Bethesda finally has released Elder Scrolls Skyrim (Elder Scrolls V) for Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 PCs, as well as the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles. If you are a fan, go get it from the Steam client or buy it!

The world is vast, the adventures are huge, and the quests are endless! The music, audio, and general sound works well for this game too. Unfortunately, the port from console to PC didn’t go too well…and as such, there are some errors, glitches, and general bugs that mess with the game play of the world. You may need some Elder Scrolls Skyrim game fixes to help troubleshoot all these problems so that you can get back to the actual gaming!

TESV.exe stopped working and crashes Skyrim when launching
Skyrim Freezes
Dungeon 1 Crashing Computer
Skyrim Lagging
Game Fails to Launch
Skyrim Crashing
Mouse is Inverted

There are plenty of other problems with this game too, but luckily patches are already being released. Patch 1 / Update 1 is already available to fix some of the problems with stability and quests. Hopefully some increased frame rate will come next or a better texture pack.

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• Steampunk wings: bigger, heavier, and steampunkier
  This pair of backpack-mounted wings was conceived after seeing the Angel/Archangel character in the movie X-Men: The Last Stand. They measure 14’6″ inches across, but they fold up so that the wearer can actually get around in them. The mechanism is built from MDF, using several layers of gears cut from the material as well [...]
• LUFA open source USB stack now for NXP ARM processors
  Looks like the Lightweight USB Framework for AVRs (LUFA) has just been ported for ARM microcontrollers. NXP recently released a package for their LPC Cortex M3 family of ARM controllers. You won’t find a reference to LUFA on their nxpUSBlib description page (which we think is kind of sad), but if you grab a copy [...]
• iPad 2 gets a home in hacked iDJ Live console
  [DJ FileSpnR] did a number on this IDJ Live hardware to make room for an integrated iPad. Those that have seen the hardware before may not even recognize it. In stock condition the controller has two turn-table actuators with cross-fader control in between them. The iPad perches on top like a book, making it a [...]
• Thailand residents use hacks to make the best of a horrible situation
  Thailand is dealing with horrible flooding right now. Despite the hardship, people still need to get around and go on with life so many have come up with clever hacks to make this disaster more manageable. [Jan] wrote in to let us know about this collection of flood-related hacks which he’s put together. They are wide-ranging, [...]

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• RGB upgrade for Ikea single color fiber optic lamp
  Five bucks will buy you a STRÅLA lamp from Ikea. It’s a battery operated hanging lamp that pipes the light out through multiple branches of fiber optic bundles. But you’ll only get white out of this, which is pretty boring. [Boris] decided to swap out the stock LED for an RGB unit and drive it with [...]
• 20 kilovolts replaces push pins on this bulletin board
  Electrical Engineers don’t need push pins. That’s because they know how to control electrons! [Sven] put his knowledge of these subatomic particles to use when building his high voltage bulletin board. It uses a set of vertically strung wires to keep paper pinned against the board. The wires have high voltage at low current travelling [...]
• Toilet Buddy helps cover up bathroom noises
  When it comes to bathroom etiquette, [Nick] and the crew at Gadget Gangster are nothing less than proper gentlemen. Inspired by a Japanese toilet that automatically plays a “courtesy flush” noise in an effort to conserve water while masking sounds, they created the Toilet Buddy. While the Toilet Buddy does nothing to cover up any [...]
• Hackaday Links: November 10, 2011
  Experimentations with haptics [Chris] sent in two videos (1, 2) documenting his experiments with haptic feedback. He’s recording the position of a DC motor and can either play it back or send it to another motor. It’s very similar to the kissing robot we saw earlier this year, but we’re not making any judgments. Mobile Emergency [...]

