallout New Vegas when entering VATS. Also, while I'm lucky to play Skyrim for 30 minutes I can play Battlefield 3 on high settings until I ragequit.

I also used Hardware Monitor to take temperature readings.
While I'm typing this my graphics card is 96F (36C).
Loading up the exterior world of Skyrim and then closing puts me at ~155F (this is also roughly the same temperature that the card runs at for Battlefield 3).
Playing in an interior cell of Skyrim was ~140F.

Specs:
i5 2400 3.1GHz
AMD Radeon HD 6870
8GB RAM
All drivers up-to-date
(Can post more if needed)

Solutions tried so far:
Putting it on low.
Disabling Steam Overlay.
Rolling back AMD drivers from 11.10 to 11.9

I noticed that nobody has mentioned this so I will. This fix was for games that were crashing during the intro but it may work for you since it fixed my gf's computer from crashing. Adjust your sound to 44.1 khz, 24 bit in your sound settings.

 

[mornal]

I found a decent fix. Download the enbseries patch for Skyrim and just extract it into the Skyrim folder in the steam directory. Link: http://enbdev.com/download_en.htm

Still have the occasional crash, but I've been able to play for hours without one.

 

[tekmage]

I'm not sure if the mods attribute to my stability but it certainly makes the game very nice to look at. (no more blocky faces, detailed faces v2, FXAA post process injector at preset 2, enhanced blood textures, detailed bodies, vurt's skyrim flora overhaul, and high quality eyes. All of these are available at Skyrim Nexus) I've been running these about 40 hours of the 56 hours I've put into the game. Give them a try. I run AA on 2x, AF on 8x, decals ultra, everything else on high except blur on medium.

 

[lncognito]

Here's the link for video drivers previous to 11.11.


http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/previous/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

Thank you! If I may ask one more question... It is not allowing me to run in full window, just windowed mode. It says something about a rendering issue ( I created a thread about it actually). Any thoughts??

 

[daviddoff]

Thank you! If I may ask one more question... It is not allowing me to run in full window, just windowed mode. It says something about a rendering issue ( I created a thread about it actually). Any thoughts??

Go to option befor you start the game and check out the window mode option

 

[JDFan]

Thank you! If I may ask one more question... It is not allowing me to run in full window, just windowed mode. It says something about a rendering issue ( I created a thread about it actually). Any thoughts??

IF it is a Failed to initialize renderer error that usually means that you set a resolution that the system thinks your monitor does not support - make sure the setting you are using is actually supported by your monitor and if you can find an .inf file (monitor driver file from the manufacturer) for you monitor so that windows has the capabilities of it (the .inf file tells windows what your monitor supports - and not using the one for your specific monitor will have windows use a generic one that may not support all of the resolutions that you monitor does - but it is getting hard to find some of them since manufacturers think the windows OS ones are useable instead of them providing specific ones for each monitor.

 

[tekmage]

Thank you! If I may ask one more question... It is not allowing me to run in full window, just windowed mode. It says something about a rendering issue ( I created a thread about it actually). Any thoughts??

This isn't really a fix but a workaround to your issue. Hopefully this will let you play Skyrim and play in pseudo full screen mode

simple borderless window

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4