Game is is starting to crash very frequently seemingly at random

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I have no mods installed besides the Creation Club stuff that came with the Anniversary DLC, I've been playing on a new save for like 50 hours and everything was running smoothly, but recently my game has started crashing kind of frequently despite me having made no changes to the files or installed any mods. It's not just when entering areas or fast traveling, it's happening at random while I'm just out and about in the open world, the screen just goes black and Skyrim closes itself a moment later, I can run the game perfectly well so it's not a performance issue either. It's starting to get annoying to the point that I'm considering just uninstalling, is there something I can do to fix this? It might be worth mentioning that I don't have the Unofficial Patch installed since I'm trying to get the achievements and it seems that installing mods disables them, but this is something that's happening regardless of where I'm at or what I'm doing.

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I've already tried verifying the integrity of the files but this has done nothing to fix the issue. Uh, I also run the game at ultra settings but I had no issues with crashing for the first 50ish hours of my playthrough so I'm not sure if that could be the problem.

[JMSonomaki]

I'm facing this issue as well. I couldn't even open the game at all. Was planning to replay the game in survival mode today. I hope they will fix the game soon.

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Publicado originalmente por JMSonomaki:

I'm facing this issue as well. I couldn't even open the game at all. Was planning to replay the game in survival mode today. I hope they will fix the game soon.

The game last got an update almost 2 years ago, so I doubt Bethesda is going to go back and fix this. Unless they still update the game but just don't put out patch notes idk

[steventirey]

Publicado originalmente por Quixotic:

Publicado originalmente por JMSonomaki:

I'm facing this issue as well. I couldn't even open the game at all. Was planning to replay the game in survival mode today. I hope they will fix the game soon.

The game last got an update almost 2 years ago, so I doubt Bethesda is going to go back and fix this. Unless they still update the game but just don't put out patch notes idk

Game was updated in December of last year, and and then again in January to fix some issues. They just stopped updating the news on Steam to reflect that.

[Sep]

Publicado originalmente por Quixotic:

The game last got an update almost 2 years ago, so I doubt Bethesda is going to go back and fix this. Unless they still update the game but just don't put out patch notes idk

Skyrim latest update is 1170 which is around mid January this year. If you are playing at older saves, odds are the save is corrupted.

Also, the current CC pages was a mess and you can easily mistaken a regular mod and CC mod as the same one. Make sure the mod you use have CC tag on it.

[Alex]

1. Provide your PC's specifications.
2. A mod list would be helpful. If possible, sorted and together with the LOOT summary.
3. How big are your saves?
4. How often do you use auto- or quicksaves?

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Publicado originalmente por Alex:

1. Provide your PC's specifications.
2. A mod list would be helpful. If possible, sorted and together with the LOOT summary.
3. How big are your saves?
4. How often do you use auto- or quicksaves?

I have a AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics 3.60 GHz
and 16.0 GB of RAM. No mod list as I'm only using the add-ons that the Anniversary edition includes. I currently have 10 save files on my character if that's what you're asking, I try to quicksave every so often whenever I'm in the middle of a dungeon or have been out in the open world for a while and I hard save like roughly every hour or so, the game also autosaves every time I enter a new area or fast travel.

[Alex]

1. The CPU is passable enough, but it would be better to have a dedicated video card.
2. No ENB or something like that?
3. No, I mean how big is each save?
4. Don't rely on quicksaves, they are prone to corruption.

-Check how hot your CPU gets. This thing is barely sufficient for gaming, after all.
-Start a new character, and see if it crashes.
-If you have a HDD, defrag it.

[Altbert]

As Alex already mentioned, do not rely on quicksaves, but also don't rely on autosaves. Disable those in the main menu and only rely on manual hard saves (Esc -> Save).

[StreamWhenGuy]

Regulars trying to be helpful when they can't read past the title when it's clearly stated that the game is unmodded in the very first sentence... 🤦‍♂️
By how big the saves are he meant the size of an individual save file as they tend to get bigger the more you play the game...

