Pixelated Textures!

[thecman]

Hey folks,

 

I had recently installed "SMIM" and when I launched Skyrim, a bunch of textures for flames, windows, and the ground became very pixelated and unclear. I can actually see right through the ground and see the mapping of the outdoor areas.

 

I've tried reinstalling other mods like "Visible Windows" and "HD Textures". I also tried deleting Skyrim and the entire Skyrim folder (under Steam) and reinstalled vanilla with the same issue.

 

Is there something I'm missing? Could this be related to the .ini file or something else?

 

I've included some screenshots for reference.

 

Help!

 

Thanks.

 

http://i.imgur.com/dxscx.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/nlH4R.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/t6WQl.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/4KNzI.jpg

[reapersintent]

I am having a very similar issue as well. Don't know whats causing it yet though.

[Reiyichi]

Download the latest Catalyst Driver Suite from AMD for your Radeon cards, then in the Catalyst Control Center, (after the drivers and everything have all downloaded and installed) set your card settings (in the 3D applications option under Gaming) to this...

Anti-Aliasing to Application controlled, Morphilogical filtering enabled and, not sure if it helps anything as AA is application controlled, but set Edge Detect to on as well, it shouldnt hurt anything

Anisotropic filtering application controlled as well

Tesselation application controlled as well

Texture filtering to High Quality with Surface Formatting Optimization enabled under Catalyst A.I.

Wait for Vertical Refresh to On unless specified by the application

AA mode to Adaptive Multi-Sampling

Triple Buffering Enabled

 

Save that as a New Application up at the top of the list and navigate to your Skyrim Folder in the window that pops up (C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim (if running Windows Vista/7) C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim (if it is a 64 bit Vista/7 system you are running) and I am not too sure as to where on XP, it may be the same as the 32 bit Vista/7 (the first location I posted) area, please correct me if I am wrong) find your TESV.exe application in that folder and save it as that and hit yes if it tells you to overwrite a saved profile.

 

Then in your Skyrim Launcher's options when you launch the game again, turn both AA and Anisotropic Filtering to off, then in advanced options (the button that says Advanced) turn FXAA on (this is a more performance friendly type of AA, it will mimic AA (which makes the game look better) without as much of a hit on Framerate) and set all the Graphics as high as you dare, e.g. my settings in the launcher are...

Water Settings, all 4 of those boxes are checked, to reflect pretty much everything, Shadow Settings are Ultra, Decal Quantity is Ultra, Texture Quality is High, and Radial Blur is Medium (Radial Blur is not really a Graphic setting that affects Graphics, you will see it when you get hit in combat, it is the Blur effect of your character getting hit, so setting that lower may help keep people from getting disoriented in fast paced, tough battles) Distant Object Detail is set to Ultra for me as well, (Under the View Distance tab) Object Fade is set to 12 as well as all the other options (minus Grass Fade which does not go that high (I have it set to 6) and Light fade, which can go higher than the other options, which max out at 15, (Minus Grass Fade which maxes out at about 7 or 8) Light Fade maxes out at about 25 (I have it set to 20), I can set these options that high cause my system can handle it,

System Specs: AMD Athalon II X2 240 2.80 GHz

RAM: 4.00 GB

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 6570

 

So, if your system matches or exceeds mine, then you could probably set your skyrim graphics as high as mine or even higher, if your system specs are lower, then set your game graphics lower.

[thecman]

Then in your Skyrim Launcher's options when you launch the game again, turn both AA and Anisotropic Filtering to off, then in advanced options (the button that says Advanced) turn FXAA on (this is a more performance friendly type of AA, it will mimic AA (which makes the game look better) without as much of a hit on Framerate) and set all the Graphics as high as you dare, e.g. my settings in the launcher are...

 

..... I feel like an idiot. I tried this and it fixed everything. I can't believe I didn't even think to try this first. So yes, turned off AA and AF, everything else is checked and set to high, just had to tick of FXAA.

 

Thanks, man. Sometimes I look too deeply without considering the simpler solutions first :facepalm:

 

I hope your issue is also resolved with this, reapersintent.

 

For what it's worth, here's my system info:

CPU: Core i7 2600K (OC'd to 4.5) on an Asus Sabertooth P67 MoBo

GPU: Single Radeon 6870 1GB

RAM: 8GB Mushkin Blackline

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

 

So yeah.. I high-end everything on Skyrim. Thanks again! :thumbsup:

[Reiyichi]

You're welcome, I had this same issue when I upgraded to my Radeon till I looked it up online and found out for myself that ATI cards have been having that problem since update 11.11, and that little tweak fixes a lot of the problems that they have with Skyrim...

[blove]

You should be able to leave AF on. With a 5870, 12.1, at 1920x1200 I run 0x AA 8x AF and FXAA on. Everything is maxed in the game settings but Shadows which I turn down to High.

[ModernEvilSlayer1470]

I have an integrated graphics card and I am having the same issue now. I have never had that issue before until I had steam update my game and verified the integrity of game cache. :(

[Project579]

first make sure skyrim is 100% vanilla: http://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:Make_Skyrim_Vanilla_Again