Steam updating PC Version : V - Skyrim

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:44 am

Patch Notes

Fixed angle of grass
Tweaked hue of tree trunks

Oh yeah, thank god Bethesda listened to my endless complaints about the hue of tree trunks.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:03 pm

Well, I just downloaded it and now I can't open Skyrim without it opening Steam. Before I was able to click on the Skyrim icon and it would start Skyrim without using Steam. Now it's starting Steam up before launching Skyrim. So it looks like this makes it so those of us who were playing Skyrim without Steam unable to do so anymore.

:sadvaultboy:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:39 am

Patch Notes

Fixed angle of grass
Tweaked hue of tree trunks

Sorry, couldn't help but laugh.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:06 pm

200+ guests? Are we back to those joyful pre-release days?

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:47 pm

Yep. No more 4gb patch or anything else. Gives the usual steam 'encrypted' error if you patch it, and try to play.

4gb patched post-"updated" exe
http://i44.tinypic.com/28pbt2.png

If this is true, that's infuriating. The 4gb patch thing was what stopped me having constant CTDs.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:48 am

Well, I just downloaded it and now I can't open Skyrim without it opening Steam. Before I was able to click on the Skyrim icon and it would start Skyrim without using Steam. Now it's starting Steam up before launching Skyrim. So it looks like this makes it so those of us who were playing Skyrim without Steam unable to do so anymore.

:sadvaultboy:

Aye. Valve doesn't like it when you don't let them watch.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:26 am

anybody know if this fixes any quest related bugs?

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:46 am

On the good side of things, I actually opened Steam to download the patch. So if you are playing Skyrim and haven't opened Steam, just leave it closed and you won't get the patch.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:58 pm

Steam error code 51 -_- game failed to launch -_- -_- -_- -_-

:flamethrower: DRM

Patching the .exe to 4Gb aware flag breaks it /golfclap

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:23 pm

Yep. No more 4gb patch or anything else. Gives the usual steam 'encrypted' error if you patch it, and try to play.

4gb patched post-"updated" exe
http://i44.tinypic.com/28pbt2.png

Same thing here and ofcourse useless steam never ask if you want the patch it just download and install it. :banghead:

No wonder piracy is encouraged atleast with that you can decide to patch or not.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:37 am

If this is true, that's infuriating. The 4gb patch thing was what stopped me having constant CTDs.

It's true. I don't see SKSE being released anytime soon to work around it. So the only option is to make a backup, before launching, and disable updating.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:28 am

If this is true, that's infuriating. The 4gb patch thing was what stopped me having constant CTDs.

Same.

Glad I waited.

No patches for me though.....

Shame on you Bethesda/Valve. You are supposed to fix games, not re-break them!!

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:12 pm

Yup. No more 4gb patch. Nice one Bethesda, you break your game, we fix it, you patch it so that it stay broken and noone can fix it. SMOOTH!

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:45 pm

sighface ! damn you steam ! take your drm and shuv it deep up your ****

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:04 pm

Yup. No more 4gb patch. Nice one Bethesda, you break your game, we fix it, you patch it so that it stay broken and noone can fix it. SMOOTH!

Straight up, bustah man. :disco:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:30 am

Same thing here and ofcourse useless steam never ask if you want the patch it just download and install it. :banghead:

No wonder piracy is encouraged atleast with that you can decide to patch or not.

Steam never forces you to update the game. There's a little box you can tick to turn off automatic updates.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:41 am

If this is true, that's infuriating. The 4gb patch thing was what stopped me having constant CTDs.

Crap! I forgot to backup my file before setting the flag

Does this mean I can't play Skyrim now? I think I have a /largadressaware patcher that allows me to uncheck the 4GB box again. I will do this before I open up Steam and see if it patches correctly,

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:27 am

Crap! I forgot to backup my file before setting the flag

Does this mean I can't play Skyrim now? I think I have a /largadressaware patcher that allows me to uncheck the 4GB box again. I will do this before I open up Steam and see if it patches correctly,

just do an integrity check, it will fix the exe ( normally)

guess what im doing now?

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:18 am

Steam never forces you to update the game. There's a little box you can tick to turn off automatic updates.

Which works... until you launch the game while online.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:16 pm

Steam never forces you to update the game. There's a little box you can tick to turn off automatic updates.

Does not work when you try to launch it wants to update first, only offline mode works.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:59 pm

Same thing here and ofcourse useless steam never ask if you want the patch it just download and install it. :banghead:

No wonder piracy is encouraged atleast with that you can decide to patch or not.

Ever heard of offline mode? The vast majority of complaints about steam seem to come from massive ignorance.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:14 pm

On the good side of things, I actually opened Steam to download the patch. So if you are playing Skyrim and haven't opened Steam, just leave it closed and you won't get the patch.

I remember I made a copy of my Skyrim.exe because I made my program 64bit compatible with a program called Explorer Suite and it reminded me to make a backup of my Skyrim.exe before I changed it to 64bit compatible. I just recopied that skyrimbackup.exe to Skyrim folder and renamed it Skyrim.exe and problem sloved!

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:33 am

Steam never forces you to update the game. There's a little box you can tick to turn off automatic updates.

Which it ignores, anyway thanks Bethesda\Steam for breaking the 4GB patch, the one thing that stopped it crashing.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:33 pm

So if I saved a back up of my 4G mod I can just replace it with the one I'm downloading now with the update?

For some reason I saved the .exe with the 4G mod.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:00 am

Ever heard of offline mode? The vast majority of complaints about steam seem to come from massive ignorance.

You can actually bypass Steam altogther by clicking on the Skyrim.exe in the steamapps common folder. It appears that this new downloaded exe prevents that from happening. So you don't need to play in offline mode, you don't need Steam at all, until this update.