Oldrim refuses to launch after pressing play.

[Fulgerion]

Final Edit: I have given up, none of the solutions presented to me have worked. I had hope to play Oldrim again for some fun mods that are not supported on Special Edition, but alas. All seems to be lost.

If you have skills in debugging, here is my error code. This should be all you need to debug the issue.

Faulting application name: TESV.exe, version: 1.9.32.0
Faulting module name: TESV.exe, version: 1.9.32.0
Exception code: 0xc0000005 (I know what this one is, but this is not the answer, "Fault offset" is the important one)
Fault offset: 0x01988311 (Hint: this is the error code that has the answer to my problem)



Fresh install, no mods. The game crashes before it's able to start the game. No known corruption. Game is completely dead.

When I said no mods. that means no mods. The "mod" category includes 3rd party software.
Further clarification for the TLDR: THIS IS 100% VANILLA SKYRIM.
No I have not installed the unofficial patch. I always run a game once to test!

Other games run as expected. This is only Oldrim. Skyrim: SE and VR can be installed if you so desire if it would help anything.

[Alex]

1. Can the launcher recognize your video card? Which one do you have?
2. Do you have any memory managers, mod managers, ENB or SKSE active?
3. Does the crash log say anything?
4. Are other games running properly?
5. Have you tried verifying the game files?

[Fulgerion]

Originally posted by Alex:

1. Can the launcher recognize your video card? Which one do you have?
2. Do you have any memory managers, mod managers, ENB or SKSE active?
3. Does the crash log say anything?
4. Are other games running properly?
5. Have you tried verifying the game files?

1: 3070Ti. Apparently the launcher believes I have two 3070Ti cards when I only have one. Issue persists selecting #2. No I don't have duplicate drivers. I'm not that casual. That or the list is just weird, and it only actually sees one.
2: I said "No mods" Read.
3: Location please
4: Yes
5: again, read. I said "no known corruption found"
5a: There is reportedly an issue that may happen to all clients. That Steam will always find something missing and reset your video settings, corrupted or not.

[Fulgerion]

Originally posted by Alex:

3. Does the crash log say anything?

You are welcome to the Windows error log if you understand WinDbg and software debugging.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Fulgerion:

1: 3070Ti. Apparently the launcher believes I have two 3070Ti cards when I only have one. Issue persists selecting #2. No I don't have duplicate drivers. I'm not that casual. That or the list is just weird, and it only actually sees one.
2: I said "No mods" Read.
3: Location please
4: Yes
5: again, read. I said "no known corruption found"
5a: There is reportedly an issue that may happen to all clients. That Steam will always find something missing and reset your video settings, corrupted or not.

1. Oldrim is quite fickle with newer video cards. Have you tried reinstalling the video drivers? If that doesn't work, downgrade it by a full version and try again.
2. And I specifically asked about stuff other than mods.
3. Skyrim will generate a crash.log in its root folder. Or, install this SKSE plugin: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106929?tab=description
4. Good
5. Well, I didn't know that "No corruption" would refer to steam. It could mean hard drive integrity as well.

[Iron Knights]

If you installed the Unofficial Patch, that is not for the Original Skyrim, happened to me.
Look at your load list and remove it.

[Fulgerion]

Originally posted by Alex:

Originally posted by Fulgerion:

1: 3070Ti. Apparently the launcher believes I have two 3070Ti cards when I only have one. Issue persists selecting #2. No I don't have duplicate drivers. I'm not that casual. That or the list is just weird, and it only actually sees one.
2: I said "No mods" Read.
3: Location please
4: Yes
5: again, read. I said "no known corruption found"
5a: There is reportedly an issue that may happen to all clients. That Steam will always find something missing and reset your video settings, corrupted or not.

1. Oldrim is quite fickle with newer video cards. Have you tried reinstalling the video drivers? If that doesn't work, downgrade it by a full version and try again.
2. And I specifically asked about stuff other than mods.
3. Skyrim will generate a crash.log in its root folder. Or, install this SKSE plugin: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106929?tab=description
4. Good
5. Well, I didn't know that "No corruption" would refer to steam. It could mean hard drive integrity as well.

