{"id":6420,"date":"2013-11-29T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T00:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=6420"},"modified":"2013-12-01T12:49:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T01:49:22","slug":"fix-skyrim-crashing-during-first-cutscene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/fix-skyrim-crashing-during-first-cutscene\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Skyrim Crashing During First Cutscene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I am late getting to Skyrim but when I saw it on a recent Steam sale for 75% off I figured I should just pull the trigger and buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, annoyingly when I have attempted to play the game I have been unable to make it past the introductory scene where you are being taken by horse and cart to a village to meet your fate. Shortly after going through the front gate the screen just went blank and my computer locks up required a full reset to get things going again.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, I thought this might have been my video cards getting far too long in the tooth to handle things (and I&#8217;ve not yet sourced a replacement video card). Compared to the latest generation of video cards my twin GTX 295s can muster only a fraction of the power on single card solutions with gigabytes of video memory at their disposal. I even tried turning down the graphics quality to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>However, after a bit of tweaking with the video settings, I actually found that enabling FXAA (fast approximate anti-aliasing) solved the problem for me. Not sure why this is the case but I can only think that my video cards just can&#8217;t handle standard anti-aliasing so FXAA dumbs things down a bit to lower the required processing at the sacrifice of some image quality.<\/p>\n<p>Not a big deal for me at this stage but certain if I want to play more recent game titles at 2560 x 1600 resolution in full detail then an upgrade will be on the cards at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I am late getting to Skyrim but when I saw it on a recent Steam sale for 75% off I figured I should just pull the trigger and buy it. Anyway, annoyingly when I have attempted to play the game I have been unable to make it past the introductory scene where you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/fix-skyrim-crashing-during-first-cutscene\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1102,2170,186],"class_list":["post-6420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-games","tag-skyrim","tag-video-card","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}