Skyrim Oddities

[Sjakie]

1 thing:
control panel > sound > select your speakers, then 'properties' > advanced

and set to: 24 bits, 44100 Hz

save and exit

That only fixes the Crash at main menu problem. I know about this because it was the only way to actually start the game.

All the other crashes have nothing to do with the sound. I have tried every option in the sound devices. And like I said, it is random. Sometimes I can play for hours, sometimes for a few seconds. Just have to wait for a fix.

Ah, ok then. I got a few CTD's and they where fixed after i changed this. Also i
Did you set your own advanced videosettings in the launcher? try resetting them to one of the presets: low, medium, high or ultra.
Rumor has it something can go wrong when you set your own. i noticed my videosettings got reset after a CTD when i had my own prefs in it.
Now im running at 'ultra' which isnt the perfect setting (sometimes choppy in crowded interiors) but i havent gotten a CTD since (fingers crossed)

 

[kazeryu]

not very much I got attacked my an assasin and one dragon word won't come to me I stood in front of the wall and I heard the sound but the word wasn't highlighted and I didn't learn it
if somewone nows how to fix it please tell me because it sucks if I can't learn that word

 

[Chappy]

Well I dropped down a cliff after I went exploring a mountain and landed behind a giant after promptly running away I found out he stopped chasing me and just stared so I went back and dual shocked him with magic and he started chasing me again.

After a 10 minute game of cat and mouse though which attracted two packs of wolves, a random party of travelers anouther Giant, two mammoths and a pack of wild cats and me shooting off as much magic as I could manage then chugging as many potions as I could (and occasionally being flung half way across the map from a Giant slamming his hammer into the ground and glancing me.) I finally killed one of them and managed to glitch all the others in terrain I got away, with a Giants toe! ^-^

Not a bad start at lv2 but I do think i'll avoid giants from now on.

Also I killed a chicken and the starting village now wants my head apparently.

 

[SovietX]

Ah, ok then. I got a few CTD's and they where fixed after i changed this. Also i
Did you set your own advanced videosettings in the launcher? try resetting them to one of the presets: low, medium, high or ultra.
Rumor has it something can go wrong when you set your own. i noticed my videosettings got reset after a CTD when i had my own prefs in it.
Now im running at 'ultra' which isnt the perfect setting (sometimes choppy in crowded interiors) but i havent gotten a CTD since (fingers crossed)

I will give that a go. I guess I will just have to put it on Ultra until they fix this problem. Thanks.

EDIT: It didnt work. If anything it just made the game lag more and then crash. This is really starting to bug me.

 

[breadsammich]

I matched most enemies I've encounterd quite well, but when I went up the mountain to High Hrothgar I came across a frost troll who kept killing me in 2 strikes....

Yeah, that Frost Troll was a total douche-nozzle. I found it difficult, and I was a Mage, with Fire magic, a Flame summon, destruction dual-casting AND a follower (Lydia, I believe).

It killed me the first time, while I was on my way tp High Hrothgar. Which wouldn't be so bad, if I had saved since leaving Whiterun.

As for oddities, I've had the Thugs come after me, but I just ran off (Mage, cloth armor, high sprint speed against enemies all dressed in what seemed to be heavy armor). I also had a bar-brawl with a bard, to defend to loins of a fair maiden. That was interesting.

I died once on it and decided I didn't have time for its shit. So I used two scrolls of fireball on it, and then shot it with my fire bow until it stopped moving. It still almost got to me though.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

#1,2: How'd you manage to piss people off?

#3: I've actually been looking around online and some people are saying that that's one of those glitchs Bethseda wants to keep

#5: Just get farth enough in the campions quest line. Also, its fun to be a werewolf.

OT:
Well I'm currently stuck in a glitch from the House of Horror quest (see my thread about it).

I punted a spider over a hundred yards. I jumped to attack me at the sametime I hit it with a fully charged Unrelenting shout.

I have decapatated SO many people

1,2: No idea, I guess I either killed the wrong person or in the case of thugs stole something and they didn't /guard report me.

3: I like the giants being hard to kill and hitting you like a baseball. It kinda makes sense and doesn't seem like a bug/glitch to me.

5: I know, I'm currently working on that questline myself. The whole "bite" me thing was a joke but its even funnier how many ppl took me serious.


OT: New things, there is a Pickaxe you find on top of the highest mountain, Throat of the World, called Notched Pickaxe. I'm pretty sure its a Minecraft/Notch reference... There's a subtle Star Trek Next Generation reference in the name of a character, Temba Wide-arm. A couple King Arthur myth references; A sword in a stone, and a skeleton in a lake holding a sword in its hand above the surface (lady in the lake?).
All in all good show Beth, this is a great game.

 

[Knusper]

I had 3 thugs on me when I was leaving Solitude but I ran away because the guards were near and I was being accused of thievery. A couple of times I've come across a band of ominous warrior mages, one of whom tried to kill me.

I've killed 3 dragons in total so far but I'm learning new shouts faster than I'm collecting souls. I joined the Companions in Whiterun and was given a starting quest by someone but he didn't really say what to do and it's not in my journal. Help?

It's not under misc. It gets its own section (I'm about 87% sure)

If it's still not there at all then bug?

