Silverforte Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 (edited) I was playing Skyrim for a while without updating. Everything was fine (texture-wise) until I updated the game all the way. Now, up to date, terrain textures pop in as I travel. I'll be running along a road and the terrain will appear muddy, like Nintendo 64 muddy, and then as I walk over it (even takes a few seconds sometimes) the terrain textures will update to their normal quality. It's annoying, distracting and I don't even use texture mods. This only started happening after I updated my game. I have all my settings like they were before, as well. Can anyone help me? I couldn't find a decent video, this is as close as I could come Edited May 1, 2012 by Silverforte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 That looks to be a graphic settings issue. What video card to you have? Video Ram? Have you done anything with your Skyrim pref.ini file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 (edited) Doops...Also, could be something with your basic game interface settings-- the screen you can get to if you hit esc in game and then choose "setttings".... it will bring up things like grass fade, actor fade, etc. and has a slider bar. If these are all the way to the right, it causes things to be loaded when you are basically on top of them, and might cause that effect. Also if you have them all the way to the right but your graphics card is not equipped to handle that, you could get some similar effects. Anyway, that is much easier to check first than playing with the prefs.ini. Sorry shoulda mentioned it first. Edited May 1, 2012 by Georgiegril Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverforte Posted May 1, 2012 Author Share Posted May 1, 2012 It can't be my video card because it was fine before the patch. I also get pretty great frames even in Whiterun (aside from the micro stuttering that everyone has). I'm going to go play with my sliders and see if that helps. Thanks for your assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverforte Posted May 1, 2012 Author Share Posted May 1, 2012 It didn't help. This has to be because of the updates. Wasn't there some change to the way textures are loaded in one of them? I changed all the sliders around and got no results even in FPS. I can't get it to stop and it's discouraging me from playing at all. Maybe I ought to just revert back to vanilla Skyrim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fms1 Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 (edited) The change was for how bsa.'s, loose files, and bsa.'s with an esp. "activator" were being loaded. At some point they changed it to where the "activator" bsa.'s would load after loose files, but they fixed it because of all the flack they received from it, back to loose files loading last. EDIT: The "activator" refers to a blank esp. with the same name of the bsa., just to force loading it without changing the ini. setting to load it. Edited May 1, 2012 by fms1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 My game was also fine before the 1.5. Then it went haywire. I ended up reloading steam and skyrim and starting a new game. (this might have been excessive but I got impatient....) Even so I ended up changing some of my settings (skyrim pref.ini) that I didn't have to mess with before, and also adjust some of my graphics card settings. I didn't mean to imply that your graphics card was to blame, but rather that changing some settings might be the solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverforte Posted May 1, 2012 Author Share Posted May 1, 2012 I understand. There has to be a fix for this, somehow somewhere. I would hate to have to reinstall and play vanilla, that sh*t was buggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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