Help Optimizing Drivers!

[Deolrin]

So I've been reading some stuff on the NVIDIA forums, because my Skyrim game keeps crashing. One of the pieces of advice given there is to update ALL of my drivers, not just my video card driver. So I updated my video card driver, and now I'm searching for drivers for my processor(Pentium Dual Core CPU E5500 @2.80 GHz). I found this website, but I'm not sure if it's trustable. It also doesn't have a Windows 7 64bit driver, which is what I'm looking for, seeing how I have a Win 7 64bit.
I'm also clueless about what other drivers I'll have to get. I'm guessing my Monitor doesn't need new drivers(the best I found is only for Windows XP, anyway. I guess my monitor is THAT ancient.), and my sound card seems to be merged with my video card or something(it says "NVIDIA High Definition Audio" in the Device Manager). I honestly don't know what else needs new drivers.

Help pl0x?

 

[GIANT_CRAB]

Shouldn't your driver for your processor update by itself?

Also, graphic card is GRAPHIC, not sound.
BRO TIP: TRY REMOVING SOUND CARD and then try playing music to see the DIFFERENCE.
BUT: Newer graphic cards have this "digital audio".

 

[Deolrin]

Okay, what exactly is your point?
I already said I HAVE downloaded the latest driver for my video card. I'm looking for the latest drivers for my processor.

 

[Lautanen]

Game booster is a tool that will find out-dated drivers for you. And it's free.
It has a driver update feature, go to tools>drivers.
It scans for out-dated drivers and it even searches an web-site from what you can download updates.

Edit: And yes, I have used it and the update drivers feature.

 

[Adiktuz]

or try using windows update, I have used it to get updates and some other drivers on my win7 64-bit... though it could prove to be really slow...

 

[Dr Super Good]

Your processor should not need a driver to perform its main function (the CPU). It might need drivers for other functions like monitoring and graphics (if supported) but those should not need updating for a game to work reliably that is not using them.

Also, graphic card is GRAPHIC, not sound.

New Nvidia and AMD cards come with HDMI ports which have intigrated sound support. For this reason they have a sound driver (often installed as part of the graphic driver package) and so act as a valid audio output device.

So I've been reading some stuff on the NVIDIA forums, because my Skyrim game keeps crashing.

Make sure your computer is not overheating. This is more likly to cause a crash than out of date drivers.

 

[Adiktuz]

btw, what settings are you running Skyrim? you could try lowering it down if you haven't done so...

 

[GIANT_CRAB]

New Nvidia and AMD cards come with HDMI ports which have intigrated sound support. For this reason they have a sound driver (often installed as part of the graphic driver package) and so act as a valid audio output device.

You didn't read finish what I said, I had a BUT there ._.
It's not normal sound support, it's DIGITAL sound support, I don't know the difference either.

Deolrin is using the "non-legit" win32, that's why it won't update itself, he said it himself in the chat, so, there's no point helping.

EDIT: He just need to get a LEGIT version of win32.

 

[Deolrin]

Make sure your computer is not overheating. This is more likly to cause a crash than out of date drivers.

btw, what settings are you running Skyrim? you could try lowering it down if you haven't done so...

The thing is, I am fairly certain that this is all unrelated to graphics, now. I tried setting graphics to Low, I tried using Windowed Mode, I tried updating all of my drivers... And yet, every time, when I cross one specific area(different each time; Previously, it was some kind of invisible border in the Rift area, then it became somewhere near Riverwood, now it's in the middle of Blackreach), I crash. If I don't stand in that area, I won't crash. Somehow, I just feel like this is a problem with the game, not with my computer. I installed Spybot Search & Destroy, and that apparently killed a bunch of spyware and other harmful stuff that my computer apparently had. I killed off a bunch of Startup processes that are useless, and I updated my Video Card driver. And yet the problem still occurs. Every time I cross some place, I crash. I think it can be fixed by exiting the area and entering it again, I'll try that later. I really hope Bethesda fixes their game asap. ._.

 

[Adiktuz]

then maybe try reinstalling... my friends have been playing it for a while now and I haven't heard anything about crashes yet...

 

[Dr Super Good]

If the engine is anything like the one used for Oblivion, these "invisible borders" are environment cell bounderies, across which it trys to load the detail for the next couple of cells and turns off the LoD for them.

Even in oblivion, 90% of the crashes I encountered were when doing this. If possible, try changing the cache settings the game uses as I did notice a correlation between crashes and cache sizes (with too large eventually always crashing during such a transition). Options to do this may or may not exist anymore and in Oblivion had to be edited manually using a program like notepad.

 

[Deolrin]

Well, I can't find that in the options. I don't know. It's not "Distant Object Detail Level" I guess(put it on Low and nothing changes). How do I find that?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Oblivion had a file where the option settings were stored. As I do not own Skyrim I can not tell you where the options are but there should still be options to adjust cache settings unless they really dumbed it down.

 

[Deolrin]

But I don't know what a cache setting is, let alone where to search for it.
I've tried googling, but found nothing. D:
The game is literally unplayable right now, because I cannot proceed with the main quest... I'm stuck on a place right before the border inside Blackreach.

 

[Dr Super Good]

What error are you getting when the game crashes?

 

[Deolrin]

Nothing. It just closes to Dekstop. No unresponsiveness, no nothing, just crashes.

Skyrim is the buggiest game of the year. <_>

 

[Dr Super Good]

Nothing. It just closes to Dekstop. No unresponsiveness, no nothing, just crashes.

Look for some kind of dump file. Games that crash like this usually produce one. The fact no error is produced reaks of some internal error that the game handles fine but is programed to shutdown at.

 

[Deolrin]

I just experimented a bit, and I came to the conclusion that the problem is within the apparently big save file. I sent my 18MB big file to a friend, who ran Skyrim with no problems so far, and he crashed at the same place as I did. Furthermore, I'm not sure if I already described that problem, but when I enter a sub-region of the place in which I crash, called 'Silent City Catacombs', all I see is an infinite amount of sky, water, and the gate back to Blackreach, the main region. This applies to my friend using my save as well. I've recently started a new character, and I'm going to try and do the important quests before the rest of the game, so that my save won't get too big before I'm done with the important stuff(main quest and such). I'm going to try and teleport myself to Blackreach, and check for crashes and weird occurrences with this new character. I'll edit this post with results.

 

[BlargHonk]

Was about to say, I've had save corruption doing almost the exact same thing in Fallout 3.

If it's not fixed, try reinstalling the game, did you torrent it?