Error failed to initialize renderer (Skyrim): how to fix, tips

Everything is lost! Favorite game does not start, panic begins. And all because the error on the screen failed to initialize the renderer in Skyrim. How to fix it? There are ways by which you can solve the problem and enter the fascinating world of Skyrim.

DirectX

Check your version of DirectX, maybe it will have to be updated. Well, if DirectX last version and other games worked fine? Pay attention to the error itself, if it says the following: Try to install DirectX 9 or newer, then the program will have to reinstall. To do this, you need to find DirectX Happy Uninstall. Try now to start the game.

Skyrim.ini

There may be different settings in Skyrim.ini, because of them the error failed to initialize renderer. In Skyrim how to fix it, not everyone knows. You need to find these files and change them. On drive C, find the "User" folder (User, your name), there you will need Documents and My games, and in it Skyrim. Find Skyrim.ini. And SkyrimPrefs.ini. Click on them with the right mouse button, select "Properties" from the drop-down menu, see if the checkbox "Attribute Parameters" in the "Read Only" field is checked. If it's worth it, uncheck it, click "Apply", "OK". Does not help? So, you have to delete them. Then run SkyrimLauncher.exe, then the game itself will create new files ini. Now try starting and check whether it turned out now or not. Most often it works.

Video card

Still having a failed to initialize renderer error in Skyrim? How to fix, you think? A casket just opened: update the driver for your video card. It's best to do this from official sites. If you have no idea what your graphics card is, click "Start", then "Standard" and "Run." A window will appear, you need to enter dxdiag there and run. You need to find the "Display" tab, the "Device" section, the "Name" field. In the "Drivers" section, look at the date. The more time passed, the more desirable the update. It is recommended to go to the site of the manufacturer of the PC / laptop and download the driver from there. If not, then the video card manufacturer's site will help.

For Windows 8, the integrated graphics card (integrated) helps. Find in the folder SkyrimLauncher.exe, click on it, right click, see if Run with graphics processor. If there is, go to the arrow, select Integrated graphics and click.

Inconsistency of the aspect ratio and screen resolution in the game

Yes, it can also lead not only to errors, even to the blue screens of death, and then gamers sit and think how to run Skyrim if it writes failed to initialize the renderer. In the game, look for the "Screen Resolution" menu, then "Options". Now select the aspect ratio, then the screen resolution. If the desired resolution is not displayed, select a different ratio.

Changing Rights

The first thing to do is find the Program files folder (x86) on drive C, steam in it, followed by steamapps and common. Find Skyrim, click on it with the right mouse button, then select it in the "Security" menu. Click "Change", and then give all users complete permissions. Click "OK" and try to enter the game.

MO

All this does not help, it appears failed to initialize the renderer in Skyrim, how to fix it ?? Do you have a MO or Mod Organizer? Surely you have a default profile there. So, create your own profile. Try now to start the game from this profile.

Viruses

Yes, it's trite, but if everything worked before, but now it does not, then somewhere there was a virus that harms the system. You should run the antivirus and check. Do not be lazy to go to Dr.Web CureIt. On it you can find the utility and check it.

We hope that our advice was useful to you, and that Skyrim safely launched.