Blue textures frequently appearing on armors and clothes.

[mdaley1992]

So I'm getting a lot of blue textures appearing on armors, and occasionally black walls in interiors as well. I'm unsure of the cause, though I wonder if it may have anything to do with my recent installation of SMIM. As I was always running the same texture packs on my last mod install, and I never had these issues. I've BOSS'ed my load order, and have bash patched as correctly as I possibly could. My GPU temps never go over 50, so I wouldn't think that it is my GPU (I play plenty of recent games much more demanding than a modded skyrim and never seem to have any texture issues).

All of my screenshots are too big to upload. But its basically a blank, blue mesh, as if the textures just vanished or some bullshit. It only seems to happen on certain things, mostly armor and clothes (but occasionally I get blacked out grass, or walls inside of buildings). Exiting the game and re-starting seems to fix the problem briefly, but it always seems to come back again.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

[BufusTurbo92]

Probably SMIM is causing you trouble if you had no issues before installing it.
However I'd reccomend to try to lower/optimize your textures with Optimizer and see if that works. Blank textures usually mean your GPU is bleeding: the fact that restarting Skyrim solves temporarily your texture problem is a clear sign of that.

Let us know if that worked. :D

[mdaley1992]

Bleeding? Sorry, I'm not overly tech savvy in this regard. I'm running a r9 280x 3gb, if that is any assistance to you at all. I've just downgraded to the 'lite' version of skyrim 2k textures. Though Im still running a few of the 'Amidianborn' texture mods, armor, creatures and the like, as well as SMIM, WATER, and pure weather.
I'll see if the downgrade makes a difference, and then I'll look at the optimizer mod you listed if that fails. I'm a bit wary of doing things that might break my save/game?

[Noortje]

Textures can't break your save game they are unrelated.

[mdaley1992]

SMIM isnt strictly textures though. Would it be safe to remove mid playthrough if I needed to, or would I need to start a new game from scratch?

[Noortje]

Any mod that is purely graphical without a .esp file or scripts like SMIM is completely harmless to your save game, it doesn't affect it in any way.

[bojanni]

This usually means Skyrim is running out of memory. Do you use an ENB? Or EN boost?

[mdaley1992]

No, I dont run an ENB or EN boost. I hadn't felt overly confident in their setup. That, and I'd assumed I'd take a massive performance hit with them?

[Noortje]

ENboost improves performance, ENB decreases it.

[mdaley1992]

I downgraded to the lite packs for skyrim HD. I almost thought it solved the issue. unfortunately, it did not, hello plastic blue clothes and armor. It did seem to take a bit longer for the problem to re appear though. I cant work out if its an issue with missing files or if its a memory issue. Like I said, its a 3gb card (Im running the latest (beta(for GTA5)) drivers) and in comparison to some people with similar setups, Im hardly running an overly modded game texture wise.