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• Pikachu is coming for you (especially on carpet)
  If you look closely, you’ll see that Pikachu isn’t sporting a pair of funky throwing stars, but is actually suspended between there. Our furry friend is just putting a happy face on this carpet roving robot called the Carpet Monkey V5. It’s been in the works for years, and this is just one more stop [...]
• Candy chucker – weapon, or advanced Halloween delivery system?
  Now we know why kids in this neighborhood wear plastic Halloween masks instead of just painting their faces. They’re trying to protect themselves from the onslaught of hard candy spewing out the front of this candy chucking pumpkin. The mechanism operates very much like a baseball or football throwing device. Now that we think of [...]
• Reverse engineering MyKeepon
  [qDot] recently got his hands on a MyKeepon toy and after messing with it a bit, decided to tear it down to see what was inside. He had hopes of easily modding the toy, but like most adventures in hacking, things might take a while longer than he first imagined. In his teardown you can [...]
• Hacking a VS200 Food Sealer
  This food sealer just wasn’t cutting it for [Tinkering Engineer], so he decided to do something about it. The issue with this sealer was that it didn’t have a mode where it could simply seal bags without pulling a vacuum on it. Going through the whole process takes a reported 40 seconds in order to [...]

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• Counterfeit electronics in military weapons
  Boeng and the US military found some systems on new P-8 Posiedons to be defective. The culprit: counterfeit electronics. These are scrap parts from 80s-90s electronics that have been re-branded and sold to the government as new.  Many of the parts have been linked to dealers in China, but the Chinese government feels no need [...]
• Personal flight from the steam age
  From a small-sized backpack these wings slowly grow to full size in a Steampunk costume that hearkens back to DaVinci flight designs. The mechanism that unfolds the wings was fashioned from parts of a baby gate and an old back massager. The massager features a pair of orbs that are meant to move slowly up and down [...]
• Making an RF controlled light switch work with IR
  [Gary] had an RF triggered light switch kicking around, and wanted to find a way to control his lights using a home theater remote. The switch, which he bought from RadioShack years ago, came with a simple remote that uses two buttons to toggle the lights on and off. While you might think that switching [...]
• Beginner concepts: We’re gonna let you finish, but first this tutorial on Arduino interrupts
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• G-35 Christmas lights do make a great LED matrix
  This fully-addressable RGB LED matrix was built by [John Graham-Cummings]. He didn’t start from scratch, but wisely repurposed a strand of GE Color Effect lights and built a pleasant looking case in which to mount the G-35 hardware. We’ve seen this hardware used in a similar way before. Because each ‘bulb’ has its own microcontroller, [...]
• This Panavise Jr. Speed Winder should be in every maker’s toolbox
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• Ikea wine rack originally sold as a mattress holder
  [Jeremy Walworth] has been dumpster diving again. He noticed that his neighbor had a bucked of nice-looking wood out at the curb for garbage collection. He inquired about it and learned that it was an Ikea bed that had broken, and that the original hardware was still there in a separate bag. He dragged it [...]
• HEX Out reveals the secrets your data bus holds
  [Quinn Dunki] is looking to augment the tools she has available at her electronics bench and built the HEX Out as a mock-logic sniffer. The device reads 8 or 16-bit inputs, showing the current state of those connections on a 7-segment display. This requires that you’re comfortable reading Hex codes, but if you’re not it’s [...]

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• Canon FD lenses on an EOS mount
  Camera lenses are expensive and if you’re like us, you can easily find really cheap lenses that your camera can’t use. [Sam] has a Canon EOS and a bunch of old-school FD lenses at his disposal. There’s one problem though: using these old lenses with an adapter means focusing at infinity is out of the [...]
• DIY spot welder can join anything together, even copper
  Hackaday reader [David] was looking for a cheap and easy way to spot weld copper tabs together. As he notes in his writeup, the properties of copper which are most enticing, such as high thermal capacity, make welding it all that more difficult. His home-brew method of spot welding is admittedly quick and dirty, but [...]
• 4Track robot gets around with ease
  [Jon] has been developing a slick little RC robot in bits and pieces over the last year or so, which can constructed by anyone with access to a 3D printer. Servos and electronics aside, the entire thing can be put together in short order using the plans he posted on Thingiverse. The robot makes use [...]
• Hackaday Links: November 6th, 2011
  Build details for Raspberry Pi prototype With the launch of Raspberry Pi approaching the development team released the details about the prototypes from about five years ago. The board was originally based on an ATmega644 and built on some perfboard. ‘Zero Energy Device’ challenge We call BS on the title of this one, but the [...]

