madman1973 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I need help with this somewhat glaring problem I recently encountered. I recently bought a new desktop and installed Skyrim on it. Updated with all the DLC. Installed NMM, SKSE and a truckload of mods (40+). Lately I've noticed that after I kill human enemy NPCs, their eyes remain open. AFAIK in all my previous playthroughs on both PS3 and my previous PCs, eyes of dead NPCs are always closed. Why is it different this time? Here are some details about it. Once they're dead, eyes open. If you remove an article of clothing- whether just shoes or headgear or armor, or everything, they close their eyes. But if you animate them (with a raise spell) their eyes are strangely CLOSED. But when it wears off (I installed the 'possessive corpses' mod that removes the ash pile limitation on low-level necromancy spells), their eyes are open again. I've tried turning off various mods that involve the character models- but this happens to both female and male NPCs of any race. I even turned off ALL plugins on NMM, it's STILL there. I know that this may be interpreted as 'gritty' or more 'realistic' as death stares often happen. But I DON'T LIKE IT. I don't like how it looks and I am bothered by it. I want it back to the way before, where corpses are dead with their eyes closed. I don't like having to loot corpses just to close their eyes. Is there something that may have caused this? Or can there be a fix? As of this writing I have just gone and done a full reinstall- but I am worried it may happen again. Please help! I'll post a vid of this bug as soon as I can upload it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madman1973 Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Okay, here's a video of my wide-eyed corpses thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SiFx_9nG7A Turns out it happened even early in my game, so I've started a full reinstall. Still, I'm not sure if that will fix this. Any help to prevent this or remedy it should it happen again would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madman1973 Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 This may actually be something caused by the recent patches, since my game just got updated after I installed it. Hoping Bethesda patches this problem, it's really turning me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coolipy Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) I can back you up there mate, must be the update! Noticed it yesterday, during the Vaermina Daedric Quest. All the actors that were killed died with their eyes open. The actors that were placed "dead" had their eyes shut. I also saw when I'd resurrect the dead NPCs, they'd have their eyes shut. At first I thought it was pretty cool, because the first enemy I dispatched was with an Ice Spike and it was kinda epic. But then I saw it on everyone! Edited March 20, 2013 by Coolipy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madman1973 Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Good to hear I'm not the only one. Hopefully it's fixed soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaradin Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Same case with characters sleeping - their eyes will remain open. Rather annoying, but I'm not worried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Bethesda just released a fix for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madman1973 Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 Yep. I was over at the Bethesda forums for it. The problem was a confirmed bug in 1.9, but the beta patch 1.9.32 more or less fixes it. Dead bodies no longer have eyes open. I tried it and it works. Only issue left is that when you reanimate them, their eyes are still closed but that I can live with. :) So now you can have sleepwalkers following you into battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kare kleven Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 (edited) Often when a person in rl dies suddenly, the eyes may not be closed so this may not be a bug. I do seen npc sleeps with eyes open while playing this game and that may be called a bug. Opposite of a dog in rl sleeps, you may notice that one or both eyes are somewhat open now and then and that is a behavour of nature. The npc eyes is not very important, but rather quests still bugged even I do have misc game fixes. I could put all the game fixes in the bottom of the load order so the esp will load last and overwrite everything else, but that is opposite what BOSS says (or other forum posters says). Cheers,-Klevs Edited March 21, 2013 by kare kleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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