SaikouTenshi Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 I'm having some trouble when playing skyrim on my PC. Every now and then i will notice that random things will be missing the textures completely. They become purple in color, they retain their shape but lose any detail what so ever. They just become a flat purple color. This happens to armor, animal heads that are mounted on the walls, sometimes trees, etc. After this happens i usually start doing quicksaves every minute or so because i know a crash is coming. I would attach a screenshot of the textures but i am not currently at home to do this. However, the texture losses doesnt always happen before the game crashes. It will do it randomly, either mid fight, or when it goes to a loading screen. There are no errors, its a silent CTD and happens instantly. I am running the game on Ultra high quality and i've checked the temps of the CPU and graphics card and everything looks fine. CPU usage is below 15% at all times and my RAM usage never goes over 50% so i dont think its a hardware issue. I want to also note that i do have the latest drivers for my devices. I'm not sure if the patch coming out soon is going to address the issue or not, but i didnt see anything in the notes about it fixing specific graphical issues and crashes for PC. ANy suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaikouTenshi Posted November 28, 2011 Author Share Posted November 28, 2011 I also have 0 mods and run this game straight from steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sythX Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 just thought Id say that Im having the same problem the only difference is that my RAM sky rockets after the second try from 1500MB to 4000MB used so Im just as confused as you if not more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom120 Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Don't know if it increases RAM usage or that but I have the same texture problem. Been hoping to get a solution or atleast an explanation on why it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Happens to a lot of people apparently. Seems random...saving and reloading fixes it. Happened to me once and my first reaction was "WTF Bethesda :rolleyes:" Hopefully it will be fixed in the patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darcykampe Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 (edited) I was getting CDT :wallbash: also. The fix for me was turning off (hardware) ambient occlusionin both nvidia control panel & nvidia inspector. Edited November 29, 2011 by darcykampe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sjakies123 Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 (edited) I have this bug as well, quite random really. No idea what causes it, but i usually have a CTD not long after.Since i started using the Skyrim4GB.exe it does happen much less and i hardly have ctd's anymore (maybe once in 4-6 hours, good reminder to get out of my chair and do something else)Also using the Nvidia beta drivers with ambient occlusion forced on atm which gives a small fps hit, but no noticeable extra troubles since i started using those. This is an example of what used to be the problem for me: Edited November 29, 2011 by Sjakies123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaikouTenshi Posted November 29, 2011 Author Share Posted November 29, 2011 I have this bug as well, quite random really. No idea what causes it, but i usually have a CTD not long after.Since i started using the Skyrim4GB.exe it does happen much less and i hardly have ctd's anymore (maybe once in 4-6 hours, good reminder to get out of my chair and do something else)Also using the Nvidia beta drivers with ambient occlusion forced on atm which gives a small fps hit, but no noticeable extra troubles since i started using those. This is an example of what used to be the problem for me: Thats exactly what my problem is. Glad you could provide the screenshot. I will have to try turning ambient occlusion on for a while and see how that goes. I did download the beta driver but i havent seen much of a difference in crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazakovich Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 I keep running into this as well, so I suppose it's a rather common bug. What I think it is, is that the game for some reason can't find the texture it needs, and reverts to that lovely no texture found-pink. And likewise, when I notice the game is starting to veer intro the Twilight Zone, I save and wait for the crash. It's irritating, but it's better than the crashes that comes unprovoked out of nowhere. Hopefully, since this seems like a rather widespread bug, Bethesda might adress this is tomorrow's patch. They've had plenty of time, after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaikouTenshi Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 exiting the game and loading it back up fixes the issue, for now. until they run a patch to fix this. I'm going to try some more testing with ambient occlusion when i get home and see if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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