I've been trying to register to the steam forums so I could post there, bc I have the steam version of the game. But after several days, it still won't let me log in. So I may have forgotten some details as to what happened.
For the past several days, whenever I get a new quest, the map marker for it won't show, on my map, on my compass, nothing. The only thing that works is it'll still center the map on the quest location if I tell it to (this is the only way that I can find my quests now). If I ask the greybeards to show me a wordwall, it'll reveal the location on my map, but it wont show a quest marker to it. And what's really odd is that the two quests I had active when this started to happen still work fine. I can see the map marker, I can even unselect and re-select the quests and it'll still show the marker (though this won't fix the map markers for all my other quests).
The only fix I can find online is to delete 'maps.swf' or something like that, but I don't have that file anywhere on my computer (possibly bc I have the steam version).
My other problem, which is vastly more annoying, is my game keeps crashing randomly. And I don't mean it feezes up or crashes when I start it. I can be sitting there playing the game and suddenly the game disappears and I'm on the desktop again, no error message, no for-warning, nothing. One moment I'm playing the game, everything's going fine, then the next instant I'm sitting on the desktop and my game is gone. It started happening right after I told disk-cleanup to delete my windows.old file (bc I was beyond sick of my computer taking more than 6 hours to do its daily scan). I was playing the game, when the thing suddenly took me back to desktop bc the back-up program for my external harddrive was going haywire. I got back in, had the problem with my normal mouse appearing in the game, I managed to fix it, then it crashed on me. Then it proceeded to crash on me repeatedly every few minutes. I got into the habit of saving my game after every fight just incase my game crashed. It stopped doing that yesterday though, infact it didn't crash once yesterday, so I assumed the problem was gone. But just now, the damn thing crashed on my again, just like before. No warning, nothing going wrong with the game, no error message, nothing, my game just disappears. It hasn't done it in the middle of a fight yet (it seems to only do it when I'm walking around, though I did have to kill a dragon a second time bc of the crashes).
What's going on here? This is stupid and ridiculous and I have no idea how to fix, because I have no indiction at all as to what is wrong, and I've had this game for at least a year now and have never had a problem with it crashing, or with bugs of any sort.
What's going on and how can I fix this?