Sorry for dp, just figured i'd let this kind soul know what i think is the answer to his/her problem and my last post was pretty big for another quote and explanation :3

No I had a look ,it must be a bug. What did you have to do in the first quest? If I complete it, it might let me do the next one.

There is a vendor woman in the market square. Talk to her and win the fistfight.

Hmm... I think I've spoken to everyone. What was her name?

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

I matched most enemies I've encounterd quite well, but when I went up the mountain to High Hrothgar I came across a frost troll who kept killing me in 2 strikes....

That thing was a *****. I got onto a hill and i managed to shoot ONE HUNDRED steel arrows into it with an imperial bow. Then it died. Was a great moment for me. Was a pin cushion.

 

[Gabanuka]

2) Skyrim didn't randomly crash half the fucking time.

Please tell me that's just PC D:

My friends Xbox copy bugged out horrifically. My PC version is working fine now that i solved the cracking audio.

 

[Commissar Sae]

My current favorite oddity is the blink wolly mammoths. They randomly teleport themselves into the air and fall on things, most of the time killing themselves in the process.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Watched a duel between two mages in the wild, one called "Fire Mage" and one called "Ice Mage".

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I had 3 thugs on me when I was leaving Solitude but I ran away because the guards were near and I was being accused of thievery. A couple of times I've come across a band of ominous warrior mages, one of whom tried to kill me.

I've killed 3 dragons in total so far but I'm learning new shouts faster than I'm collecting souls. I joined the Companions in Whiterun and was given a starting quest by someone but he didn't really say what to do and it's not in my journal. Help?

It's not under misc. It gets its own section (I'm about 87% sure)

If it's still not there at all then bug?

Sorry for dp, just figured i'd let this kind soul know what i think is the answer to his/her problem and my last post was pretty big for another quote and explanation :3

No I had a look ,it must be a bug. What did you have to do in the first quest? If I complete it, it might let me do the next one.

There is a vendor woman in the market square. Talk to her and win the fistfight.

Hmm... I think I've spoken to everyone. What was her name?

My quest journal says Carlotta Valentia. She is the one who talks about supporting her daughter.

 

[Neocavo]

trekking from whiterun to god knows where...2 dragons spawn on me...barbecue me till i run....straight in to a giant camp where i get my head promptly wedged in my hip :S

edit: just remembered at this stage i was a fresh werewolf going for a run (found the sprint button thanks bethesda) and i ran out of wolfy time as the 2 dragons spawned

 

[oxiclean]

Weirdest moment for me so far: I fast-travelled to a bandit camp for a whiterun bounty, and a guy labelled as 'fugitive' ran up to me the moment I appeared. He asked me to take something for him, but before I heard what it was he got mauled to death by a pack of wolves.
Still not sure what he gave me :/


OH, I almost forgot when, after chasing a dragon and losing sight of it, I got attacked by wolves and spiders. Luckily, a giant came to my aid...and then turned on me and chased me for what seemed like miles. :L

 

[Jack Rascal]

Weirdest moment for me so far: I fast-travelled to a bandit camp for a whiterun bounty, and a guy labelled as 'fugitive' ran up to me the moment I appeared. He asked me to take something for him, but before I heard what it was he got mauled to death by a pack of wolves.
Still not sure what he gave me :/

Do you have an Iron Mace of Embers (or something like that) in your inventory? I think that's what he gave you.

I had a similar experience. This guy runs up and threatens to kill me if I don't hold on to it. Give or take two seconds later (when the fugitive is still standing next to me) half naked man turns up and asks me if I have seen someone run by. Naturally at that moment I answer most logically "No, sorry I haven't", seeing as they both stand in front of me. Half naked man clears off with "Aha! There you are" and they started to fight each other. I'm left there to scratch my head and see them disappear. I haven't found either of them dead or alive yet. And I still have that mace.

 

[walrusaurus]

I had a band of three mercenaries attack me in riverdale (the first town. river-something), when i was level 2 they were way beyond my level took me ages to kill them. The note i got off them was from the guy who owns the meadery that i snuck about but didn't steal anything from. So i'm pretty sure you can be 'contracted' simply for being caught trespassing.

I'm currently in the process of determining if its possible to be both a vampire and a werewolf at the same time. I just need to find some vampires that will actually bite me.

 

[walrusaurus]

I matched most enemies I've encounterd quite well, but when I went up the mountain to High Hrothgar I came across a frost troll who kept killing me in 2 strikes....

That thing was a *****. I got onto a hill and i managed to shoot ONE HUNDRED steel arrows into it with an imperial bow. Then it died. Was a great moment for me. Was a pin cushion.

i saw a large terrifying creature looming in the distance, and after the trouble i had had with the wolves on the way up i just ninjad my way over the rocks and snuck past it.

 

[Jack Rascal]

Oh crap. I had a fugitive do that to me, and I just realized I actually sold the bow he dumped off on me. I'm going to assume he's going to show up at some inconvenient point in the future and try to kill me now -__-

I can really imagine that. Next time you're between mammoths, giants and a dragon he can come jogging out of nowhere and demand you return his (going by his name stolen) mace. At once. He trusted it upon you, you know.

Well, I'm not actually carrying that thing with me, don't know if that matters. So if he comes asking for it, I can say yes I have it and no I cannot give it to you