4861

Pretty sure you’re talking about

quest title and event

Blood on the Ice, when the mage is lead to the jail

And what Poops describes is not bugged. Nothing happens immediately after that scene, and watching the scene itself is totally optional.

4862

way to kill his enthusiasm :)

Could you post name of the quest in spoiler tag?

edit - ah Giaddon already did.

4863

Sounds a bit like a memory leak. How much RAM do you have? Have you done the LAA tweak?

4864

Sounds like a lot of people don’t use a horse, didn’t know about the cart though, will have to give it a try.

4865

Someone posted the soundtrack start-to-finish on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqQ6Q0VEZgY , and I love love love the theme that starts more or less 2 hours and 7 minutes in. Also, elsewhere, some of the passages with ethereal female voices singing unintelligible lyrics (say, starting at around 2:13:30) give me a great high fantasy vibe (Howard Shore’s LotR soundtrack used that kind of thing a lot, too).

4866

I’ve got 4 gigs of RAM and I do not have the LAA patch running but doesn’t it not do anything anymore? I heard the new patch on steam screwed it up.

EDIT: I’m going to try this to see if more RAM is what I need. Would be awesome if this fixes it.

4867

LAA workaround did nothing. I loaded up a save, walked from outside into dragonsreach in whiterun, and had the slowdown happen while talking to the Jarl.

4868

Damn right!

I like to think my characters have lots of blackouts.

4869

I also like just running through the countryside. Put on a ring of +20 or +30 stamina and you can sprint for a pretty long time (about 1/3 of my level ups included points in stamina, so I think I’m at like 220 base stamina). Chug those useless stamina potions in the meantime and you can keep sprinting to whatever new location you’re going to, no big deal and no hassle with the horse.

Even as fast travel when encumbered they are kind of useless. Potion of Strength takes care of being encumbered long enough to get out of a dungeon and fast travel, and people who are OCD and go back to re-loot a dungeon just to shell shitty weapons and armor that have terrible price-per-weight ratios are idiots.

4870

Sounds like a few people have this - maybe something to do with video memory (/asspull). Does alt-tabbing in and out make a difference? Have you defragged the files and verified integrity via Steam?

Also there’s this slightly offbeam solution: “I completely fixed my FPS drops by choosing a “balanced” power setting on the control panel, that means the CPU speeds up faster than before when I had it in power saver. For some reason Skyrim wasn’t sending the proper signals so my CPU was just running slow and so I had FPS drops in towns no matter the graphical settings.”

Keep googling memory leak btw, as that’s what it looks like even if it’s not, so it’s your most likely bet to locate someone else’s solution.

If you can’t fix it then you can at least speed up your shutdown routine by using the console: ~ and qqq will dump you to desktop instantly.

4871

Video memory may be it, my laptop video card has 3 gigs of VRAM and my PC only has 1 gig. I have set my power options to high performance (was on balanced before), I will try if that works*. This seems to be the last shot though I guess I’m playing on my laptop from now on.

Thanks for trying to help, obviously I’ll continue to appreciate any suggestions that may solve my problem.

*did not work

4872

I don’t power attack low level creeps any more as I miss out on skill increases due to combat being over too quickly. As it is smithing and enchanting are out-leveling my sword and board skills!

4873

Anyone know who took my sweet roll?

4874

It doesn’t matter, the guards won’t do anything about it. Put your fingers on someone else’s spoon and it’s off to jail with you, but your sweet roll belongs to the world.

4875

I’m gonna go with maybe.

4876

Theres alot of activity going on around you that you don’t even notice.

I was walking alone down a mountainside when a severed head came rolling past me…

4877

Some of my fondest memories of playing Skyrim are going after Alduin all alone (companions can’t join you on that quest), sneaking around skeletons and trying to kill them without alerting the rest during a bright moon night, with those ethereal female voices singing gently in the background. It felt like I was really there.

4878

Up to 22. Having a little bit of a harder time killing dudes now. If I’m clever about it I can still get by, but I think I’m hitting the spot where doing balanced advancement kind of sucks really, really hard. I’ve got a couple of skills in the 40s because they can’t not be in the 40s (specifically Sneak, which I have to keep on when I’m running cross-country so I know when bad dudes can see me), but the rest are all 30s and under, and I’m not doing as much damage to dudes any more as I’d like. Also, all these dipshit mages and vampires that turn your entire screen into some kind of idiotic Pink Floyd light show can all burn in hell.

I do wish that Dragons would stop seeking me out. I get the impression that there’s a finite number of them, and I’ve got to be using up all the ones that are even in the vicinity of easy.

And how come I don’t get no hench-lady or the opportunity to buy a house in Swampton? Jerks. I killed TWO dragons for them. Granted, I probably dragged one of them into the town by fast traveling to there to give whasserface that book, but still.

4879

INFINITE DRAGONS

4880

I had the same problem in the 20’s–that level range was the hardest in the entire game for me. Because I spread my skills pretty widely, my level was high but my offense and defense were not. Consuming enormous numbers of potions and conjuring allies got me through it, but it was a slog. By contrast, the 30’s and 40’s were a breeze.