Skyrim Water Issues and Ice Flickering

[Prenihility]

I've had this problem for a long time. A long, long time. And thought it simply went away after loading new areas and whatnot. And I only realized now that it's because of certain lighting conditions. The issue was first water flickering. Which I believe I have now resolved by removing a very specific AA setting in the Nvidia Control Panel. Not the normal Antialiasing.

 

I thought the flickering water was back. But no! It's ICE! Perfect place; just west of Windstad Manor. East of Solitude. It only happens during low light conditions. Like early in the morning. The area/shape that holds water, usually just small little puddles is odd. Very blocky and strange. I use Purewaters.

 

The author of Purewaters is dead set and believes that either SLI or no VSync are the culprits for flickering water. At least in his mod. But I have flickering ice. And I think it's under A. certain lighting conditions and B. When it's RAINING. These two things combined are creating the problem. I could be wrong about the rain. But it adds that puddle/rainy effect on top of ice. You can't actually see any flickering in the first picture. But those are the conditions i'm talking about. And the second really shows the odd water shape and texture is strange.

 

I would post screenshots but the site has some sort of special needs for screenshots and I can't begin to guess what that would be.

 

LO:

 

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KS Hairdos - HDT.esp
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ForswornHAIR.esp
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MatchingSetFix.esp
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Unique Uniques.esp
CalienteVanillaArmorTweaks.esp
Dual Sheath Redux Patch.esp

 

 

 

[marmotte]

The water flickering is a problem that can't be resolved. You can have this problem whatever the FPS, whatever the water mod, whatever the Vsync, whatever your gpu.

No solutions I suppose.

[Prenihility]

The water flickering is a problem that can't be resolved. You can have this problem whatever the FPS, whatever the water mod, whatever the Vsync, whatever your gpu.

No solutions I suppose.

 

First time i've heard that. :confused:

 

I've seen many people successfully resolve the issue by simply applying Vsync. Or a 60 FPS cap. Some people like that 120+ Hz but it just doesn't fly with Skyrim. I've tried it myself but that particular solution just doesn't work for me. I can't think of what the other issues entail off-hand, but they're there.