Visual Artifacts

[ZableBlaze]

Recently, I have noticed visual artifacts appearing because of certain NPCs which are added because of mods. The first artifact were red circles, and if I entered the console and clicked on them, it would bring up an NPC name. If I disabled this NPC, they would disappear. This NPC was apart of Tamriel Travelers. So I disabled this mod. The second artifact I found is part of Reigon Revive - Lake Rumare, which caused the whole screen to change colour, with random colours and such. This was also an NPC doing this, disabling the NPC or the mod fixes this. Any help reguarding this would be awesome.

 

EDIT: One of the artifacts is a really long tail coming off a Khajiit. It appears to go on forever.

[Kodiack]

I once had similar issues. I believed it was mod-related (specifically Natural Environments), but later found out that it was from a graphics card overclock gone a bit too far. Do you do any overclocking at all? If so, revert the clock speeds to their original speeds for a little bit. You'd be surprised what kind of display artifacts are possible when hardware is pushed beyond its limits. D:

[bben46]

I had a similar problem, clothing laying on cabinets would stretch across the room., or if outside into the distance. I tracked it to a power problem. My power supply was getting a little flaky, 12 volt supply drooping, and causing my Graphics board to overheat. When I checked it, my +12v was 11v, dropping to 9.5v intermittently. Replacing the power supply cleared it up.

One symptom was hearing the fans change pitch just before seeing the video problem.

[Kodiack]

I had a similar problem, clothing laying on cabinets would stretch across the room., or if outside into the distance. I tracked it to a power problem. My power supply was getting a little flaky, 12 volt supply drooping, and causing my Graphics board to overheat. When I checked it, my +12v was 11v, dropping to 9.5v intermittently. Replacing the power supply cleared it up.

One symptom was hearing the fans change pitch just before seeing the video problem.

 

This is a plausible cause, too. If a graphics card isn't meeting its demands, it will have issues. Today, I overclocked my graphics card quite a bit further. I found that I couldn't get my core clock very high, but my memory clock could go quite a bit higher, even though it was well above the defaults already.

 

Be sure that your GPU is getting adequate power, is properly cooled, and try to observe where the artifacts happen the most. When I overclock too far, I get display artifacts very rarely in places such as cities; however, within a few seconds of going into an extremely demanding area that has large draw distances and oodles of polygons to render, things get funky.

 

What I'd recommend is lowering all your settings to the bare minimum and checking to see if the issue persists. If it does, it very well could be mod-related. If it doesn't, your graphics card is likely being stressed a bit too much.