Unique Landscapes corrupts terrain textures

[Falcata]

After installing all of the available Unique Landscapes mods, I fired up Oblivion and found that the terrain textures on the landscape have suddenly turned to a purple-tinted overhead map of the imperial city and lake rumare, while distant terrain textures / LOD are unaffected. Anyone else had this problem, and how do I fix it?

 

Screenshots:

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7649/screenshot0jka.th.png

 

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7146/screenshot1tpd.th.png

[dezdimona]

any other mods installed?

 

 

Edited 4/25/09 - added link to shaders - Thanks Qwaxalot

 

I believe this is caused by a group of files called shaders. These files can be different for different graphics cards. If they somehow get the wrong shaders installed one of the results is the terrain in the foreground is purple. The shader package is based on your particular graphics card and is installed when you first install Oblivion.

 

I have seen 4 possible fixes for this problem.

 

The easiest is to go into your in game menu, (esc) select video and make sure your texture size is set to large.

 

The second involved the textures from unique landscapes. reinstalling them fixed it.

 

The third is replacing the shaders, see this: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=20348 Thanks to Qwaxalot for this tip

The shaders may be graphic card dependent, I'm not sure on this.

 

The fourth involves loading patches in the wrong order and the only way to fix that one is to reinstall in the right order. Note that the oblivion uninstaller leaves behind your saves, mods (data) and some entries in the Windows registry. These will still be there after you have reinstalled. So if You have a problem with a mod causing the problem or a bad save or a bad Registry entry, The problem may still be there.

 

My recommended uninstall and reinstall leaves you with a clean install. And your original mods and saves in a separate folder that you can put back into the new game. Or you can start over and install your mods again.

See this for my recommendation for uninstalling and reinstalling Oblivion. http://s1.zetaboards.com/TheStormRavenLibrary/topic/344290/

[Falcata]

Thank you for that information, dezdimona. There is in fact a mod that replaces my shader packages, which is one meant to replace the night-eye shader. It, however, replaces ALL of the shaders, rather than just the nighteye shader. As I had been undergroudn when I initially tested it, I wouldn't have seen the change until later.