I'm closing a gate outside of Skingrad. I grab the sigil stone, the effect starts to close the gate, but I notice it takes longer than normal. In fact, the entire effect plays out, and the bright light dissapates, taking the scene back to normal, before the loading screen comes up to take me back to Cyrodiil as the gate closes.
Here's where the problem occurs. The game locks up during loading.
As I said, I haven't played in a while. But, I also haven't made any changes to the game--no new mods or setting changes. So, the game should play just as it did two months ago (when I could close gates fine).
I wonder what's happening?
I tried re-saving the game, and it still locked up. I used the hard save rather than the quick save and still got a lock up.
When I get a lock up, I have to CTRL-ALT-DELETE to close the game. I've tried letting it sit for a while to see if it will eventually finish load, but, nope, it doesn't work.
Thoughts?