Most elaborate bug ever! involving models with triangular holes an

[Artensir]

Hey

 

I'm having some serious problems with skyrim (obviously). It used to run perfectly, until this happened: whenever i move, lightsources seem to disappear and reappear depending on where i stand..., i didn't find any info on the web so i reinstalled my game trough steam... Suddenly all of the following: It culminates in the form of holes in EVERY model or texture, even in the skyrim logo on the menu. Also, when i load my save it looks normal for about 2 seconds before everything gets triangular holes in them. Then the shadows go apeshit, becoming two dimensional stripes on my screen. The mountains in the distance are distorted and there's a massive white stripe in the sky like you get on a tv with static. Also i can see very long rays of yellow, like you see when there aren't textures for a model, i think they are supposed to show 'godrays' or something? AND there are random blue boxes just like the rays but boxy...

I run windows Vista 32bit with a ATI Radeon HD 3600 series graphics card. Everything should be up to date.

I even reinstalled my latest driver (wich took forever because Catalyst Control Center sucks) in another attempt to fix these problems, but it didn't do anything...

Any help is welcome

 

Sincerely

 

 

 

 

[Georgiegril]

Have you tried rolling back your driver?

[Artensir]

Have you tried rolling back your driver?

How would i go about doing that?

[Georgiegril]

On Window 7, you go to Control Panal>Hardware and Sound> Device Manager>Display adapter

Right mouse click on your video card driver and then Left click Properties.

Click the rollback button.

 

Your videocard driver software may also have a way of doing this, but I have an NVidia card, so I don't know how you would go about doing that.

[hellstorm102]

you can try setting your AA (antianalizing) to off in the skyrim launcher

[VileTouch]

also, check that your video card is not overheating...and if it's the mobility radeon series then STOP playing skyrim or other taxing games if you're not planning to buy a new laptop REALLY soon.

[Tidus44]

I would think by looking at the pictures and the description, you are on the way to getting a new video card. That looks and sounds almost identical to when my NVIDIA card burned out at Christmas last year.

 

The game needs a ATI Radeon HD 4890 or higher video card as minimum, that 3600 is probably getting a bit warm if you are running graphics anything above the "low" setting.

 

ATI drivers installed by Catalyst do not always roll back as described by Georgiegril - but try that way first. I have an ATI and have to use Catalyst as well (argh!) and have had to roll back a driver to v12.1 due to the pixel bug with v12.2 and then again when v12.3 would not install properly. In both cases I had to delete Catalyst and the drivers through Control Panel, reboot to allow the standard VGA setting from Windows and then install the Catalyst and drivers again (back to v12.1). V12.4 seems to be working OK so if you have that version loaded, I wouldn't think its a driver problem.

[minithreat]

Any other advice aside from buying a new card? AA is off and I rolled my driver back, still nothing helping.

[Georgiegril]

Well I apologize because since I wrote that, I was educated on the major changes in driver updates for NVidia. Your problems may well be caused by the change in requirements for updates, of which I was until recently unaware. Please read the link and follow the uninstall/update directions exactly. I apologize for the rollback advice, until recently that was how it was done, but no longer. nvidia driver update new procedure

[minithreat]

I don't have nvidia, although it suggested uninstalling and then reinstalling, which I've done multiple times. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but to no avail. I have Windows 7 64bit with ATI Radeon HD 4200 series, and AMD catalyst which updated this afternoon.