Weird flat exterior textures

[greyday01]

In Riverwood sometimes Riverwood trader door is not visible, hidden behind strange flat wall textue but is still activateable. Some smithy pillars are strange looking. In Whiterun I can be walking waist deep in strange flat road or stair textures with the real textures visible near my feet. Some walls look strange and flat also. Whiterun in the distance is only partly showing with some visible pieces floating above empty space. All this doesn't show all the time. Comes and goes.

[anjenthedog]

"strange flat texture"???

 

in order of my own presumptions about what it is and what should be checked first... (if I understand what you're identifying... a pic would have been helpful)

 

I sometimes open the game, or while playing, cell change like going in or out of a building or cave or whatever, into a broken render, where various bits world (or interior space) have no applied texture and appear as a mono-colored ?purple?blue? flat surfaces.

 

If that's a correct interpretation of the situation:

 

1) I'd first attribute it to a possible transitory glitch. They happen. And when those glitches occur for me, I save, exit the game entirely, restart the game again, and load the save I just made. almost always it render correctly on that "second try" It's an easy no cost test/debug no harm no foul except the couple minutes for the game reboot. I have to do one of these probably once every few weeks or maybe a month (I play frequently)

 

2) If it's always, or always in a certain area, I'd be inclined to attribute it to some mod I installed that's either directly overwriting an affected area, or whose cells of operation include it. (Ex: a whiterun expansion or retexture pack or... etc) - That's a bit thicker, since you have to identify and debug any related mods, be they reworks, or even other mods.

 

3) OR it could even be a video card capabilities, or video card settings issue - consult your documentation.

[wfandrews]

Happens to me when I fast travel to Whiterun, although it is only the ground texture and some rock texture; which is why I always make a save before fast traveling to Whiterun. When this does occur, and it only happens rarely, I play for another fifteen or twenty minutes sometime more, save again and then fast travel to Whiterun and the textures are back. I really have no idea why this happens but as it rarely happens and it is fairly easy to correct I have never considered it a game breaking bug.

 

Maybe if I were more knowledgeable I could search out the cause of this, unfortunately I am not.