Textures go black then ctd.

[eleventyhundred3]

when i am walking around skyrim, it will ctd or faces and textures turn black. when in whiterun, it is the worst because all textures turn black and then it ctds, however anywhere else textures just turn black, however a ctd might take some more time. Any help for this?

[TeofaTsavo]

Black faces are a sign you are pushing your vram limit. Generally texture size.

 

I've noticed some fairly recent mods that go overboard on this. I recently downloaded a 3 piece armor set that has 16k textures on all 3 pieces. Doesn't take many of these to start causing issues. I see fewer authors including even a 2k texture option.

 

There are some very high Rez Body texture sets just for Screen Archers. Really pretty, but designed for screenshots, not for general playing.

 

Some systems will have trouble running things like 4k environment retextures. Personally I would check my mod list for larger texture sizes/resolution.

 

I used a weaps replacer mod for a bit that slipped a 16k sword into the leveled lists. Not good, Not needed.

Edited July 9, 2017 by TeofaTsavo

[eleventyhundred3]

so beyond skyrim: bruma is one of the newest, biggest mods and i have it, do you think that might be the problem?

I will try that the report back.

Edited July 9, 2017 by eleventyhundred3

[eleventyhundred3]

yeah that did not work.

[eleventyhundred3]

ok i deleted a bunch of mods and stuff, now it crashes after some more time, but now i go into the bannered mare and it ctds.

[eleventyhundred3]

OK so, now i do not ctd! however 1 more issue. peoples faces are turning black randomly sometimes and it is very annoying. Steam had a patch to allow like 4 gigs of vram before a ctd or any issues, however i have 12 gigs of ram and i want to allow 6 or 8 gigs. is that possible?

edit: yea i still ctd, and black textures. the only problem is memory, i am using enboost, however i do not know how to increase memory usage allowance. help still?

Edited July 10, 2017 by eleventyhundred3