Flickering Problem

[Referer]

Hi there,

 

For some time I'm having problems with flickering mountains/skies.

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My specifications are in the description.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Drakinor1]

Are you using any mods? If your using ENB I know some of the older versions of ENB have major issues with ATI cards. Have your tried re-validating your game cache in steam? Are you forcing anything through Catalyst? Are your drivers, DirectX etc all up to date? My best guess would be either ATI drivers or a graphics mod, ENB, Mintys Lightning, Climates of Tamriel etc.

[Referer]

Hi, thanks for your response!

 

I forgot to mention the flickering occurs even when I disable all mods, but I have installed:

- AmidianBorn Elven Armor

- ApachiiSkyhair

- Apocalypse Spell Package

- Better Dynamic Snow

- Calientes Female Body Mod

- Immersive Armors

- Skyrim Flora Overhaul

- All the skyrim 2HD textures

- W.A.T.E.R - water and terrain enhancedment Redux

 

When does Catalyst force settings? Only when you create a specific profile for a game regarding the settings? I created a test profile once, but I don't know if Skyrim uses that one. The settings I used for that profile (it seems I can't delete the profile, so I can't test it after the profiles deleted.)

 

I tried to translate the values from Dutch as good as possible:

Standard 3d settings: Use Adjusted Settings

Anisotropic filtering: Use Application Settings

Catalyst A.I: Default

Detail mipmap: High quality

Wait for vertical refresh: Off, unless applications specifies

OpenGL: Triple buffering: off

 

AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

Standard 3d settings: Use Adjusted Settings

Anisotropic filtering: Deny Application Settings, Samples per pixel: 8x

Morphological Filtering: Disabled

Tesselation: AMD Optimised

Texture quality: quality

Surface optimization: Enabled

Detail mipmap: High Quality

Wait for vertical refresh: Off, unless applications specifies

Open GL: Triple buffering: off

 

Don't use crossfire.

 

I was using the latest, stable drivers for my graphical card. I updated to the beta version to see if that would help, but it didn't unfortunately. DirectX up-to-date yes.

 

I cleared cache in steam, no result too unfortunately.

 

Thanks in advance again!

[Drakinor1]

Hi, thanks for your response!

 

I forgot to mention the flickering occurs even when I disable all mods, but I have installed:

- AmidianBorn Elven Armor

- ApachiiSkyhair

- Apocalypse Spell Package

- Better Dynamic Snow

- Calientes Female Body Mod

- Immersive Armors

- Skyrim Flora Overhaul

- All the skyrim 2HD textures

- W.A.T.E.R - water and terrain enhancedment Redux

 

When does Catalyst force settings? Only when you create a specific profile for a game regarding the settings? I created a test profile once, but I don't know if Skyrim uses that one. The settings I used for that profile (it seems I can't delete the profile, so I can't test it after the profiles deleted.)

 

I tried to translate the values from Dutch as good as possible:

Standard 3d settings: Use Adjusted Settings

Anisotropic filtering: Use Application Settings

Catalyst A.I: Default

Detail mipmap: High quality

Wait for vertical refresh: Off, unless applications specifies

OpenGL: Triple buffering: off

 

AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

Standard 3d settings: Use Adjusted Settings

Anisotropic filtering: Deny Application Settings, Samples per pixel: 8x

Morphological Filtering: Disabled

Tesselation: AMD Optimised

Texture quality: quality

Surface optimization: Enabled

Detail mipmap: High Quality

Wait for vertical refresh: Off, unless applications specifies

Open GL: Triple buffering: off

 

Don't use crossfire.

 

I was using the latest, stable drivers for my graphical card. I updated to the beta version to see if that would help, but it didn't unfortunately. DirectX up-to-date yes.

 

I cleared cache in steam, no result too unfortunately.

 

Thanks in advance again!

Well none of those mods should be effecting lighting or sky so thats likely not it. Whenever you click anything other than "Use Application Settings" or whatever it says in Catalyst it will force the setting chosen. It looks like your forcing 8 samples of anisotropic filtering, which is fine, but make sure that in your skyrim settings its also at 8 samples. For some reason skyrim can get somewhat temperamental about forcing a different setting. Also are you using any ENB's or not? Sometime's ENBs can cause some interesting glitches. You may also try going through Catalyst and changing things one at a time to try and find a culprit (I know it is a HUGE pain:P) "Surface optimization: Enabled" is what I would try first if the anisotropic filtering match doesnt work.

 

You may also want to try TES5Edit (not sure if there is a dutch translation) to see if there are any dirty edits in your main files (NEVER TOUCH SKYRIM.ESM THOUGH!!) I know that Update.esm, Dawnguard.esm and Hearthfire.esm tend to have "ditry edits" which are the same information readded and can cause some issues. Hopefully that helps. If not, let us know so we can keep trying to get to the bottom of the problem.

 

 

[zyg0tic]

Kind of looks like artifacting, commonly caused by overheated or overclocked video card. Is your graphics card overclocked?

[Referer]

Kind of looks like artifacting, commonly caused by overheated or overclocked video card. Is your graphics card overclocked?

 

Nope, not overclocked, and a temperature of 25 celcius, and max 40 while stressed. ;)

 

 

@Drakinor1

I will try some settings in Catalyst. ENB are environmental mods?

