7970 Skyirm - Problems?

qweezy · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:20

Not sure if anyone else has any problems with Skyrim, but I cant seem to run the game any more......

All other games running great, but Skyrim has no selectable resolution in the config and when I try to launch it 'fails to initialise graphics adapter'.

Guessing this is down to early drivers for the 7970.

Cleeecooo · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:25

I'd presume if there was an inherent fault with the early drivers and Skyrim then the fanboys would be trolling by now, so probably a problem your end?

Try reinstalling drivers usin driver sweeper.

qweezy · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:27

Good point.

I'll give the drivers another shot, but I did use driver sweeper when I first installed the card.

Cleeecooo · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:29

Any Nvidia drivers?

xsistor · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:32

Cleeecooo said:
Any Nvidia drivers?

Why? You think even they will work better on the 7970 than those ATI ones?

Cleeecooo · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:34

xsistor said:
Why? You think even they will work better on the 7970 than those ATI ones?

I meant they can stop the ATI drivers functioning properly if he has some

qweezy · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:39

Nah..... came from 5870.

Merlin5 · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:39

qweezy said:
Not sure if anyone else has any problems with Skyrim, but I cant seem to run the game any more......

All other games running great, but Skyrim has no selectable resolution in the config

mcdermotx · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:47

Skyrim running fine with the released 11.12 drivers for the 7970.
Don't have it in front of me but isn't there a number of config ini files in the save game folder ?
Always deleted them whenever I wanted the game to rescan new hardware etc.
Failing that it could be down to a driver re-install and 11.12 Cap.

qweezy · 12 Jan 2012 at 00:52

So this is what I get right now. Going to driver reinstall.

And if I try windowed mode.....

qweezy · 12 Jan 2012 at 01:04

Okay so just done a re-install and used driver sweeper again.

No joy, same problem.

xsistor · 12 Jan 2012 at 01:08

Have you tried reinstalling Skyrim?

qweezy · 12 Jan 2012 at 02:11

I have yes.

I have also tried deleting the config files and getting steam to re-download.

Strange to say the least!

4RPT · 12 Jan 2012 at 03:24

Have you tried to just type in your desired res in SkyrimPrefs.ini and launch the game. [you probably did just asking]

Could do the job untill new drivers come out.

edit: X:\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Skyrim

Purgatory · 12 Jan 2012 at 08:38

Make sure your monitor drivers are installed too and working right. The monitor drivers are normally a small inf file. Just make sure the new card is picking up the monitor and what it is capable of correctly.

john_x3 · 12 Jan 2012 at 09:32

I had this problem on my system (with a gtx570) ; for me disabling the on board graphics in BIOS fixed it

fizzy · 12 Jan 2012 at 13:02

A friend of mine had a similar issue on skyrim after updating drivers - no high res modes available.

He also spotted that although the ati control panel had all the higher res options available, within windows resolution selection itself they were missing.

Tried seeing if there were any updated drivers for his monitor (or in this case TV) but no joy. Reverting back to earlier driver fixed it though.

Is you're screen being detected as an unknown type or "pnp monitor" etc by any chance? Is it just skyrim that's effected?

edit - just spotted you mention other games running fine so does appear to be a skyrim specific issue. Can you get it to run auto-detect/setup again?

wolvers · 12 Jan 2012 at 15:22

qweezy said:
used driver sweeper

Probably this.

qweezy · 12 Jan 2012 at 15:33

Monitor is only detected as 'Generic PNP Monitor'. Has always been like that though and Skyrim used to work fine. My onboard is already disabled.

No other games have any problems.

wolvers said:
Probably this.

What would you suggest to use instead?

smit101 · 12 Jan 2012 at 15:34

Try right clicking 'Skyrim' in Steam library, go to properties, local files, 'verify integrity of game cache', doing this has solved game launch and other problems for me in the past. As you've already reinstalled Skyrim it probably won't help but worth a try I suppose.