lebert Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) Hi, I just got Skyrim and I was playing it fine in high settings without any update. I decided to go ahead and install the last update (1.6), to get all the fixes and improvements. Suddently, now everything looks worse, because for some reason now the textures are like messed up, showing like big pixels all over the place that make it look really bad. I've tried updating my graphic card's driver (nvidia GeForce 550M), disabling the Antialisaing both in the game option and the nvidia control panel, changing the visual settings to lower qualities, etc. I don't now what else to try! I don't have any mod installed, and I run the game in a Sony Vaio with 8GB RAM, the mentioned GeForce 550M, i7 2.0 GHz quad processor... Is it possible that the update is somehow messed up? It all worked fine before updating, I haven't changed anything else. Any ideas would be much appreciated! EDIT: I don't know if this may help, but just in case: the problem I explain above happened right outside the dungeon were you get the Golden Claw (don't remember the name). Once I went into the dungeon, evrything seemed fine again. However, when finishing the dungeon and getting back to Skyrim, I can see that all the trees are sort of transparent, I can see a little bit through them... what the heck is going on? Edited July 10, 2012 by lebert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 If you updated your driver the old fashioned way (through the Windows interface) then you probably do not have correctly installed drivers. This can cause all kinds of problems, including your drivers turning up to maximum clocks, incorrect temperature readings/settings things that can eventually kill your card. NVidia has changed the driver install procedure, but the bury this in the readme of the driver file, its hard to find even if you go to the NVidia website for your drivers. The first thing I would do it go here and read the whole thing through, then follow the instructions exactly. This takes a little time, but it can save you hundreds of dollars for a new card, and also hours of frustration from incorrect driver installation. Its from the EVGA website, but it is not specific to EVGA-manuafctured NVidia cards. Then, if the problem is not solved, I would follow bbens troubleshooting guide,here. Hope this helps, good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lebert Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 If you updated your driver the old fashioned way (through the Windows interface) then you probably do not have correctly installed drivers. This can cause all kinds of problems, including your drivers turning up to maximum clocks, incorrect temperature readings/settings things that can eventually kill your card. NVidia has changed the driver install procedure, but the bury this in the readme of the driver file, its hard to find even if you go to the NVidia website for your drivers. The first thing I would do it go here and read the whole thing through, then follow the instructions exactly. This takes a little time, but it can save you hundreds of dollars for a new card, and also hours of frustration from incorrect driver installation. Its from the EVGA website, but it is not specific to EVGA-manuafctured NVidia cards. Then, if the problem is not solved, I would follow bbens troubleshooting guide,here. Hope this helps, good luck. Thank you very much for your reply, I'll try those things and hopefully I'll get a solution. On a side note, I didn't update my driver, what I updated was Skyrim itself. I had updated the driver when I started playing Skyrim, because it wasn't the last version and the game crashed a few times. After updating my driver everything went fine, no weird texture problems. It was after updating Skyrim when I started to see this problems... It doesn't make a lot of sense, I know, but that's what happened. I've read something about the new updates of Skyrim bringing some HD textures, is there a way to switch between the "old" ones and then new ones? Maybe the new textures are causing the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Well, every patch has caused issues for me. The main graphics settings (the one that comes up on the first Skyrim menu) also got reset for me on the patch. It toggled the FXAA to on, changed basic resolution, sliders, etc. The patch also caused my some parts of my .ini files to reset to default, and deleted lines I had added. If you are sure you have a proper install of your drivers, then it could be that the patch reset some values, and that is causing the issue. Have you checked your pref.ini and ini files to make sure they look how you want them? Also maybe check your driver settings through NVidia Inspector? (Just a reminder that if you go into te main settings area, it will reset some of your ini values, so you may want to do the Skyrim menu settings check first and then your ini files and driver card settings.) Other thoughts... Have you tried running something like Evga precision or Afterburner or CPU-Z to monitor how your drivers are running in game? Also, are you using any mods that affect lights/textures? You might try removing them completely to see if that makes any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lebert Posted July 12, 2012 Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 I followed the tutorial to reinstall the graphic card drivers, and here's the thing: it seems that now the transparency problem in trees is gone, but the weird textures near the golden claw dungeon look still bad. However, that seems to be the only location this is happening, I've been going to different places and I don't see any other problems with textures. I've read that in one of the patches Bethesda included new HD textures, and I've also read that some of those "new" textures are messed up (there's actually a mod to fix that), so I'm starting to think that the problem is related to that as well. I'm going to try that mod and go back to that location and see if that changes anything. Also, as a curiosity, after reinstalling the drivers (which by the way were the same version I already had) following the link you provided, the test that Skyrim performs to give you the recommended visual settigns for your hardware configuration resulted in higher settings than what it used to give me before reinstalling those same drivers, so definitely that process helped in some way. I've never used any of those programs you mention to monitor my drivers, should I do that? What kind of information do they give? Well thank you very much for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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