MIssing textures

[candyfloss]

I've been noticing how much invisible walls and floors have been appearing while playing the game. It's pretty annoying especially when you're fighting someone and the floor keeps appearing and disappearing due to the camera angle. Here are some screen shots:

 

Missing texture on walls.

 

Missing texture on floor.

[ratch]

Whats your Video Card and are the Drivers Up to Date?

[candyfloss]

I've got ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series and my drivers are up to date. The longer I play, the more often this happens and I've never noticed this when I was playing this the first couple of days.

[DragonChester]

I use have that issue looong time when use play World of warcraft on older mech on crapy ATI Card. Turns out Wow slowly cooked the video card.

Every other game I use play back then never did that before. Was just after I upgrade to Burning Crusade lol. BC cooked it.

Since Skyrim is new, and not fully tweaked to run correctly on PC's. I'd suggest two things you can try.

But could be your card is getting old, slowly cooking its-self and/or not getting enough cooling..

Could also just graphic glitches.. Try some tweaks in files here for ATI/Nvidia (better Tweaked DirectX.dll for skyrim))

 

Question: Is your tower/case and/or video card seem be running warm.. If so.. May need give a cleaning. If hasn't been done in last 6 months. If been more then year+

yeah (it be worst if you your smoker/live in smoked house/home/ Etc))

 

1) Get canned air can.. There pretty cheep. Always hold the can up right, Never ever turn too much on side or hold upside down.

give your case/rig/Video card a few quick squirts and try blow out any dust..

Yeah that will meaning taking side cover off, Most towers are easy to removed as long you do not rush. Some older towers like to bite back LOL.

 

2) Make sure get the fans, memory chips, fans over GPU/ Cpu, and your PSX=Power supply. Short quick squirts..and don't do while mech hot/running. Give 10 mins cool down before you do this :P

 

Video cards do die after many years, Usually you start seeing strange pixals/missing pixals, esp during high end games that demand a lot on video card/memory.

Sorta like flicker specks on the screen, dots and or just random lost of color too.. But it should be doing all the time..And slowly get worst.

Id be fine but as soon I went into new world in BC, My poor old ATI fan would start grunting almost- try to speed up like just couldn't anymore lol

 

I had that happen to me. Found out later the fan on old ATI Radeon GPU fan started to go. Thank god my old case had more few fans on it..Because it

saved the card. I had go buy new GPU fan for it.. Got few more month out the car before it finally died, but it was slightly cooked lol.

(( but it was well known back then many older ATI Fan on there cards we're known to fail without warning.. )

[blazeadam]

I'm having the same problem with recently purchased 6950 that runs fine on all other games. Also passed furmark burn test never going above 70. Never used to happen the first couple of days either. It could be a problem with one of the patches.

[candyfloss]

@centaurchester: I don't think it's too do with running too warm because when it does my pc makes a horrible noise. Skyrim doesn't kill my pc like other games such as the Sims 3. I also clean my pc regularly so it's not the problem.

 

Could a mod like 4GB skyrim help?

[lordkiva]

i got same problem and i have while playing to long and it happens in inns a lot and i got a ATI HD 4200 radeon graphics card and is up to date cause i had to get computer fixed week before cause hard drive crashed and they sent computer back to HP to get fixed, idk why it does it i know if i see the purple textures or the black body texture thing i exit and restart and its fine but the missing ones are bugging me especially when in dungeons when whole hallways disappear and reappear. that and the missing flames and light beams is another problem.

[ArtemisEntreri187]

I get this issue on my ps3. I just save then restart the system. Clears it right up.

[DragonChester]

  On 11/25/2011 at 4:21 AM, lordkiva said:

i got same problem and i have while playing to long and it happens in inns a lot and i got a ATI HD 4200

radeon graphics card and is up to date cause i had to get computer fixed week before cause hard drive

crashed and they sent computer back to HP to get fixed, idk why it does it i know if i see the purple

textures or the black body texture thing i exit and restart and its fine but the missing ones are bugging me

especially when in dungeons when whole hallways disappear and reappear. that and the missing flames

and light beams is another problem.

