SKYRIM!

[Raphael]

steam deleted my .exe and I can't play anymore ._. followed all the steps on the support and now i sent them an email.. (even with integrity stuff it wont re downlaod the .exe) if I don't get an answer by tomorrow... ill have to buy a gun and shoot everyone I see

[BoilerDown]

steam deleted my .exe and I can't play anymore ._. followed all the steps on the support and now i sent them an email.. (even with integrity stuff it wont re downlaod the .exe) if I don't get an answer by tomorrow... ill have to buy a gun and shoot everyone I see

I'm experiencing something along these lines right now.  Found this after a search, I'm trying #2 solution atm:  http://qbeukes.blogspot.com/2011/11/skyrim-launcher-doesnt-work-launcher.html

Edit:  It worked.  It did a small download after checking integrity and once that was done, the game ran.  Before my problem was when I clicked "Play" nothing happened except the Skyrim launcher would flicker out and back in.  It also reset my graphical settings, which wasn't a problem because I used the auto-suggested settings anyways.

[Ack-Ack]

steam deleted my .exe and I can't play anymore ._. followed all the steps on the support and now i sent them an email.. (even with integrity stuff it wont re downlaod the .exe) if I don't get an answer by tomorrow... ill have to buy a gun and shoot everyone I see

Are you trying to use the 4gig mod by modifying the .exe to use more than 2gigs?  If so that is the problem.  Yesterday's patch was put out by Steam to stop people from modifying the .exe, don't know why they did but if you try to modify the .exe again so the game will use more than 2gigs it will crash the game.  However, there is good news in that someone made another 4gig mod that bypasses the Steam check, just go to Skyrim Nexus and download the new Skyrim 4gig mod.

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[ImADot]

Are you trying to use the 4gig mod by modifying the .exe to use more than 2gigs?  If so that is the problem. 

^^^^^^^^ This

I prefer to play games like this in the vanilla form at least once. By the time I get around to starting it again there's been enough time for nice and stable mods to come out that play nicely with whatever rev the game has been patched to.  So for me, that "patch" didn't break anything or affect me whatsoever.

By the way, I'm currently a level 11 sneaky archer mage dude. Headshots from across the cavern...

[titanic3]

Are you trying to use the 4gig mod by modifying the .exe to use more than 2gigs?  If so that is the problem.  Yesterday's patch was put out by Steam to stop people from modifying the .exe, don't know why they did but if you try to modify the .exe again so the game will use more than 2gigs it will crash the game.  However, there is good news in that someone made another 4gig mod that bypasses the Steam check, just go to Skyrim Nexus and download the new Skyrim 4gig mod.

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  I see their plan worked.

[Raphael]

listen, I'm not using any mods or stuff.. i simply downloaded the game (pre ordered!) and all I wanted to do was to play the game, steam didn't give me this option so far.. so to play i linked the direct .exe as a non steam game and now there is no ".exe" so... what the heck... i payed for this game and I can not play it.. i followed all the steps steam support gave me in the "game not available" tab of the support... nothing worked and well I wasn't really mad until they decided to ruin my day by deleting the exe....

and Boiler, I have done that, is the first thing I do in steam when something seems wrong, verify game cache.. i already did 8 times. no progress. it always says there is 1 or 2 gb of files missing, downlaods it and guess what? the TESV.exe is not there...

I'm hatin Gabe Newell so much right now ):

[Raphael]

seriously, Ill go all the way to the united states to shoot Gaben in the knee if this isn't fixed 

[Ack-Ack]

^^^^^^^^ This

I prefer to play games like this in the vanilla form at least once. By the time I get around to starting it again there's been enough time for nice and stable mods to come out that play nicely with whatever rev the game has been patched to.  So for me, that "patch" didn't break anything or affect me whatsoever.

By the way, I'm currently a level 11 sneaky archer mage dude. Headshots from across the cavern...

This particular mod doesn't change the game in any fashion, it's actually more of bug fix than anything.  This allows the game to use more than 2gigs of RAM which fixes a lot of crashing problems people were having.

The only mods I like to use are teh ones that improve the eye candy with the improved textures and I tend to stay away from game play changing mods.

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[Ack-Ack]

listen, I'm not using any mods or stuff.. i simply downloaded the game (pre ordered!) and all I wanted to do was to play the game, steam didn't give me this option so far.. so to play i linked the direct .exe as a non steam game and now there is no ".exe" so... what the heck... i payed for this game and I can not play it.. i followed all the steps steam support gave me in the "game not available" tab of the support... nothing worked and well I wasn't really mad until they decided to ruin my day by deleting the exe....

and Boiler, I have done that, is the first thing I do in steam when something seems wrong, verify game cache.. i already did 8 times. no progress. it always says there is 1 or 2 gb of files missing, downlaods it and guess what? the TESV.exe is not there...

I'm hatin Gabe Newell so much right now ):

Uninstall Skyrim and afterwards in your Steam game library, make sure you are displaying all games and then click on Skyrim to download it again.  You should get the .exe file back.

Before though, make sure that it's not already present.  Go to your program folder(x86) and then scroll down to the Steam folder, click on the steamapps folder and then on the common folder.  Scroll down until you find Skyrim and open it up.  The .exe should be in that folder.

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[Raphael]

  Ok so i deleted some files to force the verify game integrity to redownload those stuff, I was watching the skyrim folder as it was under the download process and I noticed that the TESV.exe appeared on the middle of the download but disapeared when the download ended wich means steam deleted it or something like that.
  So I did it again but I grabbed the .exe before it went poof and pasted a copy on the desktop.

  All happy I was and then I took the .exe back to the Skyrim folder and launched it... a message popped up saying "this is not a valid Win32 executable"



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[Raphael]

ok can someone upload the .exe in like... megaupload for me? I would apreciate it so much... just the plain normal TESV.exe I would call you lord or god (your choice) before you name (as in god jhon or lord james) for ever here in the bbs when talking to you or about you. I swear. for EVER. only the first guy gets this stupidity, also its optional.

[Raphael]

except of course.. if you send me a virus I will find you.

[ImADot]

Check out this thread in the General Skyrim Discussion forum on The Nexus Forums. They talk about the issue and I think there are some links to the original tesv file.

[Raphael]

ah thank you god ImADot!

well the stuff that worked for some of them did not work for me... its the murphy's law you see...

[Ack-Ack]

  Ok so i deleted some files to force the verify game integrity to redownload those stuff, I was watching the skyrim folder as it was under the download process and I noticed that the TESV.exe appeared on the middle of the download but disapeared when the download ended wich means steam deleted it or something like that.
  So I did it again but I grabbed the .exe before it went poof and pasted a copy on the desktop.

  All happy I was and then I took the .exe back to the Skyrim folder and launched it... a message popped up saying "this is not a valid Win32 executable"

don't just delete some files, completely uninstall the game and have Steam redownload it. 

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