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| Author: | Paradigm Shifter [ 22 Nov 2011, 13:50 ] |
| Post subject: | Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |
Well, I'd been pretty happy with this; OK, so I had to run it in XPSP3 Comp mode to get it to run at all, and it did crash a few times (but in seven hours of gameplay it had crashed three times, which, sadly, I thought was pretty good)... ...and then Bethesda patched it. ... And misery started. Now, I hadn't even tried running the game outside of Steam, as I thought 'Steamworks game will require Steam'... now it turns out, if I'd backed the damned game up, I'd be laughing because I could go back to an .exe file that didn't crash every few minutes. Did any WSGFers think to back the release-day version up? Yup, the patch didn't appear to fix any issues - what it did do was enforce - HARD - Steam DRM, and break just about every mod that had been released. Well done, Bethesda; you've taken a game that was very playable, patched it, and introduced enough crashes that I'm not going to bother playing it for a while now. And well done Steam, for forcing updates, even when I've set the game to 'Do Not Update'. Bah. I used to hate Steam with a burning passion. And I grew to like it, because it made stuff easier to do - no hunting for patches, ability to in-game chat... stuff like that. I am growing to dislike it again. |
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| Author: | Armenius [ 22 Nov 2011, 20:59 ] |
| Post subject: | I think this has more to do |
I think this has more to do with Bethesda not properly supporting Steam out-of-the-box, not on Steam. I understand that memory addresses can change when an executable is recompiled, but they may have also accidentally compiled the executable with Steamworks on a pre-release build. Hopefully the patch coming next week will sort these issues out, although I don't know why they just didn't wait for that patch to patch in Steamworks. |
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| Author: | Haldi [ 22 Nov 2011, 22:01 ] |
| Post subject: | thats why i stayed with |
thats why i stayed with hating Steam with a burning passion! Hopefully bethesda is gonna make a GOTY Edition without Steam! btw... is there no auto Backup function in steam ? :bigsmile: |
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| Author: | thales100 [ 22 Nov 2011, 22:56 ] |
| Post subject: | I'm running the old .exe, you |
I'm running the old .exe, you can download it from here. ;) |
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| Author: | Paradigm Shifter [ 24 Nov 2011, 19:56 ] |
| Post subject: | You rock. Although some |
You rock. :D Although some preliminary tweaking back again seems to have fixed it a bit - turning off all the things which stopped it from crashing on the old .exe stop it from crashing on the new one. I have no idea what they're doing...! |
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| Author: | Gimpylung [ 24 Nov 2011, 20:31 ] |
| Post subject: | The 4GB enabler should help a |
The 4GB enabler should help a lot, its the new version and works fine with the newly steam patched exe... http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013 |
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