 

I couldn't find any dirty edit with TES5edit ;)

[Referer]

I removed my display drivers, clean install; didn't work.

 

Because I deleted everything from AMD, CCC was deleted too, so I tried it without that particular game profile; didn't work either.

Tried vsync off in both CCC and .ini

Tried vsync on in CCC and of in .ini

Tried vsync off in CCC and on in .ini

Tried vsync on in CCC and on in .ini

 

Maybe it's something in the ini?

 

Skyrim.ini

[Display]

sD3DDevice="ATI Radeon HD 7800 Series"

[Grass]

b30GrassVS=1

[Water]

bReflectLODObjects=1

bReflectLODLand=1

bReflectSky=1

bReflectLODTrees=1

[General]

sLanguage=ENGLISH

uExterior Cell Buffer=100

uGridsToLoad=9

iPreloadSizeLimit=84934656

 

SkyrimPrefs.ini

[Display]

iTexMipMapSkip=0

bFXAAEnabled=0

fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=10000000.0000

fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=10000000.0000

fSpecularLODStartFade=2000.0000

fLightLODStartFade=3500.0000

fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=10000000.0000

iShadowMapResolution=4096

fShadowBiasScale=0.6000

iShadowMaskQuarter=4

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=3

fShadowDistance=8000.0000

iMaxDecalsPerFrame=100

iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=25

iAdapter=0

iSize W=1680

iSize H=1050

iMultiSample=8

iMaxAnisotropy=16

iPresentInterval=1

bFull Screen=1

sD3DDevice="AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series"

fInteriorShadowDistance=3000.0000

bFloatPointRenderTarget=1

fGamma=1.0000

iShadowFilter=3

fDecalLOD2=1500.0000

fDecalLOD1=1000.0000

fShadowLODStartFade=1000.0000

iTexMipMapMinimum=0

bTransparencyMultisampling=0

iWaterMultiSamples=0

iShadowMode=3

bTreesReceiveShadows=1

bDrawLandShadows=1

bDrawShadows=1

fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000

fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000

fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000

fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=256.0000

fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=2048.0000

fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=2844.0000

iScreenShotIndex=0

bShadowMaskZPrepass=0

bMainZPrepass=0

bShadowsOnGrass=1

bDeferredShadows=1

[imagespace]

iRadialBlurLevel=2

bDoDepthOfField=1

[LOD]

fLODFadeOutMultActors=15.0000

fLODFadeOutMultItems=15.0000

fLODFadeOutMultObjects=15.0000

fLODFadeOutMultSkyCell=1.0000

[Grass]

fGrassStartFadeDistance=7000.0000

b30GrassVS=0

fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=7000.0000

fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=400.0000

[Decals]

bDecals=1

bSkinnedDecals=1

uMaxDecals=1000

uMaxSkinDecals=100

uMaxSkinDecalsPerActor=60

[TerrainManager]

fTreeLoadDistance=300000.0000

fBlockMaximumDistance=250000.0000

fBlockLevel1Distance=70000.0000

fBlockLevel0Distance=35000.0000

fSplitDistanceMult=1.5000

bShowLODInEditor=0

[blurShaderHDR]

bDoHighDynamicRange=1

[blurShader]

bUseBlurShader=0

[Launcher]

bShowAllResolutions=1

uLastAspectRatio=4

bEnableFileSelection=1

[Water]

iWaterReflectHeight=512

iWaterReflectWidth=512

bUseWaterDisplacements=1

bUseWaterRefractions=1

bUseWaterReflections=1

bUseWaterDepth=1

[MAIN]

fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000

bGamepadEnable=1

bCrosshairEnabled=1

fHUDOpacity=1.0000

bSaveOnPause=1

bSaveOnTravel=1

bSaveOnWait=1

bSaveOnRest=1

[GamePlay]

bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1

bShowQuestMarkers=1

iDifficulty=3

[interface]

bDialogueSubtitles=0

bGeneralSubtitles=0

bShowCompass=1

fMouseCursorSpeed=1.0000

[Controls]

fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0340

fGamepadHeadingSensitivity=1.9000

bAlwaysRunByDefault=1

bInvertYValues=0

bGamePadRumble=1

bUseKinect=0

[Particles]

iMaxDesired=750

[saveGame]

fAutosaveEveryXMins=15.0000

[AudioMenu]

fAudioMasterVolume=1.0000

fVal7=1.0000

uID7=0

fVal6=1.0000

uID6=0

fVal5=1.0000

uID5=0

fVal4=1.0000

uID4=0

fVal3=0.6000

uID3=466532

fVal2=0.8000

uID2=554685

fVal1=0.8000

uID1=1007612

fVal0=1.0000

uID0=94881

[Clouds]

fCloudLevel2Distance=262144.0000

fCloudLevel1Distance=32768.0000

fCloudLevel0Distance=16384.0000

fCloudNearFadeDistance=9000.0000

[General]

iStoryManagerLoggingEvent=-1

bEnableStoryManagerLogging=0

[Trees]

bRenderSkinnedTrees=1

uiMaxSkinnedTreesToRender=40

 

It's getting really annoying :/

[Referer]

Mmm, sorry for the triple post, but downgrading to CCC 12.6 (instead of 12.10) seemed to do the trick for my HD 7850.

 

Thanks for your help!