1: I already speculated this the first time it happened. I didn't think to write it down. I can perform this easily and get back to you.
3: Fancy. First place I looked. No crash logs there. It's crashing before that particular part of program is able to function. Therefore no longs are able to be generated. Hence the reason I offerd my Windows log.
Can be done.


5: "File integrity violations" = corruption Meaning the data integrity of the file is compromised AKA corrupted. And it violated Steam's method of verifying the file integrity.

2: Anything modifying the game is a mod. Doesn't matter what it is. If I use ReShade, it's a mod. If I use an overlay, it's a mod. And third party application that enhances or otherwise interacts with the game is a mod. It's not strictly a graphical concept. This is simplified for stability reasons.

[Fulgerion]

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

If you installed the Unofficial Patch, that is not for the Original Skyrim, happened to me.
Look at your load list and remove it.

What did I say...

This qualifies as a mod or third party.

This is a fresh, vanilla install. NOTHING else has been done.

1: Nothing Skyrim related on PC, including the registry.
2: Installs Skyrim directly from Steam
3: I press play, launcher starts
4: Press play on launcher, it crashes before the game executable has a chance to run So it'ch crashing before the program can finish booting. It's INSTANT crash. Like, not even a blink on taskbar. It doesn't even pop up up in Task Manager. It's not even crashing really. It's failing to even start. Like when your vehicle doesn't have spark plugs. You have the integrity, you have the fuel. Just not the spark to start the engine.
5: I don't even have the DLC enabled yet. Those are disabled by default.

[Fulgerion]

Originally posted by Alex:

3. Skyrim will generate a crash.log in its root folder. Or, install this SKSE plugin: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106929?tab=description

Your only option here is Windows error log. The crash log mod doesn't work because the game isn't launching for any of that to load, let alone function.

And If I ever have issues, they are never ever simple. Ever. In my 30 years of gaming. I get the most complicated issues.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Double check your VC runtimes. It's possible you might be missing one. I ran into the reverse problem as you, yesterday. I was trying to install SSE, and I was missing the 2022 runtime on my old laptop. Installed that and it ran right.

Older games would need older runtimes. Double check to make sure you have to 2010 one for oldrim.

Specifically, you need Visual C++ Redistributable Package 2010, the x86 version.

Check the obvious, just in case. Update Direct X, update video card drivers if you haven't yet. Those can cause crash to desktop issues, as well.

Another thing to check would be to make sure that Windows is trying to use your high end GPU. Oldrim will SOMETIMES default to using the on-board GPU, which 9/10 times won't run it at all and could cause a crash. Check those settings with whichever GPU brand you have.

[Fulgerion]

Originally posted by Harrison Ford:

Double check your VC runtimes. It's possible you might be missing one. I ran into the reverse problem as you, yesterday. I was trying to install SSE, and I was missing the 2022 runtime on my old laptop. Installed that and it ran right.

Older games would need older runtimes. Double check to make sure you have to 2010 one for oldrim.

Specifically, you need Visual C++ Redistributable Package 2010, the x86 version.

Check the obvious, just in case. Update Direct X, update video card drivers if you haven't yet. Those can cause crash to desktop issues, as well.

Another thing to check would be to make sure that Windows is trying to use your high end GPU. Oldrim will SOMETIMES default to using the on-board GPU, which 9/10 times won't run it at all and could cause a crash. Check those settings with whichever GPU brand you have.

I don't have an onboard GPU.

Strangely enough Steam often installs runtimes if not detected on the system.

Let's see. Visual C++ Redistributable Package 2010 x86 is installed, has been for ages. Many other things use it.
.Net 3.5 is installed. Has been for a long time as many other things use it.


