Lugh1000 Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 (edited) I thought a mod caused this originally and posted a topic on this in that forum for mod troubleshooting, but this appears to be a more general problem. The problem is I downloaded mods right after updating after I got the game, so never tried magic vanilla. My system specs are 2Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 66 GHz 2.67 GHz8 GB of RAMOS is Windows 7 Professional on service pack 1Graphics card is a geforce gts 250. Skyrim: I'm updated from steam automatically to the most recent update. Mods: I am running Midas Spells mod and Simple Spell Scaling (it just switches the values of fortify magic between alchemy and enchanting). I also, in an attempt to fix it, downloaded and run ENBseries Patch 9, obviously it didn't fix it. I'd really appreciate any help. To describe the problem to be clearer, flames etc are invisible. Lightning bolts, Lightning Storm etc is invisible. Fireball is visible as a VERY small orb and the explosion is not visible on impact, so it's clear that the additional animation on it is not there. So I don't know what that pinpoints the problem file as, but if there's a replacement or a fix out there, I'd love to download it. This utterly ruins the spellcaster experience. What's worse, it ruins dragons, etc because they too lack animation when they breathe fire, cast spells, etc. Edited December 28, 2011 by Lugh1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekrafilia Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Return the game baseline. Remove all mods and ENBseries. Put graphics settings down to the minimum (that's not a great video card you got there anyway). If the problem still exists in vanilla mode then at least you know it's something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugh1000 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Return the game baseline. Remove all mods and ENBseries. Put graphics settings down to the minimum (that's not a great video card you got there anyway). If the problem still exists in vanilla mode then at least you know it's something else. Ok I'm going to do that, but is there a quick way to remove all the mods? It's all fairly entangled at this point when I start deleting things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekrafilia Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Return the game baseline. Remove all mods and ENBseries. Put graphics settings down to the minimum (that's not a great video card you got there anyway). If the problem still exists in vanilla mode then at least you know it's something else. Ok I'm going to do that, but is there a quick way to remove all the mods? It's all fairly entangled at this point when I start deleting things. I'd take a complete copy of everything in the Skyrim folder and below to another location first. If anything has an uninstaller use it.It gets rather messy with manually uninstalling. Best you look at the mod notes for each one on what remove (meshes, textures, animations, esp files etc) and where from. You might have to get Steam to rescan and update the installation incase something got deleted that shouldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugh1000 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Can I just uninstall Skyrim from the control panel to expedite the process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekrafilia Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Yep. Quicker and easier for sure and guaranteed vanilla install. I'd make sure that everything from the Skyrim folder and below is gone before installing again. Steam will then update to the latest patch, so you need to wait for that to complete once installed. Let us know how you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugh1000 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 (edited) Yep. Quicker and easier for sure and guaranteed vanilla install. I'd make sure that everything from the Skyrim folder and below is gone before installing again. Steam will then update to the latest patch, so you need to wait for that to complete once installed. Let us know how you go. I did all that, uninstalled totally, reinstalled and then set the settings to low (it automatically selected high) and still no spell animations. So what should I do now? So to be clear, vanilla is messed up. Edited December 28, 2011 by Lugh1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekrafilia Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Do you have the 512Mb or 1Gb version of the GTS 250? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugh1000 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Do you have the 512Mb or 1Gb version of the GTS 250? 1 GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekrafilia Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Hmm, head scratching time. Got latest NVidia drivers?Any issues with other games?If you set the game to High, are the effects more visible, or no change?Are you running anything else that might be having an effect on the video card or graphic output?Is your card overclocked?What is your PSU wattage?Is the power cable plugged into the video card and secure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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