Looks like I caught this little bug, too...
This is ridiculous. I'm playing Skyrim on PC (Steam, digital copy) and I've clocked 114 hours so far with only a handful of crashes, and only to desktop.
Ever since I actually got started on the main questline and ventured into the Riften Ratway to find some old coot, I've been experiencing hard shutdowns at irregular intervals; so far I've had anywhere between 4 and 29 minutes of game time before my computer would simply shut down without warning. What's even stranger, my computer doesn't even give me an error message upon rebooting, so it apparently views what it's doing as a regular system operation within normal parameters.
My cooling fans are making horrendous noise when the game crashes, but then again they've been doing that for 114 hours without incident (actually more like 2+ years, to be exact), so I don't see what the problem is all of a sudden, i.e. I'm having a hard time believing this is all because of hardware trouble.
Needless to say I'm a bit miffed. I've been having enormous amounts of fun with Skyrim, but if this crap persists my entire experience will be coloured by it. :\
