What the hell is it with this game?
I don't get it. Yesterday I played the game for two separate sessions of around 4 hours each. No problems at all. I saved at High Hrothgar and exited until today. In fact since the 1.5 patch I've had very few issues with CTD's and freezes.
Now tonight I can't play at all because the game freezes my system completely after a few minutes. The game just stops dead and I had another infinite loading screen as well. I haven't done anything today except browse the Internet and nothing else has changed. I'm about ready to give up for good this time, but tomorrow I'll try reinstalling my graphic drivers just for kicks since I've done everything else like verify the game cache, defrag, make sure the PC is dust free etc, etc ad nauseum. Last resort will be to reinstall the game, but I'm not in the mood to do that just now and I'm certainly not reinstalling Windows for one blasted game to run properly.
Five times I tried to play tonight with the same result and I'm concerned about my HDD's with having to reset from so many hard freezes. I only bought my new HDD a few months ago because the last one died (faulty and different brand) and I don't want it to happen again.
I used to spend a lot of time troubleshooting Oblivion, usually because of mods, so I don't blame the actual game and I could fix my issues by research or just from previous experience. A console port is another thing entirely because even a player like myself who researches and makes sure everything possible is checked is out of luck.
I haven't installed any new mods except for an armour mod, but that was days ago and everything was running well until tonight, so who knows.
It seems I will never get a character past level 57 (my 1st character before her saves were corrupted) or finish the main quest. It's not a save bloat issue as my saves are only 9MB at level 51 with most of the Guilds completed and a ton of other quests as well. This is so damn frustrating I feel like breaking the disc in half and forgetting I ever heard of Skyrim. I'd rather play my other games that don't do this, some of which are as system intensive, but obviously better optimized.
Screw the DLC if this is going to happen again and again, and since it looks like we won't be getting any new patches from Bethesda any time soon. They haven't fixed a tiny fraction of what the Unofficial Patch team has done.
I said in my other post tonight that I have a love/hate relationship with this game and at the moment I HATE it.
I play games as an escape from reality so this is doing nothing for my depression and anxiety issues.
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