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• CadSoft’s EAGLE 6 hits beta and packs goodies
  Version 6 of the popular schematic and PCB layout software EAGLE is now in beta testing. The most notable change is the migration to XML file formats that we looked at last month. [PT] didn’t waste any time getting his hands on the software and giving it a thorough test drive. The image seen above [...]
• Halloween Hacks: An evil R/C clown car for terrorizing the neighborhood
  If you had a few too many trick or treaters hitting up your house this year, [phwillys] has a solution guaranteed to keep them from coming back. He was looking for a way to scare the crap out of the trick or treaters this past Halloween, so he constructed a remote-controlled evil jeep to terrorize [...]
• Controlling shift registers via SPI
  Hack a Day’s very own (and very prolific contributor) [Mike Szczys] put up a great tutorial on how to drive shift registers with an SPI interface. [Mike]‘s earlier tutorial of the 595 shift register goes through the functions of a shift register pin by pin. In a 595, bits for each position in the register [...]
• Weekly roundup 11/5/11
  In case you missed them the first time, here are this week’s most popular posts: Our most popular post is about an octocopter that is big enough to hover a person who is perched perilously in the center of an angry array of blades that are counting on Murphy’s law for their chance to taste [...]

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• DIY drum triggers & recreating [Bonzo]‘s Vistalites
  [Rob] has been working on his drum trigger build, and he’s finally decided to share it with us. His drum heads and triggers don’t look like anything we’ve ever seen, but he’s pretty confident he has a good kit in the works. The first unconventional of the build is the drum triggers. The triggers are [...]
• Halloween Hacks: Motion sensing fog machine
  [monkeysinacan] wanted to add a fog machine to his Halloween display, but he says that the cheaper consumer-grade models are pretty unruly beasts. He cites short duty cycles and tricky fog control as his two biggest gripes with these sorts of foggers. He decided make the fogging process a little more manageable, and modified his [...]
• Shutter trigger remote with some nice design considerations
  Here are the guts of [Lukasz's] infrared camera remote control. He based it off of an existing design, but looked for places where improvements could be made. He felt the ATtiny2313 was a bit wasteful in this case. But further investigation led him to see why it was chosen. If you were to drop down [...]
• Camping light retrofitted as a solar recharging station
  With grand plans of tenting out for several days at a music festival [Josh] needed a way recharge his portable devices. In the past he’s lugged around a 12V battery with him, but this year he wanted to make things easier. He ended retrofitting a camping light to do the job with the help of [...]

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• Second run at taser gloves uses bug zapper parts
  [Jair2k4] ditched the Altoids tins and found a new voltage source for this latest rendition of his taser gloves. Regular readers will remember his first iteration which used wrist-mounted enclosures containing the flash circuitry from disposable cameras to shock the wits out of someone with the laying on of hands. This one is a complete [...]
• Using WebSocket with PIC microcontrollers
  [Blaise Jarrett] has been grinding away to get the WebSocket protocol to play nicely with PIC microcontrollers. Here he’s using the PIC 18F4620 along with a Roving Networks RN-XV WiFi module to get the device on the network. He had started with a smaller processor but ran into some RAM restrictions so keep that in [...]
• TV-B-Gone can double as a camera remote control
  [Christopher] found a way to get a bit more mileage out of his TV-B-Gone kit. The little device is intended to turn off every television in range with the push of a button. But at its core it’s really just a microcontroller connected to some infrared LEDs. Instead of sending codes to shut of televisions, [...]
• Bomb disposal robot with Lego gripper
  [Krash] had a lot of fun hacking up his Spy Gear TRAKR; we’re just lucky he was able to move a suspicious Shrek doll before it detonated. The now discontinued Spy Gear TRAKR serves as the basis for [Krash]‘s build. This tiny remote-controlled toy transmits video back to its remote and makes us very jealous [...]