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Skyrim Dawnguard: Bloodcursed Elven Arrows Don’t Work?

If you’re having this issue in Skyrim’s Dawnguard where shooting a bloodcursed arrow from Auriel’s bow has no effect, the reason is due to a small bug.

If you improve Auriel’s bow (as I did using Moonstone to ‘Legendary’), this confuses the game and treats Auriel’s bow as if it’s a different weapon, and the special sun-blotting power doesn’t activate. Particularly annoying if you want to unlock the achievement!

PC players can work around this bug by spawning in another copy of the original Auriel’s Bow with the console command: player.additem 02000800 1

Hopefully Bethesda will fix this bug in an upcoming patch….

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Skyrim Dawnguard: Virtual C++ Library Crash to Desktop

You may have noticed that the new Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Dawnguard DLC for the PC is crashing a lot for you, with a Microsoft Virtual C++ Library exception, citing a ‘pure virtual function call’ error.

No good explanation for this. The crashes are not often triggered by anything, they just seem to happen randomly during play. It may be due to Dawnguard’s ridiculously massive open-world mechanics causing some kind of memory exception, and it can’t be a conflict with any Skyrim mods because I don’t have any installed.

It’s bloody annoying anyway. Please post any possible fixes.