When your game crashes and you look at a log....

Post » Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:17 am

When my game crashes where and what do i look at to see a report?

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Margarita Diaz
 
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Post » Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:16 pm

My Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Logs\Papyrus.log

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Kyra
 
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Post » Fri Oct 03, 2014 5:58 am

The log is a script log rather than a crash log, and isn't usually useful to determine direct cause of CTD, which is often engine or memory-related rather than script-related.

Papyrus log is really for troubleshooting scripts and seeing if you're getting a lot of script spam that could be contributing to slowdown which could eventually leading to performance issues and crashes.

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Post » Fri Oct 03, 2014 6:01 am

The Papyrus logs, as talked about, are for Mod Scripts and figuring out where mod related issues are happening.

For general game crashes, you want the Event Viewer

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Open-Event-Viewer

Once you get it open, you have to poke around in the directory of the Viewer to find the log for the App Crash.

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