Objects keep fading (LOTS of pictures)

[tinymight]

Ok, so I'm walking down Whiterun streets and I see these guards who decided to wear transparent helmets:

 

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5439/screenshot7bp.png

 

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6055/screenshot9b.png

 

Probably just trying to start a new fad or something.

 

But then I notice it affects the ground; if you are astute enough, you will notice that these pictures portray the same plot of ground from two different angles, taken a few seconds apart:

 

This one looks alright:

 

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/6774/screenshot11q.png

 

And this one doesn't:

 

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/9006/screenshot10so.png

 

That ground-patch-thing is happening all over Whiterun streets; it's so annoying!

But it doesn't end there; I hope that it might be something to do with a buggy load, so I re-load the game.

This just tells you how random and buggy it is: it seems to have passed and then I enter Dragonsreach.

 

This one seems OK:

 

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7250/screenshot14t.png

 

And when I move about a foot backwards, things are ... transparent. Including the guard's shield and Lydia's armour:

 

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/1614/screenshot13ia.png

 

NPC's also go fully transparent when at the right angle, but I couldn't get a screenshot because the ones it happens to move around a lot.

 

Also, it seems like it's related, so I'll post it here; patches of different types of snow covering streets in Winterhold:

 

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/2761/screenshot6l.png

 

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1381/screenshot5ort.png

 

http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/1492/screenshot4m.png

 

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/8739/screenshot3zw.png

 

I've disabled and re-enabled all my mods to make sure it's not to do with them. It doesn't seem to be. I also messed with my skyrimprefs.ini file a bit, but deleting anything I added or adding anything I didn't have does not fix these issues! Please help; I want Skyrim to look beautiful again!

[Rennn]

Try disabling transparency antialiasing, both in the Skyrimprefs.ini and in your video card. If that fixes it, you can try different combinations of AA and settle on one where the bug doesn't happen.

You could also try enabling or disabling FXAA, whichever you have it on now. Bugs with invisible/translucent things almost always seem to be related to antialiasing in Skyrim.

[tinymight]

bTransparencyMultisampling=0

 

But how do you disable transparency antialiasing in CCC for a AMD video card? I looked through the CCC and couldn't find anything about transparency...

 

I've also never used FXAA, and I don't see how it will help, but I will try it if I can't figure out what else is wrong.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

EDIT: Fixed! Thank you for your advice, and I figured out that enabling adaptive sampling as the AA mode was the problem. Back to multi-sampling ;o

Edited February 28, 2012 by tinymight