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Skyrim Patched, LAA Fix No Longer Works

[Nov 21, 2011, 10:21 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

As noted on the Steam Users' Forums, a new patch is now available for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda's recently released RPG sequel (thanks Chris and Alex). As stated in the thread, one of the changes the patch implements is that the game can no longer be launched separately from Steam. A locked thread on the Bethesda Softworks Forums and another current thread discuss another consequence of the patch, which is that it means the game can no longer be hacked to run in Large Address Aware mode, which many users found was the solution to crashing issues and texture corruption problems. We contacted both Bethesda and Valve about whether we should expect a return of the ability to use large address awareness through a future update, but have not yet received a response.

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Re: Skyrim Patched, LAA Fix No Longer Works

Nov 22, 2011, 10:27

wtf_man

I'm not sure what the big deal is.. other than the DRM enforcement part. It has been my experience that applying LAA hacks have usually resulted in applications becoming more unstable. LAA was designed mainly for 32-bit database engines on workstations that needed the extra gig for performance. Hacking an executable that wasn't designed to have LAA usually brings poor results. As for Skyrim stability... I have only had one "complete lockup" in close to 60 hours of gameplay. Obviously I can't speak for everyone's hardware configurations... but I highly doubt LAA is helping as much as people think. Probably turning off SLI / Crossfire would be more beneficial (if you have that) than forcing LAA. Both nVidia and AMD STILL haven't solved the micro-stutter problem of running multiple cards... and that is probably triggering more crashes than anything, IMO. Probably the main reason I don't suffer crashes, as other folks do, is because I keep it simple. 1 video card, fairly up to date drivers, no security software, no other garbage apps running in the background, nothing but games installed on the OS, and no Internet surfing on the gaming rig. /shrug

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