Ny way to stop the game from putting me in auto-run

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I prefer to hold the shift key to run, and so every time I start the game, I hit Caps Lock to disable auto-run. However, I find it always finds opportunities to re-enable itself. Sometimes I will go through a door that has a loading screen, and I'm auto-running when I come out the other site. Other times I will speak to an NPC and will be running after the conversation has ended.

I tried finding an option in the menu but couldn't. Is there some kind of configuration that would allow me to disable auto-run altogether so that the game doesn't do it for me?

Best Answer

You can change the default autorun state from on to off by editing the game's preference file, which is located in:

My Documents/My games/Skyrim/SkyrimPrefs.ini

In there, you can find the section [Controls] which has a setting

bAlwaysRunByDefault=1

Change it to:

bAlwaysRunByDefault=0

To turn autorun off by default.