Broken Vanilla Meshes

[b0bulat0r]

I have multiple Vanilla Meshes that are just invisible/broken

(here is an example of the ones i'm aware of, 2 are completely invisible, one is half broken)

https://imgur.com/a/P0vcGEo

 

These are not modded items that were subject to the mesh update ages ago, they are vanilla meshes,

 

I've tried "verifying files"

doesn't fix it,

 

I don't have meshes unpacked either, but I thought if I got a friend to send me the meshes from THEIR computer that works, starfield would use them as a replacer/overwrite and they would work,

which if you look now, most of the meshes are in the "archive" but the Pear mesh has been modified today (to use the one my friend sent me)

 

And its STILL blank.

 

what's more I opened the meshes they sent me in nifscope and they were blank here.

 

I am super confused and would really like some help to fix these meshes,

 

Can anyone help please?

 

So confused. 

 

any help would be deeply appreciated.

 

[Citadel535]

Are you using the 57x nvidia drivers? I had tons of issues with them with crashing had to revert to 566.36 nvidia drivers. Gamers Nexus found it has to do with dual monitors somehow but I wound up rolling back anyway. I just had issues after patch Tuesday too had to repair my windows install for some reason.

Simplest thing is make sure you have rebooted your pc. This can fix a ton of issues just due to memory bugs.

If ongoing after that, I would suggest trying to delete the pipeline.cache file:

1. Go to in C:\Users\(YOUR USERNAME GOES HERE)\AppData\Local\Starfield (you can type in start > run > %localappdata% to get there then go to the Starfield folder too)
2. Delete the pipeline.cache file.
3. Run Starfield and let it rebuild the pipeline cache and see if it resolves.

I think this is more likely a file corruption due to the meshes showing modified though but try the pipeline.cache recreate since it's faster than a purge and validate.

If that doesn't work:

• Do a purge of all mods in Vortex (or mod organizer) and see if it still shows the messed up meshes.
• Go into the starfield folder and delete any mesh and texture folder that may be left.
• Without deploying, do a validate in Steam on both Starfield AND the Creation Kit.

Retest the meshes and see if that resolves. If that works, it means mod or mesh/texture change corrupted it and that should repair it. Note that re-deploying your mods may put the corrupt file down again. There are some older mods that used outdated meshes and there is a nifskope app that has to bulk update them. You can find the app on nexusmods and a tutorial on fixing the outdated meshes that is beyond what I can go over here. 

If still having trouble check if you have any custom 3d settings for Starfield or the creation kit defined in your graphics card application, if so try turning it off or to default to see if that fixes.

If you're still having trouble do a repair on windows and see if that helps:

Run command prompt as an administrator and type the following:

sfc /scannow

This is Microsoft's system file checker, it will check all system files hashes and repair them if they are bad/damaged.

It will tell you when it's done whether it either found no issues or repaired files. If it found bad files, reboot and rerun it to make sure it's clear.

I would also recommend to run Microsoft's Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool to repair your windows install. This basically checks all your files against Microsoft online to find damaged/corrupt files and repairs them:

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

If it finds anything wrong, I would let it run, then reboot, and try again to see if helps.

If you still have issues I would do a full check disk on your drive to make sure there isn't something wrong with the drive:

chkdsk C: /r /f

Replace C with whatever letter your drive actually is.

This can take a really long time (few hours on a large drive) and may even ask you to run the scan after a reboot if files are in use so I would recommend doing it overnight otherwise it will lock up your pc while it scans.

If it still doesn't work after that I am stumped.