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linearcore

Bad Bugs from 1.4 Patch

Since the 1.4 patch went live, I have been getting two new bugs. The game has been crashing as often as it did before the LAA patch came out. It has become seriously unstable, but textures aren't disappearing (like they used to). I have also started getting endlessly circling dragons that will never come down, even after I've attacked them.

Has anyone else encountered these bugs? I am running the game with mods, so I cannot say these are Bethesda created. Is there anyone out there running vanilla Skyrim who has had these? Or, is there anyone who has had these and pinpointed which mods caused them for you?

I have noticed on another forum a couple people mentioned the crashes on vanilla versions, but I haven't personally confirmed it.

Posted Feb 3, 2012, 9:48 PM UTC

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kintexu2flair•

I have no mods installed, and i started getting pretty regular crashes today. I could run it fine yesterday for hours, today, I'm lucky to go 10 minutes without a full crash.

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LyriPC•

Running a game without mods, nothing to report.

I had a dragon that wouldn't land but I never actually hit it, despite many attempts to catch it's attention. I didn't have a bow so I just used some piffly shock spell.

Try uninstalling your mods, they may not be compatible with 1.4

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CyriixPC•

I've had dragons do that on all patches. I think it must just be because they cant find a suitable spot to land in.

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linearcoreOP•

I've had dragons circle and leave on all patches. This is the first one, though, where they will never go away. Once they start circling, they won't leave on their own and they won't land. I've had them circle me in the plains of Whiterun hold, so I know there are plenty of suitable places to land. I can hit them with spells, shouts, and arrows and they will never stop circling. Some even do the swoop down where they shake the camera to get your attention, then they go back to circling indefinitely.

It's pretty obnoxious because the NPCs will also be "in combat" and since the dragon never lands and won't leave, I can't talk to people in the area anymore (nor can I fast travel).

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CyriixPC•

Interesting... I've never encountered anything like that apart from the 1.2 infamous backwards-flying invincible dragons.

Everyone's computer behaves differently i guess.

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linearcoreOP•

Yeah, the interesting thing is, I never had those during the 1.2 patch. I had my resistances disappear, but I never had any dragon bugs at all.

Guess I'm making up for it now.

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LyriPC•

Yeah it is usually, I was in a decent spot though. I'm in no way saying that what I went through is a bug but just throwing it out there none the less.

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[deleted]•

No crashes but after the game runs for 30 min or an hour, the frame rate drops and I have to close the program and restart it.

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[deleted]•

I have definitely more crashes now. Though I'm also using SKSE and stuff.

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linearcoreOP•

I'm running SKSE as well. One of the forum posts I mentioned said they were getting it even with SKSE off, but I didn't want to turn everything off to test it myself if it was the base game causing the issue.

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[deleted]•

disable your mods and see if it persists.

Primary suspects:
SKSE or mods using it
Script Dragon or mods using it
d3d9 mods (ENB, FXAA injectors, etc)
Wars in Skyrim
leftover files from TESVAL or Skyboost
bad ini edits

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queerissuesPS3•

I can't help, but I just wanted to thank you and all the other guys and gals testing out the patch for us console players and reporting the problems. Keep up the good work!

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drfrank•

I saw dragons exhibit this behavior with 1.3. No mods.

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invalid_data•

New bug for me. My enchanting now now sucks and is significantly decreased in strength, and I am lvl 95 in enchanting....

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