15 minute crash fix for Windows 10 and 11

Do you play Skyrim under Windows 10 or 11 ?

Does the game crash exactly every 15 minutes, despite your best efforts with crash fixes, ENBboost crash fixes, etc. ?

Then this may help you !

What does it fix ?

On Windows 10 and 11, there is an unexplained incompatibility between Skyrim and the Tablet Input Service (tabtip.exe), which causes Skyrim to crash (CTD) on the 15 minute mark.

It allows you to play Skyrim for more than 15 minutes on a touch/pen enabled PC on Windows 10, while retaining the touch function while not playing.

Why was this made ?

I came across this while searching why, despite all my best efforts, and using several crash fix mods, my game seemed to crash in whatever circumstances, even with just my character standing there in her house.

Then I noticed that crashes seemed to occur every 15 minutes, and found several links (etc.) pointing to an incompatibility with the touch service.

Lo and behold, I tried that, and Skyrim ran way better. At least it did survive the 15 minute crash threshold.

But, I needed this service, because I also use touch on my PC, and didn't want to lose either the touch functionality, or endure Skyrim crashes, so the solution of just disabling the service was not applicable to my use case.

What does it NOT fix ?

Please note that this only fixes the 15 minute crash for people that have the touch input service enabled on Windows , e.g. people with laptops, using Wacom pen tablets, etc., since the service is manually started by default, and should automatically start only if there is a peripheral using it.

It seems Windows now sometimes enables this even without a real touch device attached to the system. So you may want to still try it anyways. Especially in recent versions of Windows (Windows 102004 and later) where it seems to run by default and to be made harder to deactivate (version 1. 0. 7 and later of this mod handles it).

It will not fix anything related to the game engine, your uGridsToLoad, memory, Papyrus scripts, etc. It specifically, only, fixes this one particular cause of crash.

How does it work ?

Basically, this is a little launcher. It gets the service state when it starts, disables and stops it, launches Skyrim, and restores the initial service state after Skyrim terminates.

Why use a launcher ? Well, I didn't know how to code a SKSE DLL, plus with Skyrim being a bit finicky and crashing for many other causes, it seemed safer to just wait for the process to exit.

- Auto detects Skyrim/SSE ins