Skyrim randomly minimizes to desktop.

PerfectRa1n

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Skyrim randomly minimizes itself, or even silently crashes to my desktop. I have looked at many different sites and similar questions, but I cannot find a proper solution. I have no other notifications that force Skyrim to minimize, this computer is two weeks old, and Skyim is the only problem on my steam.

My Specs (Let me know if I forget something that I should have included):
AMD Radeon 270X
16 GB of RAM
i7-4820K CPU @ 3.70GHz
64-bit operating system and x64 based processor
 

PerfectRa1n

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It's an Alienware Aurora, that is fresh out of the box. I have only installed steam games and minecraft to it. I have McAfee, and it hasn't detected anything over the two weeks.
 

PerfectRa1n

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I did one complete playthrough, about two hours, no issues. I'll see if I can do another playthrough like that, and if all as well, I'll just pin the issue on McAfee. Thanks.
 

PerfectRa1n

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Unfortunately, it just crashed again. the only thing I had open was the steam menu, and a chat with a friend on steam in the background. I did a disk check and all seems well. It's truly stumping me.
 

PerfectRa1n

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I'd be very surprised if that was it, because literally the only thing I have downloaded off of the web was Steam, then Steam has downloaded the games. But I'll give it a shot.
 

PerfectRa1n

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I can't play in safe mode because it requires sound to play. I just uninstall all graphics drivers and then reinstalled them. Crashed within 15 minutes of beginning the game.
 

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Hmm... I guess you should probably wipe because Skyrim is all you have.
 

PerfectRa1n

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I'm running a Vanilla Skyrim. It displays no error messages. I just discovered that I forgot to install the drivers for my display. Perhaps that was the villain behind all of this.