Whenever I go to hit the play button on skyrim, I am presented with the following error:

"Failed to initialize renderer. Your display doesn't support the selected resolution. Please set a different resolution in Skyrim's Launcher under 'Display Settings'.

The problem is, it doesn't give me an option to set a different resolution. The resolution field is completely blank.
And apparently default settings for my system (i5 2400, 8gb ram, HD 5770) is 'Low Quality'.

I have updated my catalyst drivers to 11.10

The other day i was playing skyrim on a worse computer and it was running fine.

Not sure what to do : (

Anyone else having this issue?

I have the same issue but only after I update my video card drivers.

Mind you I am using a nVidia 9800 GTX video card. Try rolling back to the previous video card drivers.

Is it still the issue? Tried to start Skyrim after a year since last start and now can't do it because of subject.

Video: 7950, drivers are the most recent.

There is no options to choose resolution in Launcher - just blank list. It shows correct resolutions if I try Windowed mode, but then I get message that windowed mode is not supported on my card.

Three software sources, if we immediately eliminate a defective graphics processor. First is the graphics drivers, as already commented. Second is a corrupted or missing set of Dx9 DLLs, Third is corrupted graphics files in the newer game install.

Duped this, somehow!

OK, it's this one that got the dupe when I was in a hurry and messed up.

Going to reinstall Skyrim from the scratch. Don't think that something wrong with drivers as other games run perfectly.

Each game is affected by drivers in a different way.

Nope. I saw only a few of games where you have to do something special with drivers to launch it.

As I said, after reinstallation, Skyrim at last recognize my videocard So, there was definetely a problem with the game, not with the drivers or whatsoever.