Does Skyrim crash on startup? There are always ways out! A Brief Overview of the Game and Errors

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the fifth part of the series, developed by the American studio Bethesda Game Studios and released on November 11, 2011. The main plot of the project revolves around the prophecy, according to which the dragon Alduin appeared in the world of Skyrim, in order to destroy it. Of course, our hero, who is a dragon-keeper, must destroy him. However, the storyline is not so interesting in the game, and the length will be only 6-7 hours. However, in Skyrim, just a huge number of side quests, which sometimes are many times more interesting story. The very study of the world, which, as before, is completely open for exploration of players, as well as the passage of tasks for various guilds can take a gamer for more than 200 hours. And, importantly, the game is not boring, so a big bow to the developers. The game was awarded the title of "Game of the Year" at many ceremonies, including the Video Game Awards.

Errors and bugs of the game. Ways of their correction

Of course, in a project of such scales as Skyrim, there were various bugs and errors. Consider the most common ones that players face.

1. Skyrim crashes at startup. This is a fairly common mistake for players. Strangely enough, it is connected with sound. You can solve this problem by updating the drivers of your sound card and then restarting the computer. After the above steps go to the sound settings, where we set the mode "stereo". The problem is solved. If you still Skyrim crashes at startup, try updating the drivers to the video card, disabling the antivirus and other unnecessary background applications. Problem still exists? So, you have a weak computer, because Skyrim is very demanding on the resources of your PC. If you use a pirated version of the game (downloaded from the torrent), try installing patch 1.2, which, according to the developers, should fix the problems with the sound, and, therefore, the error "Skyrim crashes at startup".

2. After the game starts, Skyrim sometimes crashes with a Missing X3DAudio1_7.dl error. This problem is solved by updating the DirectX 9 libraries.

3. The game constantly slows down and lags, what to do? As it often happens, the problem is solved by updating the drivers of the video card (you can find it on official websites of manufacturers) and DirectX libraries. If the situation has not changed much, lower the "Shadow Detail" level in the settings, since it very heavily loads the system. Also, anti-aliasing can help.

4. The installation issue is "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Install Fails, Can not Install". If you encounter this error, try to remove the old versions of "Microsoft Visual c ++" and install the latest version.

5. If you Skyrim crashes when you start on the pirated version, then, probably, the library of the game is just damaged. Try downloading another torrent.

Most in-game bugs are resolved by installing patches. If you have a license from Steam, it will happen automatically. If the pirated version, then download from the Internet.

Add-ons for Skyrim

For the game officially came 4 additions. The very first included high-resolution textures, which PC gamers lacked so much. DLC can be downloaded absolutely free of charge in Steam. Further, the company-producer was released a global story addition Dawnguard for Skyrim. The main theme of the supplement was the vampires, one of which could be the player himself. 3 DLC was insignificant and included the possibility of building a house, as well as obtaining the right to adopt children. The last addition, released for the game, is called Dragonborn. DLC will take the player to the island of Solstheim, which is characterized by many interesting things: plot and side tasks, dungeons, new enemies, tombs and the like. In general, playing the game Skyrim will be interesting, do not hesitate.