Windows 11

[spectre_ol]

Hi folks,

Will this game work under Windows 11 (with / without compatibility settings)?

Is anyone using it under win11?

I have this game on win10 and it works great - bugs, but my wife tried the skyrim special edition and it wouldn't work at all no matter what I did. She upgraded from win10 to win11.

Thanks for any help..

[cheshirm]

game ran on win 7 when I bought it. then on win 10. bought new pc and has
been running on my win 11 since last jan. even after the recent win 11 update. ran as is - no compatibility. skyrim se also runs on win 10 and 11

[ralphtobybob]

User Access Control is on by default when Windows is installed.

[forhorsmn]

I'm having the same issue spectre. Haven't been able to play after updating to Win11. Keep getting the error saying "Failed to initialize renderer. Unknown error creating the renderer."

[spectre_ol]

Originally posted by forhorsmn:

I'm having the same issue spectre. Haven't been able to play after updating to Win11. Keep getting the error saying "Failed to initialize renderer. Unknown error creating the renderer."

She would press play in steam or double click the skyrimSE icon and it wouldn't play. I noticed in steam the play would change to stop and back to play after a time.

I set administrator and win7 compatability to 'skyrimSE.exe' and 'skyrimSElaunch.exe' and it would load the launcher, but hitting play would revert to the launcher after a time. She's got a refund as it don't work.

I ask here because I have zero issues playing this game on win10 and was wondering if it would work for her too, though she accepted the stupid upgrade.

Every 2nd version of Windows is poop as far as I believe and I thought I read win10 was to be the last version receiving live updates, not a completely new version, then ms breaks everything by releasing yet another broken windows and attempting to force everyone onto it. Absolute manure..

Maybe she can't play it on her laptop now ms has broken it..

[subxionic]

I had similar problem. I solved the problem of starting Skyrim on Windows 11 by disabling all Windows 11 Exploit Protection settings for the launcher.exe and tesv.exe executables. I didn't check which ones caused the game to crash on startup, but some did. And also allowed access to documents folders (UAC) and I installed it in a folder outside 'program files'.

[MA1SKIY]

I'm telling you, if you live in another country or bought a laptop, you have unicode and system language errors.
Change the system language in the Windows regional standards and everything will work.

[spectre_ol]

Originally posted by jESSyPinkman:

I'm telling you, if you live in another country or bought a laptop, you have unicode and system language errors.
Change the system language in the Windows regional standards and everything will work.

Nope region settings are correct for the country i am in..

[spectre_ol]

Originally posted by subxionic:

I had similar problem. I solved the problem of starting Skyrim on Windows 11 by disabling all Windows 11 Exploit Protection settings for the launcher.exe and tesv.exe executables. I didn't check which ones caused the game to crash on startup, but some did. And also allowed access to documents folders (UAC) and I installed it in a folder outside 'program files'.

I also have windoze 11 but never had issues with skyrim or crashes. I have ets on d:.

years ago on win 10 I had awfull corruption issues with ets after an update and had to move configs & mods away from mydocs to d:/scs games. Cant remember how it was done though.

[alexander_dougherty]

There are no right answers here.

Since windows 7 each installation of windows has been technically unique to the computer it is on. For some there are no problems, for some it won't run no matter what they do, and for some there are problems they eventually overcome.

Skyrim does require a redistribution package from Windows to work, but after that it's a case of guesswork and trying different solutions until it works for you.

[Wizard of Woz]

Who is stupid enough to upgrade to Win 11? By doing so all you are doing is encouraging terrible practices by Microsoft.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

Who is stupid enough to upgrade to Win 11? By doing so all you are doing is encouraging terrible practices by Microsoft.

They stopped supporting Windows 7 and earlier, and Windows 8 was morphed into Windows 10.... and they stopped supporting Windows 8 for those who didn't upgrade to Windows 10...

So for any support you have a choice of Windows 10 or Windows 11....
So it rapidly becomes use those two versions of Windows or use an unsupported windows (with a load of issues due to lack of support) or use a different OS (with all the problems therein)....

[spectre_ol]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

There are no right answers here.

Since windows 7 each installation of windows has been technically unique to the computer it is on. For some there are no problems, for some it won't run no matter what they do, and for some there are problems they eventually overcome.

Skyrim does require a redistribution package from Windows to work, but after that it's a case of guesswork and trying different solutions until it works for you.

Guess I was just plain lucky as I had to do nothing with skyrim.

Personally, I've found every other version of windoze to be good versus the other half that was absolute poo

*95 broken windows
*98 well better than 95 anyway
*ME 98 fixed?
*2000 never owned
*Xp excellent
*Vista rubbish
*Win7 the best
*Win8 never worked and they wouldn't refund
*win10 not bad
*Win11 messed up 10

Not looking forward to 12..

[spectre_ol]

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

Who is stupid enough to upgrade to Win 11? By doing so all you are doing is encouraging terrible practices by Microsoft.

They constantly tried to force you into it all through Win10. I even complained to MS over their trickery of win11 install.

Just before the end of support for win10, the computer reset and they changed one of the questions leading to me getting caught oit in their forced update scam..

[spectre_ol]

So I've uninstalled from steam and removed all the files, forcing a fresh install.

Unfortunately it's going to be some time before it's downloaded due to bandwidth issues.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by spectre_ol:

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

Who is stupid enough to upgrade to Win 11? By doing so all you are doing is encouraging terrible practices by Microsoft.

They constantly tried to force you into it all through Win10. I even complained to MS over their trickery of win11 install.

Just before the end of support for win10, the computer reset and they changed one of the questions leading to me getting caught oit in their forced update scam..

What are you talking about? Win10 is still supported.