Limey6587 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Earlier today I finally decided to allow steam to update skyrim from 1.2 to 1.3, in order to try out a mod which required the update.What a complete mistake that turned out to be >:(The first thing I noticed when loading the game was that all the textures I had installed no longer functioned properly. My toons face was flickering black, the world texture packs no longer showing up and when I pressed ESC everything turned green. Oh and Lag wow... The last time I saw a game stutter so bad was when I tried to run Oblivion on my old Pentium 1.2.After some searching I found out that the flickering issue was caused by Skyrim no longer supporting AMD Crossfire. (grrrr) Turned that off, but now I open the game and everything looks horrid. Everything has a fuzzy blocky low res look to it. I have tried re-installing my graphics driver and rolling back my graphics driver. Nothing works.Worst of all it is still choppy! The game looks horrible and it's un-playable. Does anyone have any idea what to do? My system specs are:- Intel i7 950 @ 3.07GHz- 12gb Ram (sorry I don't remember the frequency)- GPU 2 Radeon HD 6970's crossfired- Win7 64bit Sp1- (not sure what else may be relevant. Just ask me, I'll do my best to answer) I was using a widescreen fix for the menus so I could run it at 5760X1080. Untill now I had very few problems. It was running fairly smooth around 25-30Fps on ultra settings plus HD texture packs for just about everything I could replace.Sorry I don't have a screen-shot as I can barely navigate the menus on Low settings due to choppines. Any help would be very much appreciated.Cheers,Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lutine Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Roll back to 1.2.Steamapps\Skyrim>Properties>Previous Versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limey6587 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 That I'm afraid is a no go... :wallbash: I opened the properties > prev versions. But un-fortunatly there is nothing there.I'm bloody sad now. I do want to thank you Lutine for trying to help me though. Cheers,Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoSxorpio Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Rename the TESV.exe, Skyrim.esm and Update.esm (add ".bak" to the end of the names so you can roll back if its worse) and Verify Integrity of Local Files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limey6587 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 After much swearing and a half a pack of cigarettes later... :nuke: I noticed that not only were Skyrims textures dumbed down, every game I own looks like it's 10 years old. After un-installing my video drivers (then manually deleting them with divice manager). I seem to have gotten things working with other games I own.I must admit I am not keen to try running skyrim just yet. At least untill I have some idea how a steam patch can break a video card driver. Cheers,Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eltucu Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Dude, the 1.2 patch was very broken (that dragon issue, resistances not working at all, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limey6587 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 I never had the back-wards flying dragon issue. As for the resistances thing I haven't used that sort of kit (always went for stuff that made me cause more damamge than avoid it ;) ) Though I have no doubt that the 1.2 patch caused a lot of problems, I could at least use my crossfire on my vid cards without major graphical issues and could run the game on ultra with around 30fps in busy areas.Now with 1.3 I can't play the game at the lowest settings with better than 5-10 fps. CheersChris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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