Missing Water

[blueparrot1966]

I've got a lot of mods going, and everything seemed fine for many hours of game play. But when I got to The Reach, I found large chunks of the river graphics were missing. The sound effects, fish, and 'no melee in the water' is in effect, it appears to be just a matter of missing graphics.

I've combed through the threads I could find going back years, and I haven't found a definitive fix for this. Others have reported similar problems, but they either went unresolved or the fixes listed didn't work for me.

I've used Vortex, Loot, and SSEEdit as well as I'm able to root out conflicts or problems. I've tinkered with the load order and turned off individual mods that might be causing the problem, such as Static Mesh Improvement Mod, Realistic Water 2, or Skyrim HD. I'm using ENB, and turned off anti aliasing, as I've heard it conflicts with it. Anisotropic filtering also supposedly conflicts, but the option has been removed from the loader for SE as far as I can tell.

I used LOOT and SSEEdit Quickautoclean in conjunction to clear up conflicts. Didn't hurt anything as far as I could tell, but didn't help either. One thread talked about using xEdit (now SSEEdit) to scan the affected cell(s) and identify conflicts between mods that way. But when I use the console to ID them, I get a different hexadecimal number everywhere I click. Frankly, I don't have the chops to really dive into SSEEdit and get under the hood manually to find the problem.

My mod load order is below. Anyone have any (constructive) suggestions?

Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
Dawnguard.esm
HearthFires.esm
Dragonborn.esm
Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch.esp
BSAssets.esm
BSHeartland.esm
BS_DLC_patch.esp
3DNPC.esp
LegacyoftheDragonborn.esm
ApachiiHair.esm
Falskaar.esm
Wyrmstooth.esp
SMIM-SE-Merged-All.esp
Qw_BeyondSkyrimBruma_USSEP Hotfix Patch.esp
SkyUI_SE.esp
Cutting Room Floor.esp
Book Covers Skyrim.esp
Obsidian Weathers.esp
Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp
Cloaks.esp
Cloaks - Dawnguard.esp
Qw_CloaksOfSkyrim_CRF Patch.esp
Cloaks - USSEP Patch.esp
BetterQuestObjectives.esp
BetterQuestObjectives - BCS Patch.esp
BetterQuestObjectives-CRFPatch.esp
BetterQuestObjectives-DBForevertoMisc.esp
Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp
Qw_BookCoversSkyrim_CRF Patch.esp
Qw_3DNPC_USSEP Patch.esp
DBM_CRF_Patch.esp
Relationship Dialogue Overhaul.esp
Castle Volkihar Rebuilt.esp
CollegeOfWinterholdImmersive.esp
MagicalCollegeofWinterhold.esp
goodbrother.esp
Fort(ified) Dawnguard.esp
Wintersun - Faiths of Skyrim.esp
Run For Your Lives.esp
Inigo.esp
Dawnguard Sentries SE.esp
Immersive Patrols II.esp
DawnguardArsenal.esp
Ars Metallica.esp
Qw_ArsMetallica_SMIM_MergedAll Patch.esp
DiverseDragonsCollectionSE.esp
icepenguinworldmapclassic.esp
BarenziahQuestMarkers.esp
Qw_BarenziahQuestMarkers_USSEP Patch.esp
dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp
RichMerchantsSkyrim_x5.esp
UnreadBooksGlow.esp
lighter pickaxes & woodcutter axes.esp
Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp
ElysiumEstate.esp
CWICRFSEPatch.esp
Guards_Armor_Replacer.esp
DBM_GuardsArmorReplacer_Patch.esp
DBM_CloaksofSkyrim_Patch.esp
Unique Uniques.esp
Bells of Skyrim.esp
moonpath.esp
JRMoonpathtoElsweyrPatch.esp
Convenient Horses.esp
Phenderix Magic World.esp
ForgottenCity.esp
DBM_Falskaar_Patch.esp
Jorrvaskr Map Marker.esp
DBM_ImmersiveCollegeofWinterhold_Patch.esp
The Paarthurnax Dilemma.esp
DBM_Wyrmstooth_Patch.esp
AK- Boethiah Alternate.esp
AK- Namira for Good Guys.esp
Phenderix Magic World - Lore Friendly Patch.esp
DBM_ArsMetallica_Patch.esp
DBM_DBGG_Patch.esp
DBM_ForgottenCity_Patch.esp
DBM_IA_Patch.esp
DBM_Namira_Patch.esp
3DNPC0.esp
ERSO 09.1 - Essential Children_SSE.esp
HeimskrOnlyPreachesWeekends.esp
UniqueBarbas.esp
Vile Quest Both Rewards.esp
CBBE.esp
FranklyHDImperialArmorsAndWeapons.esp
CH BRU_FAL_WYR.esp
DBM_DGA_Patch.esp
DBM_Moonpath_Patch.esp
DBM_Wintersun_Patch.esp
BlendedRoads.esp
Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp
BetterQuestObjectives-AlternateStartPatch.esp
RealisticWaterTwo.esp
RealisticWaterTwo - Watercolor.esp
RealisticWaterTwo - Falskaar.esp
RealisticWaterTwo - Waves - Falskaar.esp

[anjenthedog]

I have only realistic water II (v3.0.4) installed. it has two plugins

 

realisticwatertwo.esp

realisticwatertwo-resoures.esm

With very few and minor exceptions, the water looks fine in skyrim, cyrodil and the reach for me.

 

Perhaps one of your realistic water II addons is having an issue