DirectX is updatable? I have never seen any DirextX update, not even in windows. Unless it's packaged with standard OS updates. Because you aren't going to find a standalone package. It's a barebones Windows thing now. I haven't seen a DirectX installer since Windows XP

GPU is updated, though GPUs nowadays shouldn't have any issues on games this old out of the box with Windows drivers, unless it's a magic bug explicity tied to that GPU, In that case you are boned XD. Issues like that are usually issues that have been found when Oldrim was new.

Normally a GPU driver crash would be something the game is using that the GPU driver doesn't know about. Or it's a driver level conflict with the software, and in this case. I'm boned because you need to talk to nVidia and Bethesda about that.

[Fulgerion]

The Skyrim folder contains all the parts needed for the game. All of those are already installed. And.... If I recall, I believe Windows or the game will tell you if you are missing any of them.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Fulgerion:

1: I already speculated this the first time it happened. I didn't think to write it down. I can perform this easily and get back to you.
3: Fancy. First place I looked. No crash logs there. It's crashing before that particular part of program is able to function. Therefore no longs are able to be generated. Hence the reason I offerd my Windows log.
Can be done.


5: "File integrity violations" = corruption Meaning the data integrity of the file is compromised AKA corrupted. And it violated Steam's method of verifying the file integrity.

2: Anything modifying the game is a mod. Doesn't matter what it is. If I use ReShade, it's a mod. If I use an overlay, it's a mod. And third party application that enhances or otherwise interacts with the game is a mod. It's not strictly a graphical concept. This is simplified for stability reasons.

1. I've had games refusing to work just because they disliked a particular driver version.
2. In case of Skyrim, "mods" usually refers to user-made content. Well, it's just semantics.
3. While the Skyrim log would be more informative, if it's not generated, then it cannot be helped. You can provide the Windows log, of course.

5. I simply remembered a case here, where Skyrim load problems were caused by a badly fragmented HDD.

[Fulgerion]

Originally posted by Alex:

Originally posted by Fulgerion:

1: I already speculated this the first time it happened. I didn't think to write it down. I can perform this easily and get back to you.
3: Fancy. First place I looked. No crash logs there. It's crashing before that particular part of program is able to function. Therefore no longs are able to be generated. Hence the reason I offerd my Windows log.
Can be done.


5: "File integrity violations" = corruption Meaning the data integrity of the file is compromised AKA corrupted. And it violated Steam's method of verifying the file integrity.

2: Anything modifying the game is a mod. Doesn't matter what it is. If I use ReShade, it's a mod. If I use an overlay, it's a mod. And third party application that enhances or otherwise interacts with the game is a mod. It's not strictly a graphical concept. This is simplified for stability reasons.

1. I've had games refusing to work just because they disliked a particular driver version.
2. In case of Skyrim, "mods" usually refers to user-made content. Well, it's just semantics.
3. While the Skyrim log would be more informative, if it's not generated, then it cannot be helped. You can provide the Windows log, of course.

5. I simply remembered a case here, where Skyrim load problems were caused by a badly fragmented HDD.

i use SSD
and yea, semantcs XD
hmmmm

[cheshirm]

run game from game folder .exe and NOT from steam library or an icon. sometimes an error msg appears not hidden by steam.

check windows event viewer and windows reliability history. might be a game crash event or system related issues.

does the game create folder
Documents\My Games\Skyrim
containing files RendererInfo.txt Skyrim.ini SkyrimPrefs.ini
if not might have a permission issue. check antivirus log and windows security/controlled folder access.

[Fulgerion]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

run game from game folder .exe and NOT from steam library or an icon. sometimes an error msg appears not hidden by steam.

check windows event viewer and windows reliability history. might be a game crash event or system related issues.

does the game create folder
Documents\My Games\Skyrim
containing files RendererInfo.txt Skyrim.ini SkyrimPrefs.ini
if not might have a permission issue. check antivirus log and windows security/controlled folder access.

Already performed. No dice.

Faulting application name: TESV.exe, version: 1.9.32.0
Faulting module name: TESV.exe, version: 1.9.32.0
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x01988311

Should be all you need to debug it.