StateofMind Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Playing Skyrim is hard. Can anyone tell me why my rocks (and a lot of other textures) look like crap? Might need to expand the images to see. http://i.imgur.com/AJKUAJul.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BN5xXvBl.jpg Is that normal? It's happening regardless of mods. I've tried all sorts of texture mods, disabling/enabling, redownloading, reordering. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Skyrim several times and each time I get different problems. http://i.imgur.com/Kennb57l.png http://i.imgur.com/quvlHOHl.png I also have this issue with my water, even with mods off (and a clean install of the game): http://i.imgur.com/uLfComC.jpg?1 Are there some common mistakes that I may be overlooking that might lead to everything being screwed up because I'm dumb? i5 4690kGTX 97016GB RAM500GB SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StateofMind Posted November 7, 2014 Author Share Posted November 7, 2014 Sorry for being vague but I don't even know what terms to use here, I literally just built my first PC and Skyrim is the first thing I've tried to do with it. Rocks and wood textures seem bugged out no matter if I play without mods or play with mods in any conceivable order. The weird water smearing thing is also present in any configuration. I've tried reinstalling the game (including deleting the entire Skyrim folder). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACAkutare Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 What graphics settings are you using on your system? System specs, perhaps? Are you using any replacer mods? These bits of information can help us try to figure out why your graphics aren't that impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StateofMind Posted November 7, 2014 Author Share Posted November 7, 2014 (edited) What graphics settings are you using on your system? System specs, perhaps? Are you using any replacer mods? These bits of information can help us try to figure out why your graphics aren't that impressive.Hey, thanks for the reply. The settings in Skyrim default to Ultra and the only thing I've fiddled with is turning AA off and on when I was trying ENB. I thought ENB may have been causing that water glitch (which is the first oddity I noticed), but I was wrong. Since then, I've been on ultra settings without any ENB. I've also tried playing with and without any mods. I've been using Mod Organizer, but I still manually removed mods and even deleted my entire Skyrim folder and re-installed the game through Steam. These problems persist regardless of mods. My specs are:CPU: i5 4690kRAM: 16GB 1600GPU: GTX970Samsung EVO 500GB SSD (Could SSD cause a problem?) I've done a lot of digging trying to figure out what's going on, and I read that 4GB VRAM caused issues in the past. The GTX970 does have 4GB, if that could still be causing issues. As for "system settings" I've tried going into the NVIDA control panel and giving everything over to the application for Skyrim (didn't help), and then reverted back to default. I even tried a third install after disabling user account control in Windows because I heard that can cause issues. Edited November 7, 2014 by StateofMind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saurusmaximus Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 This may be an obvious question, but are your graphics drivers up to date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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