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For people crashing out when they alt-tab, are you really crashing?

That is a dumb question, but when I alt-tab, and try to tab back in it appears to be hung; blank window, no mouse since it has been grabbed by TESV.exe, sometimes after a minute it will go back to full screen, but not always. If I did not have as much time behind a computer as I do I would say it was hung and force close it.

What I do is tab back out, which works, I have to move my mouse to the task bar to see it and click to get normal mouse control back on top of the window TESV creates, then I click on the TESV window or alt-tab back to TESV. The game goes back to full screen and works normally. I have not crashed from alt-tabbing at all since release.

This is with Nvidia SLI GTX275's with 280.19 drivers. I have not updated to the encrypted .exe, and am LAA.

Tab to Skyrim, and it'll be a black screen with the windows boarder. Then tab to Skyrim A SECOND TIME and it will work. You have to Alt+Tab to Skyrim twice in a row.

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I'm running 5916x1200 bezel corrected on 2x 570s and get 50-60fps with everything ultra with the exceptions - radial blur off, 2x AA, fshadowdistance=3000

Could it be an underreported SLI issue? If you disable one card, do you get the crash? Well I suppose that now you've fixed it theres no way to test it out.

I can't wait for the radeon crossfire fix, so I can get decent frames on all ultra.

Tab to Skyrim, and it'll be a black screen with the windows boarder. Then tab to Skyrim A SECOND TIME and it will work. You have to Alt+Tab to Skyrim twice in a row.

i have the exact same thing. its like this right out of the box. any alt tab takes 2 trys. the first one just shows me a window border of the game, the second actually takes me into the game

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After you Alt+Tab out, use Windows+Tab to get back in. It will take two tries with Windows+Tab, but it will pop up after the second execution.

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[quote]This stumps me too, c69.

I just tried it to fix the constant CTD issue and it worked. What's really odd is that when I tab out it shows the Skyrim application using 1024MB of system ram, not even 2GB, or more... but it fixes my constant CTD issue (every 10-30 minutes).

System RAM + Video RAM

Ahh, this makes a lot more sense now. I was wondering why ram usage was only at 1GB but this clears that up, thanks, c69.

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I'm running 5916x1200 bezel corrected on 2x 570s and get 50-60fps with everything ultra with the exceptions - radial blur off, 2x AA, fshadowdistance=3000

Could it be an underreported SLI issue? If you disable one card, do you get the crash? Well I suppose that now you've fixed it theres no way to test it out.

I can't wait for the radeon crossfire fix, so I can get decent frames on all ultra.

If I disable one card, no more Nvidia surround ;) Yes, that would fix it! haha, j/k of course.

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i7 sandy 4.4ghz with a snorkel
1080gtx
8gb RAM
Gigabyte P67-UD7 rev. B3
OS -Samsung 840pro 256GB ssd
Games -Samsung 840pro 500GB ssd
Pagefile -crucial 60GB ssd
Storage -2x 4TB WD
PWS -Seasonic Prime 1k Titanium

So are Steam Achievements disabled with the replacement of the .exe?

If true, that's quite unfortunate...

Decided to sit back down and get back in to the game and nope...

"Application load error 3:0000065432"

Now the Skyrim4GB.exe won't launch the game .exe. It was working this morning, any ideas?

I re-verified my steam cache files, said "all validated" and it reset my .ini. Went in and changed res, fshadowdistance, and mouse accel.

Game launches fine without using the 4GB.exe but the first time I did that it ran for about 5 minutes and CTD.

How do you fix it when it won't load the .exe?

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i7 sandy 4.4ghz with a snorkel
1080gtx
8gb RAM
Gigabyte P67-UD7 rev. B3
OS -Samsung 840pro 256GB ssd
Games -Samsung 840pro 500GB ssd
Pagefile -crucial 60GB ssd
Storage -2x 4TB WD
PWS -Seasonic Prime 1k Titanium

We can test the achievement issue relatively quickly. Cinnabuns, if you reach lvl 25 and no achievement pops, then we know its been disabled. Let us know how it goes!

Check this out: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/22/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-patch-ties-launcher-to-steam-breaks-tweaks-and-ram-mod/

It seems the patch broke a lot of other things, including mods.