Labada

the thread seems old, however if you or others who may still experience the same problem, here is my solution: I've had this problem not on Shepard, but on NPCs, mostly the crew members in the Normandy. The newer versions of the mod "ALOT" (A Lot of Textures) for Mass Effect 3 made extra tweaks to improve graphics on the GamerSettings.ini located in the Bioware user folder (C:\Data\User Data\*USERNAME*\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 3\BIOGame\Config). I first thought that the mod itself was the issue, but upon further investigation I could locate the issue was caused from the tweaked settings, so it wasn't the actual mod. I could fix this issue by removing the Texture Tweaks for Characters and Shadows, as well as by disabling DepthOfField (which I don't like anyway, but I am not sure if DepthOfField actually was triggering the issue for me). So I suggest to check your GamerSettings.ini file and remove the following lines, if they're written there (you may want to backup the file before): TEXTUREGROUP_Character_1024=(MinLODSize=2048,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0) TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Diff=(MinLODSize=512,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0) TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Norm=(MinLODSize=512,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0) TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Spec=(MinLODSize=512,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0) MaxShadowResolution=2048 MinShadowResolution=64 ShadowFilterQualityBias=2 ShadowFilterRadius=5 bEnableBranchingPCFShadows=True DepthOfField=True Upon removing the lines, I couldn't really notice any graphical differences, even the shadows looked the same to me, however the problem with the broken textures/meshes on the NPC faces vanished after that though, so I wouldn't care less about the settings as long as the problem was gone. Even though this response comes late, maybe it helps to other people who may encounter into this issue. Cheers

I don't know if it's possible with Win8, but did you try running the game executable in compatibility mode for Win7 or WinXP? If it's possible, try it with a new clean installation of the game, since you've got the "snowflake.nif" error code.

Did you try to teleport youself out of the mine through the console? Open the console with your tilde key and write the following: coc balmora This may work.

I've exactly the same problem, the only difference for me is, that I am using Win7 64bit instead of WinXP. I've also tested this without using any mods, but no change. Also, I've noticed that when bartening with merchants added through mods, there are no problems increassing or decrassing the gold amount by holding down the mouse botton. It seems affecting only the standard game merchants. Is there any sulution for this issue? Edit: I've solved the issue by myself. The game makes some trouble when running with more then 75fps for some reason. Since I'm using a 120Hz display, I had my FPS limiter always on 120fps + vsync on. I've changed this through the nvidia profile (with nvidia inspector) to limit the fps for Morrowind with 75fps but yet vsync is on and now it's running without problems when bartering with the buttons.