Falling through bridges glitch, as well as many others [Vanilla]

[AlteredEvolution]

I apologize in advance for posting all of my issues in a single thread; I thought it may be easier to explain and manage if I did.

 

After seemingly breaking Skyrim after installing only one mod (DynDOLOD), I decided to reinstall it and try installing other mods instead.

I uninstalled both Skyrim and NMM, as well as any remnants of mods in NMM's directory and SKSE within Skyrim's steam directory respectively.

 

FIRST ISSUE:

 

The game runs great, aside from the fact that I fall straight through, or am sometimes catapulted from, the bridge you cross on your way out of Helgen (the one that gets crushed by rocks after crossing it) as well as the fact that models seem to jolt around continuously.

 

I continued onward, thinking it was a 'one-time' thing; however the same occurred with the small bridge in Embershard Mine, it is like the game doesn't detect it. Not to mention that enemy models were still jolting.

Out of fear of this arising later in game, I'm too afraid to continue playing at this point, as I don't want to level a character I will most likely need to delete.

While I know this issue is very easy to bypass by using the console or simply bunny-hopping across, I'd prefer to solve the issue outright. Even if I have to reinstall the game; as either solution largely breaks immersion.

 

SECOND ISSUE:

I have an occasional graphical and audio glitch with water. (Lakes, rivers, waterfalls - I think)
The body of water would flicker and continuously play the audio cue you hear when surfacing from underwater.

While I did have water related mods installed on my previous play-thoroughs, this issue still persists on my freshly installed vanilla copy.

 

SYSTEM SPECS:

 

CPU: Intel Core i5 4590 @ 3.30GHz

GPU: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VRAM: 4095MB

RAM: 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)

The HDD Skyrim is installed on has 774GB of free space

Type of PC: Desktop

I do have a dual-monitor setup, though I am unaware if this has any effect.

 

GAME RELATED INFORMATION:

Location: D:\Games\steamapps\common\Skyrim

Game version: 1.9.32.0

 

DLC: Hearthfire, Dawnguard and Dragonborn

Currently not using NMM, though I plan to once this issue is resolved and did make use of it previously. (Version: 0.60.7)

SKSE: 1_07_03

 

Other programs: LOOT and Tes5Edit. (Made sure to clean masters and ensure proper load order)

 

While I was unable to follow the instructions regarding how to paste the LOOT log and while I do not have any mods installed.
I will post my LOOT "details" as copied from the program.

 

messages:
  - content: "[Latest LOOT thread](http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1531778-rel-loot-thread-20/)."
    type: say
  - type: say
    content: Your SKSE is up-to-date.
plugins:
  - isDirty: false
    name: Skyrim.esm
    crc: 3328572758
    version: ""
    isActive: true
    isEmpty: false
    loadsBSA: false
    modPriority: 0
    isGlobalPriority: false
    messages:
      []
    tags: ~
  - modPriority: -999999
    isEmpty: false
    loadsBSA: true
    name: Update.esm
    isActive: true
    version: ""
    crc: 113893092
    isGlobalPriority: true
    messages:
      []
    tags:
      - name: C.Location
      - name: Delev
      - name: Invent
      - name: Relev
    isDirty: false
  - name: HighResTexturePack01.esp
    crc: 3583438890
    version: ""
    isActive: true
    isEmpty: true
    loadsBSA: true
    modPriority: -999000
    isGlobalPriority: true
    messages:
      []
    tags: ~
    isDirty: false
  - name: HighResTexturePack02.esp
    crc: 3583438890
    version: ""
    isActive: true
    isEmpty: true
    loadsBSA: true
    modPriority: -999000
    isGlobalPriority: true
    messages:
      []
    tags: ~
    isDirty: false
  - name: HighResTexturePack03.esp
    crc: 3583438890
    version: ""
    isActive: true
    isEmpty: true
    loadsBSA: true
    modPriority: -999000
    isGlobalPriority: true
    messages:
      []
    tags: ~
    isDirty: false

 

 

I hope to have these issues resolved so I could begin to mod a stable game.

Any feedback or advice is greatly appreciated.

 

Again, I apologize if I am not allowed to post two problems within one thread and if I did not follow proper instructions. Kindly inform me and I shall make the necessary changes.

 

Thank you, in advance.

 

[kenaigamer]

With only Skyrim and Update esm's loaded your game can't get more basic. I can only think of two things that might be causing problems:

 

1. How do you start your game? With SKSE loaded you must load your game through SKSE, not the Skyrim launcher.

 

2. When you were cleaning the Master files with TES5Edit did you clean the Skyrim.esm by mistake?

[AlteredEvolution]

Thanks for your input,

 

I do run Skyrim through the SKSE loader, though I tried both with and without SKSE loaded - the issues were still there.
Though I have cleaned all my masters, I strongly doubt I cleaned Skyrim.esm. I will reinstall my game again later today and check. (that should reset the esm to normal I believe.)

UPDATE:
Even after removing Skyrim via revo uninstaller and reinstalling - while my saves loaded perfectly, both issues still persist.

Edited September 25, 2015 by AlteredEvolution

[kenaigamer]

Interesting.

 

Have you tried starting a new game or are you using "old" game saves?

[AlteredEvolution]

I have tried both using an old save as well as starting a completely new one.

Sadly, the results remained unchanged.

[postal001]

Are you reinstalling through steam?

[AlteredEvolution]

Hi Postal,

 

Yes, I am indeed using steam for that, as I bought a digital copy from them.
Unfortunately, unless I am mistaken, there is no other way to install a steam game.

 

For what it's worth - I have also tried verifying my game cache on numerous occasions; although two files seem to be missing and are replaced, no issues were resolved.

[Roscaria]

Whenever you verify your game cache you return your files to the way they were when originally downloaded. This means that if you have used TES5Edit to clean any files it has been cancelled out by the verification process and will need to be redone.

 

1 file will always fail to validate. This is normal and is required by Steam for graphic configuration. In your case you also had the original Update.esm file downloaded as it had been cleaned, which is why your verification stated 2 files would be reacquired. If you had all the DLC's activated and cleaned you would have got the warning 5 files needed to be reacquired.

 

Which version of Windows are you using?

[AlteredEvolution]

Thank you Roscaria,

I will try cleaning everything without verifying Skyrim's cache.

I am using Windows 7 Professional x64

[jones177]

Have you check your frame rate?

 

When I ran a 970 at 1080 my frame rate was over 140 & all kinds of strange things happened. I usually keep vsync on but I was testing frame rate at different resolutions at the time.

 

If you have a 120+hz monitor you can use ENBoost to get frame rate down to 60 as well.

 

Later