Shapes in the Leaves

[Roofie]

So, I haven't played Skyrim in a while. Maybe about a month? Busy life and all that, so when I come back I start up steam let it update, catch up with any mods I can be bothered to keep and start up the game.

 

Make a new Char, do Helgen, all that jazz. Well, it's not until out in the countryside that I notice; strange things are afoot in the circle-K. Whenever I move, this weird background image shows up on top of all the foliage. It's like lines and circles, in some places it's like a wood texture; I think it's meant to be part of the shadows. The thing is, it NEVER goes away unless I am stood still. When I run, ride a horse, move my char simply sideways with the mouse, this peculiar background mess appears to s*** all over my screen. It drives my eyes insane. It IS affected by the shadow settings in the launch option, if I set it to Ultra I can see it on everything all the time, on high it is smaller, more distant, but still present.

 

I would get a screenshot, but the game makes itself stationary to take it, so the images aren't there, and I can't run and quickly alt-tab print screen to get it cos the moment my char is STILL it stops.

 

Is this an issue that was arisen with a new patch? I removed all my mods and started again after getting the official dlc texture pack (mostly out of curiosity) and have not installed a single 'texture' related one (bar armor and better skin/face things) since, to see if it was one of those. It clearly is not, as it is still there.

 

Is there a way to fix this, without just turning my shadows off?

 

I really would love to be able to play my beautiful skyrim once more, without breaking my eyeballs, so any help would be MUCH appreciated.

 

Roofs

[Georgiegril]

It's hard to tell without more info and a screenshot (know that's not possible...are you any good at posting video?)

 

Still if I were to hazard a wild guess, based on the fact that you say you haven't played in a while, I would imagine it was an update that either you need or need to roll back. I've noticed AMD and ATI graphics cards users have had some issues. If you have either of those, you may want to go to their website to update...or try rolling back if you just updated before playing this time.

 

If you have NVidia, they have an awesome guide to tweaking and also optimal specs for more recent cards. Google GeForce Skyrim and that should take you to it.

[Roofie]

are you any good at posting video?

 

I'm afraid I am not :( Otherwise, I would have provided it. All I can say is, its like an embossed like texture that shows in a pattern underneath all the foliage in game.

 

As it stands, I checked my nVidia (gtx 460) card settings directly and it suggested I put my shadows to medium, which I have, and now the shapes are vaguely more ignorable, though still very present. I will try rolling back my drivers for it, though, and see if that helps at all, because I did update them recently along with the game.

 

The Geforce information you recommended basically suggested the set up I was already using (bar medium shadows), so it wasn't awfully useful for me, but thank you.

[Georgiegril]

It sounds like you went to the optimisation page only. That is just the starting point.

There are 20 different sections, including graphics software and pref.ini tweaks. Geforce tweak guide

I really don't work for NVidia, I just find the guide to have improved my experience like 200 percent. But it may not help your specific problem.

 

Here is a nexus thread that may be the same problem as yours. Looks like it offers a few things to try.

nexus link

[Roofie]

Here is a nexus thread that may be the same problem as yours. Looks like it offers a few things to try.

nexus link

 

That thread was exceptionally helpful! Thank you! I've managed to fix it now. :)

[Georgiegril]

Glad it worked! Thanks for letting me know!