Floating dust particles have changed from vanilla, & no dust replacement/removing mods are working

[StultusCordum]

I saw earlier today when I went into Ilinalta's deep that the floating dust particles looked different. I had been using a texture mod for dust that made it much finer and harder to see, and I thought maybe that the mod had gotten messed up somehow, but the texture that the particles now have isn't even the vanilla one from before I put on the mod. I've never seen it before.

 

Just before I noticed this I had installed some other small texture mods, one for window textures, one for sun glare, and one for spell impacts. Besides that I haven't done anything to change any textures in the game. I tried disabling these, along with all my other texture mods, but the dust still stayed the same. So I tried downloading a mod to remove dust particles entirely, and even that didn't work. No other dust retextures I've tried today have done anything either.

 

So right now the floating dust in my game looks really thick, like falling curtains of dust everywhere. It's pretty ugly and I don't know what caused it, if anyone knows anything about this I really appreciate it!

 

not sure how well you can see it in a still picture, but I took some screenshots:

http://imgur.com/ygBzT0c

http://imgur.com/Pyoko67

http://imgur.com/wnnFEz7

 

 

[Darkstyler35]

Not clear for me as in the title you say "removing mods are working" and in the post "I tried disabling these, along with all my other texture mods, but the dust still stayed the same"

• Check if in the original archives of the dust mods you've installed, there are loose textures files. Delete these files from your data/textures... folder
• Rename temporarilly your data/textures... folder to invalidate its content
• Disable ALL your mods, ( not uninstall) and test in game. If it worked, increase slowly your loading mods untill you find the badboy.
• Make sure there are not any ini settings that manage this. Backup your ini files if you have modified them and delete the files. Skyrim.ini / SkyrimCustom.ini / SkyrimPrefs.ini found in C:\Users\Utilisateur\Documents\My Games\Skyrim
• Verify gamecache

[StultusCordum]

 

Not clear for me as in the title you say "removing mods are working" and in the post "I tried disabling these, along with all my other texture mods, but the dust still stayed the same"

• Check if in the original archives of the dust mods you've installed, there are loose textures files. Delete these files from your data/textures... folder
• Rename temporarilly your data/textures... folder to invalidate its content
• Disable ALL your mods, ( not uninstall) and test in game. If it worked, increase slowly your loading mods untill you find the badboy.
• Make sure there are not any ini settings that manage this. Backup your ini files if you have modified them and delete the files. Skyrim.ini / SkyrimCustom.ini / SkyrimPrefs.ini found in C:\Users\Utilisateur\Documents\My Games\Skyrim
• Verify gamecache

 

What I mean in the title is that mods that replace or remove the dust texture aren't working at all, sorry about that confusion.

 

I did everything you suggested, and I even re-installed the game with all my mods disabled, but none of that worked, thanks for the suggestions though! Since the dust was still like this after I re-installed, I'm assuming it is now the vanilla texture somehow, but I have no idea how unless the game got updated and it was changed. If that's the case it still doesn't explain why mods can't do anything to this dust.

[Darkstyler35]

Ok, check if your dust mods have a bsa archive. Extract the textures of this mod in your skyrim/data folder, if prompted to overwrite, say yes to all. This is just to ensure you don't have any vanilla loose file already extracted, or installed by another mod, overwriting coud be the solution.

[StultusCordum]

Ok, check if your dust mods have a bsa archive. Extract the textures of this mod in your skyrim/data folder, if prompted to overwrite, say yes to all. This is just to ensure you don't have any vanilla loose file already extracted, or installed by another mod, overwriting coud be the solution.

I don't see any .bsa files in the dust mods, and when I extract the textures to the data folder, it doesn't say it's overwriting anything. Im not sure what you mean by bsa archive though, is that something that's in the mod files?

[Darkstyler35]

<Im not sure what you mean by bsa archive though, is that something that's in the mod files?>

yes and it is a special archive file that contain everything except esp and esm. See in your data folder or in the archive you've downloaded. In other words, if another mod using vanilla textures, have overwriten the textures in the skyrim/data folder, If you install after a mod that uses NEW textures but in BSA files, the loading priority will be always to load the loose files first. So ensure if your new mod has textures, they are extracted in the skyrim/data folder so they will have the priority.