OP, your game is crashing because it's Skyrim. It may or may not be related to auto or quicksaves since there is a bunch of people who'll tell you that they've completed the game several time with hundreds of hours on record just well during one playthrough pressing that quicksave button like maniacs with no issues.
The only real advise here is not to play the game unmodded with higher than 60 FPS. I'm afraid there's no fix to your crashing issues aside from starting over or/and adding some stability mods: SSE Display Tweaks, SSE Engine Fixes, USSEP (debatable).

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Publicado originalmente por Alex:

1. The CPU is passable enough, but it would be better to have a dedicated video card.
2. No ENB or something like that?
3. No, I mean how big is each save?
4. Don't rely on quicksaves, they are prone to corruption.

-Check how hot your CPU gets. This thing is barely sufficient for gaming, after all.
-Start a new character, and see if it crashes.
-If you have a HDD, defrag it.

1. I'm using a friend's old computer that he gave me when he upgraded his so yeah, not really the best but it usually gets the job done as long as the job isn't not crashing at a gradually more frequent rate or running any modern game, namely the Dead Space remaster, not even at the lowest possibly settings :(
2. Nope, nothing of the sort.
3. Ah, sorry, my bad, I couldn't find my save files so I had to look it up. Apparently they're all around the 6k KB, the biggest at 6.4k KB, I'm not sure how big or small that is.
4. I'll be sure to stop relying them and to disable autosaves. Speaking of saves, I checked another character I had and I deleted all but one of its save files, and that seems to have made the game stop crashing, I did the same with my current character but left 5 saves instead. So problem solved? Maybe? It's not like I had hundreds of saves either.

I checked and my PC was only a bit warm while running the game at high settings, so it seems that isn't an issue, I think.
Unfortunately my knowledge about PCs is about on par with that of a toddler's so I have no idea how I could upgrade it, maintain it, or even what a dedicated video card is lol or an HDD for that matter, but I do know that I have an SSD somewhere in there which I imagine is related to that, and I decided to move Skyrim on there since I have the vague understanding that SSD = better-er. You don't have to explain any of those things btw, I was just saying.

[Sep]

Publicado originalmente por Quixotic:

1. I'm using a friend's old computer that he gave me when he upgraded his so yeah, not really the best but it usually gets the job done as long as the job isn't not crashing at a gradually more frequent rate or running any modern game, namely the Dead Space remaster, not even at the lowest possibly settings :(
2. Nope, nothing of the sort.
3. Ah, sorry, my bad, I couldn't find my save files so I had to look it up. Apparently they're all around the 6k KB, the biggest at 6.4k KB, I'm not sure how big or small that is.
4. I'll be sure to stop relying them and to disable autosaves. Speaking of saves, I checked another character I had and I deleted all but one of its save files, and that seems to have made the game stop crashing, I did the same with my current character but left 5 saves instead. So problem solved? Maybe? It's not like I had hundreds of saves either.

I checked and my PC was only a bit warm while running the game at high settings, so it seems that isn't an issue, I think.
Unfortunately my knowledge about PCs is about on par with that of a toddler's so I have no idea how I could upgrade it, maintain it, or even what a dedicated video card is lol or an HDD for that matter, but I do know that I have an SSD somewhere in there which I imagine is related to that, and I decided to move Skyrim on there since I have the vague understanding that SSD = better-er. You don't have to explain any of those things btw, I was just saying.

Make sure you disable steam cloud save. From the way you describe it, it sounds like steam cloud save have something to do with it.

And steam cloud save isn't exactly reliable.

[Alex]

1. This PC is good enough for older games. But if you want something better, then it would be necessary to give it a dedicated (discrete) video card. Currently, it's using a built-in (onboard) one primarily meant for office work. If you don't understand what that means, you could ask your friend about it, or just continue to play less demanding games.
2. Okay.
3. Yes, the size is normal. Still, just as Sep said, disable steam's cloud saves
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/68D2-35AB-09A9-7678#enabling
That might have been the issue all along.
4. Autosaves are fine as a last fallback in the case of a crash. Basically, the issue is that for a full save, the game pauses to "paint" a complete picture, but auto/quicksaves are just snapshots made on the fly. Seldom, this may leave stuff out, which could damage the save.

P.S. Yes, using a SSD is certainly better.