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this looks fantastic, Keep it up!

Thanks Jac That guide is very useful and I have utilized parts of it in the past and more than likely will again. I've given up on making the game look stupidly realistic now anyway & a few HD textures and such is fine by me.

I must admit I'm quite anxious to try such a heavy handed solution to a the problem. But I fear it may come to that eventualy.

This is all useful information, thank you. I have used tom's hardware in the past, very informative site. As for the make It's a Dell XPS L207x ...? Maybe? :S As for Graphics intensive mods, I tend to go for the 1024 options rather than the silly 2k ones. I did have ENB and some great texture mods running before "The Crashening", though this does now lead me to believe that may have been what caused the crashening.

Thanks! This is good news I suppose! I think I already got rid a lot, if not all of the bloatware, and I've changed the program that run on start-up and such which did free up about 10-15fps in game. Everything runs fine (except skyrim: see other thread) and I don't have any issues, I was really just curious about all the mumbojumbo I didn't understand. I'm begining to owe you one HUGE cookie HY.

this is the problem... I used to be able to play for hours on end with no issues and a modlist of 200+.. but now it just feels fragile.. This is the 4th - 5th time I've reinstalled it all.

So my "temporary workaround" is still working for now, though I do get CTDs loading outside spaces, after about 2-3 hours of play. ( I can live with this if it's not damaging anything. ) Anything even remotely connected to Skyrim in anyway is completely free from hindering folders, (Program Files). But the problems are still occuring, the game is incredibly unstable, and some loading screens take around 3-4 minutes, (sit in silence for 4 minutes, it's longer than it sounds..) This is meant to be a vanilla installation but I've had to use ENBinjector to bypass the launcher issues. I dare not try installing any mods through fear of triggering all these events again.. :l

Thank you for the swift reply I failed to see until now.

Well as some of you have probably realized, I'm not very good at this computer malarkey, (letting my laptop try and boot from an UT2004 disc for weeks) although I thought I was compared to people around me in my everyday life. But as it turns out I'm about as well informed about my system (which I received as a gift from a friend that moved away) as a plank. With a lot of recent system trouble and trouble getting even the smallest programs to run I've started to question my Laptop, though ti'm sure it's just me. What I've been concerned with the most is pushing my poor little laptop too far, as I really don't know if this is an issue, I thought I'd get some advice from you brilliant people. Firstly here's my system's specs, I've tried to look up the individual components online, but it's all just a lot of words I don't really understand. Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU Intel Core i7 2670QM @ 2.20GHz 61 °C Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24) Motherboard Dell Inc. 0XN71K (CPU) 64 °C Graphics - Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1080@60Hz) - 3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M Device ID: 10DE-124D Revision: A2 Subvendor: Dell (1028) Current Performance Level: Level 2 Current GPU Clock: 202 MHz Current Memory Clock: 324 MHz Current Shader Clock: 405 MHz Voltage: 0.820 V Bus Interface: PCI Express x16 Temperature: 60 °C Driver version: 9.18.13.4709 BIOS Version: 70.26.40.00.02 Physical Memory: 3071 MB Virtual Memory: 3072 MB Storage 698GB Western Digital WDC WD7500BPKT-75PK4T0 (SATA) 36 °C Optical Drives HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD CT40N Audio Realtek High Definition Audio Is this a decent gaming machine? I'd like to know if what I have here is worth holding on to or should I maybe buy a more powerful system? Also are there any known hardware/software issues with these components? If these aren't very good, what components might be a better, but cost-effective alternative? Any more information regarding this "set-up" would be hugely appreciated, as from what I can see at the moment, what I have is a laptop... I'll happily answer any other question about it, if I can. Thanks.

Yes, I deleted reinstalled everything involved in Skyrim.

Well after the initial problems began to occur I turned off all UAC for the purposes of getting vanilla working correctly.

Well it seems as though I've found a work around. But this does not seem like a permanent solution.. After reinstalling any program affiliated with Skyrim in anyway whatsoever, e.g, Steam, SKSE, MO, I decided to try and bypass the launcher. Creating the required INIs, Skyrimini & SkyrimPrefsini, myself before play [couldn't get initial creation to occur through play]. This gave me a good shot at my plan working of the bat, so to speak, giving the game everything it should need in order to run without fuss. This in it's self is just a prerequisite of the ENBInjector. The Skyrim INIs need to be written with the injector in mind. Then using the Injector.ini and simply change the "TargetProcess0 = skse_launcher .exe" leaving all the other process targets blank. This action has not been required of me before. While not running the injector same issue as above seems to keep occurring with no apparent fix This has completely bypassed the launcher, therefore solving my problem, if only for now. I can't thank you people enough for the help. Glad I came to this community. I'll update this if I manage to find a more permanent solution to the problem.

Nope, it's got it's own Folder on the disk

Steam is always open throughout this process. [ I did try offline just to be sure ] Even without SKSE and all of it's components the launcher keeps starting itself. So, i'm just running steam and trying to run skyrim now, I've taken MO and SKSE away from the equation, and verified the integirty of the game cache through steam.. and still just going in launcher circles. I have a feeling i'm going to have to contact steam.. :/

Thanks a lot, I've researched a lot of people having the same problem, but whats fixed it for them is UAC and mine's fine.. :S