I'm at level 15 on my first Skyrim playthrough. I started modding right from the start and thanks largely to STEP and support from these forums, as well as the brilliant tool that is MO, my modded game has been very stable. I've only had one CTD and that might have been due to something running in the background on my PC, and not Skyrim itself. Such an improvement over my Oblivion experience.
Last night I experienced my balkiest gaming to date....in a fight with 5-6 actors (me, Lydia, 3 Thalmor and a conjured) the game slowed to around 1Â (one) FPS for 10-15 seconds. As it sloooooowly throttled back up to the ~25 FPS that I was experiencing prior to the near-freeze my character was stuck in block; I was helpless but Lydia finished off the last Thalmor and I was able to break the block by unequipping and requipping my weapons. I waited to save until combat was long over and the game seemed to be running normally for several seconds, then saved and played forward a little while without further problems. I had been playing for an hour or so and my laptop was pretty hot to the touch, maybe it was a heat issue or maybe not. I have my game modded and turned for the best quality I can get at ~25 FPS, and use HiAlgoboost on its default settings for smoother action in combat.
My question is: can this kind of near-freeze or near-crash leave debris behind that will corrupt a save file? Is it safe to proceed based on that save file or should I go back and play that fight again (maybe with graphics settings turned down) until I get through it without experiencing such odd behavior? I ask because of experience with Oblivion, where all my high-level characters eventually succumbed to corrupted saves for no immediately apparent reason, I suspect due to problems that must have started long before the issues became apparent.
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I'm at level 15 on my first Skyrim playthrough. I started modding right from the start and thanks largely to STEP and support from these forums, as well as the brilliant tool that is MO, my modded game has been very stable. I've only had one CTD and that might have been due to something running in the background on my PC, and not Skyrim itself. Such an improvement over my Oblivion experience.
Last night I experienced my balkiest gaming to date....in a fight with 5-6 actors (me, Lydia, 3 Thalmor and a conjured) the game slowed to around 1Â (one) FPS for 10-15 seconds. As it sloooooowly throttled back up to the ~25 FPS that I was experiencing prior to the near-freeze my character was stuck in block; I was helpless but Lydia finished off the last Thalmor and I was able to break the block by unequipping and requipping my weapons. I waited to save until combat was long over and the game seemed to be running normally for several seconds, then saved and played forward a little while without further problems. I had been playing for an hour or so and my laptop was pretty hot to the touch, maybe it was a heat issue or maybe not. I have my game modded and turned for the best quality I can get at ~25 FPS, and use HiAlgoboost on its default settings for smoother action in combat.
My question is: can this kind of near-freeze or near-crash leave debris behind that will corrupt a save file? Is it safe to proceed based on that save file or should I go back and play that fight again (maybe with graphics settings turned down) until I get through it without experiencing such odd behavior? I ask because of experience with Oblivion, where all my high-level characters eventually succumbed to corrupted saves for no immediately apparent reason, I suspect due to problems that must have started long before the issues became apparent.
Thanks for any advice!
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