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

[Deleted3082751User]

it looks like some type of artifact, what are both your CPU and GPU Temperatures when you get these pillers appearing ?

 

and is your GPU overclocked ?

 

i used to get something very similar to this appear in Skyrim back when i used to play it on my old aftermarket overclocked GPU, turns out the clocks were unstable. setting my gpu back to factory default clocks fixed the issue permanently (thats both Core Clock and Memory Clocks)

Edited August 19, 2018 by Guest

[Nassens]

Ok, since I think I follow your way of thinking I tryed to stress computer a bit.

My CPU is a i7-6700K. Despite beeing from the K series I didn't overclock it. GPU is NVIDIA GTX 1080. Not overclocked either.

I closed windows and shut the door to let my room become an oven (spanish summer, ya know). I opened Minecraft and exploted a glitch so that the character keeps doing things even after changing windows forcing computer to keep doing calculations, full render distance with shaders. I opened JAVA and programmed one file that is continously beeing written on and erased so that Hard Drive (and a bit of CPU) never rest in a 2nd plane. Then jumped in Fallout and have tryed to do a normal gameplay messing around with things for 2 hours. Haven't been "lucky" enough to get pilars yet but I'm sweating to much already, time to turn on air cooler xD

Acording to my computer thermometers in this conditions, ambient temperature is 33ºC, CPU Temperature is 77ºC, GPU temperature is 80ºC (and the max they've reached for this whole time according to historic is 81 and 83 respectively).

 

Once I see a pilar I'll update temperature recordings, I'm letting my drivers monitor it on a second plane to check it later, but at least I see I don't have a general overheating problem, still need to check if there it happens any peak anytime... (and if it is related).

Edited August 19, 2018 by Nassens

[gromulos]

i think I MAY have found the culprit :D

 

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/296857/why-does-fallout-4-load-with-broken-textures

 

read the fix below the pic

[Nassens]

Thanks Gromulos!!

 

I crossed myself with that page more than a week ago investigating the problem and forgot about it. At that time Uninstalling and Reinstalling graph drivers seemed a bit extreme to me.. Since I was not sure if our issues were the same because I didn't experienced rainbow textures nor the rest of issues that guy had... (and neither do have an integrated Intel GPU, just my NVIDIA's). And last time I theorically uninstalled and reinstalled drivers *manually* did a mess and had to restore my PC to a previous state and later do hard googling in order to get GPU to self update again...

 

But... in fact I remember what I did wrong that time so... ok... I'll try to reinstall everything. Wish me good luck, I need it.

Edited August 19, 2018 by Nassens

[gromulos]

I don't think you need to reinstall anything, just do the tweak to the INI that guy talked about, below

 

Go to Fallout4Pref.ini

Under [Display] change the following to exactly this: iVolumetricLightingQuality=0 bVolumetricLightingEnable=0

After you change them both to 0, save the file.

Then go to the properties and make it read only. If you do not change it to "Read Only" Fallout will automatically switch this setting back.

Launch Fallout and enjoy it Rainbow free.

The problem is located with the Shadow Shaders in the game, these 2 settings were introduced for AMD GPUs because NVIDIA had this setting built in. After 1.3 for some reason it broke and the God Rays break the shadow shader for some reason. Its much more complicated than this, but I say this just to make a long story short.

 

Specially sine you're using a NON AMD GPU

Edited August 19, 2018 by gromulos

[Nassens]

"Whenever I play Fallout 4, the character starts with square rainbow colored skin." That fix you say is for that.

 

"There is also severe asset glitching making it impossible to see anything in-game and leaving me feeling ill." That is the common problem we both seem to have... though his seems a bit different to mine, both in where those pannels appear and that in my case they are not usual at all in his they were permanent.

 

I'm midtrhough reinstalling everything...

[gromulos]

just make sure you make that edit to the INI, there is aboslutely no sense in having a setting for an AMD video card when your not using one lol

[Nassens]

Did reinstallation and changed the setting above, have been playing for 4 hours without issues but... you'll know more as time goes on

[Nassens]

'm answering just to say that after one week playing those artifacts doesn't seem to have reapeared so it seems one or both of the solutions above seem to have worked :)

[NunoMG77]

Same thing happens to me. i saw this Shadow Wall in Jamaica Plains for the first time While Sniping all the ferals from the highway.

Second time it happened at the same place while i was looking towards the diner from where the workshop is. one big triangular shadow upwards and one towards the highway , parallel to the ground.

i've got some problems with my settlement mods so i thought that was the problem, i did not care much, i'm just testing for a real playthrough.

Curiosity came again when i noticed one big shadow covering me, looked around and there it was again, near C.I.T. ruins coming from where the mirelurks are hidden.

It comes with or without workshop enabled and now in various places.

Any chance of confronting loadorders?

Some pics:

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Edited September 5, 2018 by NunoMG77