Black body texture after a while of playing. (high end pc)

[stehens]

Load body overlays like enhanced blood textures and such after the body mods. I put the enhanced character menu plugins ahead of bloody facials and enhanced blood textures in my load order and the darkness went away.

PS

I now know the black body bug is caused by the body texture file. I had a 50mb uncompressed file with no mip maps. I used gimp with the dds plugin and exported the texture file femalebody_1.dds with dxt1 compression and generated mip maps and now the file in 11mb and looks the same in game. No blackness yet either.

Edited August 24, 2017 by stehens

[Elaura]

Just to add a little info to this issue:

NVIDIA GeForce 960

Windows 10 Home, 64-bit

Skyrim (Not SSE)

UUNP-Special bodies

I used Texblend on UNP Mature Skin textures

Everything was fine at High Graphics settings

When I set my preset to medium, that's when I got the black diamond skin glitch, only on females using the Mature skins.

I also use Bijinn's and none of the females in his pack that had bodies were affected.

Things I tried:

I ran Optimizer Textures (Ordenador) http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12801/ on the three texture files generated by Texblend using default settings.

After loading my savegame, I still had the black glitch, but when I pressed F4 it went away.

For me, this problem was unique to the textures generated by Texblend and using the Medium graphics setting preset.

Hope this info helps if anyone wants to update documentation.

[chris270613]

 

 

 

It happens when you run out of video ram. Yeah you got something sucking up that 4gb vram you got there.

Did you even read the whole info I gave? It is not problem with my vram when my whole pc is using max 2gb out of 4gb. http://i.imgur.com/PccTF.jpg This is what the problem looks like close up. It fades away a bit and when I look from far away it is completely black. I might have fixed the problem (need to test first) I tweaked the config.xml file from the unp body blender mod. The author of this mod gave instructions how to fix this problem if you get black head/body.

PS. next time read the whole thread before giving advices.

 

 

 

 

In your post you said your RAM gets under 2GB. Not your VRAM. They are two different things entirely.

 

From the CBBE author:

 

Q: Why am I getting black body textures after playing for a while?

A1: The longer you play, the more RAM/VRAM gets used up. After a while of playing, especially if you use higher-res textures such as CBBE, there isn't enough RAM/VRAM to load the textures. This was a very common issue at the beginning of Skyrim modding, before the 4GB mod and BethSoft's LAA patch. It is recommended you have a decent video card and more than 4GB RAM to help prevent this from happening. If you can't, then simply restarting Skyrim should solve the issues for a while. You can also go into an interior cell, open the console, and enter 'pcb' to purge cell buffers and free up memory.

A2: The body textures weren't saved with mipmaps originally, which can cause the body textures to go black. You can fix this by downloading and installing the 'mip maps' file for your body mod, found in the optional downloads.

You said you have UNP and Women of Skyrim texture pack but they're not listed in your load order. Does this mean you have excluded some mods in that list?

 

"vram usage at highest was 1900-2000mb", "RAM usage: at highest was around 3600-3700mb. At idling my ram is 2,5 with steam,origin, gputweak and mozilla firefox on and without those programs it gets under 2gb." there you go.

UNP and Women of Skyrim doesn't have plugins. They only contain meshes and textures.

This thing might interest too. I noticed the body textures appeared normally after the game loaded new area. Here is a good example: I was doing this mission where I had to go to a cave where ofcourse I died first and when I loaded save again the body had turned black, so I just continued playing even with that problem, then I finished the mission and I headed back to the cave entrence. The load screen appeared, I waited and when the game continued my characters body had turned back to normal. No black textures at all. So I thought my tweaking with the body blender config.xml had worked (the mod author said to do certain tweaks to the config if you get black body/head textures) and I fast travelled back to Whiterun and when I was there and I checked again if anything had happened to the body texture and yet again it had turned black.

 

http://i.imgur.com/PccTF.jpg (I didn't took this picture) This is similar problem I have, but for me the black body texture doesn't dissapear that much, but still when I zoom my character very close from some parts the black texture dissapears a little bit like in the photo.

Am Watching this with Interest,as I have just Noticed these Problems after Installing a Mod..All Characters (Females) have Either Burnt Body Textures or What Looks like Black Blotchy Skin..Even after Uninstalling the MOD everything is the Same..In the Past when this has Occured (can Never Spell this Correctly),I have Rectified it by Uninstalling then Reinstalling the "Fair Skin" MOD,which I shall now do..Never Entered my Head that it Could be Caused by Video Ram of Which I have 8GB (RX 480)..Will Look at Fair Skin MOD Again as it Always Works with MY Game and Assume it will MIGHT Help Others....