Fix for Skyrim crashing to the desktop when looking at a large gem pile

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I'm finding a lot of gems in dungeons, recently, and so I've decided to fill my basement room with them.

I've gotten quite a lot, and after dropping the last haul, I've found myself in the unfortunate situation, that Skyrim crashes to desktop, everytime I look in the pile's direction.

Even with the door to the room closed, it still dies horribly.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? I was hoping for an epic look, gem pile, and I am still far from that.

This happened both before, and after, the 1.3 patch.

Best Answer

As hinted at by @Havoc, a possible solution is the Large Address Aware patch that was made. However, this patch does not function with the latest 1.3 version of Skyrim. It is entirely likely that Skyrim is crashing because it needs more than the hard-locked 2 gigs of ram and using this user-made patch will allow Skyrim to access more ram (assuming your computer actually has more).

There might be other versions, but a quick search brought me to this patch on Fileplanet.

Hopefully, Bethesda will actually fix this issue themselves rather than making us rely on user-made fixes, but who knows.