 

Quick answer:

 

Problem: Ati 4200 Radeon displaying graphic glitchs/mis-colors issues

Reason: lack of dedicated Video memory

Solution: Check on Web see if others report similar issues with same video card.Could email ATI/AMD for temporary fix

Answer: Buy your self a Better video card that has 1GB or more memory, Stay away from ATI.

 

Your card info :

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Radeon-HD-4200.20493.0.html

 

Emailing/checking AMD site and you maybe able fine temporary fix, It very well may need be

addressed by ATI/AMD them self but even if you do find a solution, Your still using same cheep GPU hardware.

 

Your card is having Hardware/software issues, It doesn't have the proper memory/Shader and/or

programming within the card itself to able to play skyrim properly. That card does not have the Umph/power

to play Skyrim. Sorry, It is Low grade/cheep made video card that tossed into most basic pre-built

system/cheep laptops and or systems.. Its not Gaming GPU..

 

Buy yourself a PCI 1GB+ Express GPU card. They not cheep either. A cheep one may not run Skyrim much better

then what you have now.. I don't like ATI for this very fact, a lot there low-med end stuff is cheaply made.

Sorry ATI users.. not be rude, I've not had good luck with med grade ATI Products.. I'm sure there High-end

stuff kicks ass, but actually it was just posted somewhere on Steam forms.. Bethesda took some High end

ATI Cards and some High end Nvidia cards. and Nvidia GPU kick ATI rump.. but Skyrim was not tweaked for

PC.. Yet... maybe after 1 year or so after patches and what not.

 

======= Detail answer/Solution:

 

Ok I have looked up your video card to get more of idea what exactly we are dealing with. And I am

sorry to say Lordkiva, But that video card, that series is a very cheep, med-low grade video card.

Why because it does not even have its own dedicated memory, You need full dedicated memory to

play Skyrim and/or any other fairly new game in last 2-4 years. Even if your system had 4gb/ 8Gb

or even 16 GB main memory. Your video card can not handle the Graphics needed

to play a game like Skyrim, or even Oblivion because it does not have it's own memory..

 

Your card does not meet the Minimum.. Sorry.

 

Minimum System Requirements

 

* OS: 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)

* CPU: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor

* RAM: 2 GB

* HDD: 6 GB

* Graphics: 512 MB card

* Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible

* DirectX: Version 9.0c

* Internet for Steam activation

 

Note: The funny thing is Skyrim doesn't even take full capable of 64 bit system memory and Mult-core CPU,

Which I hope they fix soon.

Though. I can run Skyrim on Pentium D 3.0 Ghz/ 3gb Ram system w/ Nvidia 8800 GTS 320 MB Video card though lol.

on Med setting.

 

I have myself a:

 

Asus laptop- Win 7 64 bit

i7 1,7 boost to 2.9 Ghz CPU

4Gb Ram

ATI 5730 Radeon 1Gb Video ram,

and i7 Cpu that boost to 2.9 Ghz. Skyrim is just barley playable for me.

 

I'm wishing when I bought this laptop I was more careful with video card, Then again I have never

liked ATI card, In my last 15+ years of building, fixing, repairing computers for friends,teachers and even

internet tech installers . I always Tell everybody. DO NOT buy system with On-board video GPU.

Not unless you know you can upgrade later to a dedicated GPU video card ..

[DragonChester]

  On 11/24/2011 at 6:21 PM, candyfloss said:

@centaurchester: I don't think it's too do with running too warm because when it does my pc makes a horrible noise. Skyrim doesn't kill my pc like other games such as the Sims 3. I also clean my pc regularly so it's not the problem.

 

Could a mod like 4GB skyrim help?

 

@CandyFloss.

 

Your video card about same area as my video card.. Avg to not grate

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-4650.13883.0.html

 

Mine : http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-5730.23825.0.html

 

if your PC is making noise that is Never a good sign. Check the fans, Make sure nothing is blocking em.. Blow em out when its off..

That card is also on-board video card but at least it has video memory... Yah you could try using 4GB.exe patch from here..

 

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013

 

but I would be more worried about strange sounds coming from your computer, Get that looked into right away.

You sure its coming from within the computer and not your speakers?