I've been playing Skyrim for a few months without issue — character is level 38.
Suddenly, today, I'm getting very frequent crashes to desktop — usually when I'm in major cities. Often just after fast travelling, but can also happen while I'm running/sprinting through town. It may not be related by my sprint function (ALT) has gotten a little sticky-glitchy today, too.
I've tried lowering various setting (shadows, anti-aliasing, etc). Seemed to help a little but not much — or that may have been coincidence. Screen resolution is at the lowest setting. I read on other fora that sometimes the size of individual game files could be problematic, if they're near 18MB — mine are all under 10MB (though I tried the sleep-for-7-days fix that was recommended to help that, just in case). I've read that some mods can be problematic, but I'm only running one small mod — the one that make veils of ore glow, so you can spot them easily — and the problem never happens when I'm out in the wilderness near ore veils, so I think it's unrelated.
Anyone? Anything? I'd be very grateful for any suggestions. Ideally couched in human-speak, rather than computer-speak … I'm only semi-computer literate.
Best Answer
Try removing the only mod (the "glowing ore veins mod") you have, just to check if does not really cause the crashes.
Also, it might be the case of the ol' Savegame bloating. Try the Unofficial Skyrim Patch (UKSP). Among its fixes are:
The Unofficial Skyrim Patch is a comprehensive Skyrim bugfixing mod that could also help solve other potential CTD issues. Full list of its fixes here.
The mod, Possessive Corpses, has a 'less arrows' module, which has this feature:
From the mod's description:
I'd use only the 'less arrows' module of Possessive Corpses with UKSP (as the other features of Possessive Corpses might overlap with UKSP).