What's this!? (Graphical Gltich I call 'black pannels of death')

[Nassens]

 

As title says, I encounter this things randomly. I've googled before posting but I've found only things about missaligned texture or sudden black textures of actual things (not sky pilars conquering the world). In those places they answered that it could be a lack of power in graphics cards. I'm using NVIDIA 1080 so that SHOULDN'T be the problem.

I've never seen them in interior cells. I rarely see them on random outside cells. I see them quite often around Diamond City. They happen A LOT inside Diamond City.

They don't happend consistently but once they appear they are persistant until game reboot. What I mean with that is that if I close the game then reopen it in a save where I am already in front of one of them, it is gone. It might never occur again in the same location even (or do so), but until I close the game, even if I change cells or go interior-exterior, they will still be in the exact same places.

I've tryed waiting in front of one of them at intervals checking if time of day or weather affected them somehow (they don't). Yet just once in my life I left Diamond City with one of them inside, did some playin' and quests and after coming back it was not there anymore (I mean this happened in the same game session).

Turning on and off the ENB does nothing to them. As you can see in the images periphereal vision makes them go away, but the moment you look barely straight to their position they reappear (btw: I've noticed lots of items that vanish in periphereal vision while some others do not, does this have any explanation or fix?).

I've tryed a bit randomly uninstalling some texture mods I use, but since I cannot force the bug to happend (it just kicks in whenever it wants) troubleshooting it that way without even a clue that it could be a texture mod the culprit at all seems like a hell to me.

Thanks to anybody that can bring some light to this darkness' invasion :smile:

[gromulos]

walk up to the pillar and open the console, click it, the ID number the game gives you will tell you what mod it is from based on your load order

 

also you can try de-activating archive invalidation in NMM and then re-activating it, i know that fixes textures with body mods not displaying properly

[Nassens]

Just tryed both ideas, thank you, but none of them worked. Pilars doesn't have specific ID. I think I in fact click things trough them. Anyway, if it where a texture mod, chances are they wouldn't be using an esp slot... De-activating/Re-activating did nothing either :/

 

They behavie really weird when I get close, like if they where composed of various pannels some of which appear some of which disappear depending on the direction I look.

[gromulos]

ok try this

 

see if you can somehow manage to click on one of them and get an ID number

 

if you can use this in the exact order i have it

disable

enter

markfordelete

enter

close console

save

quit game

reload game and save and check it

 

if you can't click them or if it doesn't remove them from your game like it should then it's definitely your graphics card

[Nassens]

Going to bed now, tomorrow I'll check it, but... two questions:

 

If I do as you state, since the problem happens whenever it wants wherever it wants, and after reloading they usually disappear and randomly reappear later in other places... you mean that I should not see any more pilars ever or just that one I pointed the first time, because usually after quiting the game I wouldn't see it anyway?

 

Second, I atempted to click on them before, usually clicking around the screen area I got a reference starting with "00" but since some times depending where I clicked reference changed I guessed that what I was actually clicking was what it were behind the pannel...

 

As I say, tomorrow I'll try, just allow me to doubt it beeing the graph card, I am more than confident that it works great with other intensive games (and with this one, since in the past I played it with no problems), that's why I'm trying to narrow to a mod or something which textures might be... somewhat broken? Truth is I don't know a bit of what it even is, so...

[Nassens]

I insisted a lot but defentevetly when I'm in front of one of those pannels what I actually click is what it is behind it.

Edited August 17, 2018 by Nassens

[gromulos]

i've never seen anything like that in any of my play throughs or in anyone elses game, so i''d have to take a guess and say it's your graphics card doing it, maybe turn all the settings for your graphics card down one notch and see if it still happens?

Edited August 17, 2018 by gromulos

[Nassens]

Gaming session for today is over, I'll do as you state tomorrow, go down graphics to high instead of ultra... but... I'd be surprised if it works

[gromulos]

Gaming session for today is over, I'll do as you state tomorrow, go down graphics to high instead of ultra... but... I'd be surprised if it works

 

when I said ALL, i also meant the resolution too like if you're playing @1680X1024, drop it down to the next lower resolution

[Nassens]

Needed to do a long testing since I said the pilars only appear when they want to, but they are still present even after lowering graphics.

 

Thanks a lot for your help Gromulos, I don't want to appear as if I don't apreciate. I hope we manage to find what's causing it...

 

For now between some random reads around I'm suspecting of a texture of something probably changed by a mod that behaves weird with lighting... if only I could force them to appear to do some testing...