White Graphical Glitch Around Weapons / Hands in First Person

[SenorPickle]

I hadn't played in half a year so I updated Skyrim, pruned through old mods, and installed some new ones. Since then I've been playing over the past few days and have had no issues whatsoever.

 

Now today I bought Dawnguard, ran BOSS, installed a couple of mod updates, and installed new drivers for my graphics card. When I came back I had this issue (see attached screenshot). Essentially any time I'm in first person and am around water, smoke, etc. I get this ugly white border around my hands and weapons. The closer I get to the water source, the larger the white distortion gets. The white graphical glitch moves consistently with the water, smoke etc. moving in the background.

 

I first thought it was my graphic card drivers because I had just updated them, but I rolled back to the previous version with a clean driver install and it's still happening. I also went through each of the newly updated mods and disabled them one-by-one and checked in game and it's still an issue. I can list my installed mods if that will help. Research into this hasn't yielded much help, anti-aliasing settings don't effect it in the slightest, and it was not happening whatsoever before.

 

Any help would be appreciated, it's very distracting when I play.

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

UPDATE: So it first showed up while I was inside of the Moonpath to Elsweyr mod. Everywhere inside that mod I encounter that problem, but when I went outside (say to the lake north of Falkreath) it didn't happen. It happened again indoors in another area of the game, except that time the color around the hands/weapons was a dark yellow. It seems like the color matches whatever the ambient light source color is set to. So I'm still looking for help if anyone as any ideas.

 

UPDATE 2: In case anyone else encounters this problem this is how I fixed it: My Documents/My Games/Skyrim/Skyrim.ini add the line "fNear1stPersonDistance=0.0000" in the Display section. Haven't noticed any other changes other than the weird corruption going away, but now everything is pretty again!

Edited January 7, 2013 by SenorPickle

[getlow2]

I really hate to necro a old thread but this is the only thing i found on this after hours of looking around that gave a solid answer.

 

That fix works but it messes with ENB ssao were your hands are always see thru not just when there close to something but its a fair trade off imo.

[prod80]

Its a magic effect, can easily be fixed without destroying you game... there's a sticky on this forum with everything inside

[getlow2]

Its a magic effect, can easily be fixed without destroying you game... there's a sticky on this forum with everything inside

The problem i had that this fixed wasnt a magic effect it happens on every character. These huge blue reflections around my hands and weapons while looking at water.

[prod80]

 

Its a magic effect, can easily be fixed without destroying you game... there's a sticky on this forum with everything inside

The problem i had that this fixed wasnt a magic effect it happens on every character. These huge blue reflections around my hands and weapons while looking at water.

 

 

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[getlow2]

Here a 2 quick pics of what im dealing with this is a fresh install nothing added i just happened to be redoing it when i came back to check on this.

 

before

 

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/256777/?

 

after

 

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/Images/256778/?

 

 

Thats not to bad there but i just did a coc riverwood to get to water fast its much worse in some areas and i could never get it to go away till i added that to my ini.

[AYLeiDRuiN]

EDIT: @SenorPickle fNear1stPersonDistance=0.0000 WORKED FOR ME.

 

and for anyone else see his post. or

Mygames/skyrim/skyrim.ini

edit under [Display]

add to bottom of that section:

fNear1stPersonDistance=0.0000

 

I am sorry I skimmed through your post SenorPickle

 

 

 

Please Disregard the rest and the following post.

 

 

 

 

I am having the same problem. its like the reflections on the water change around our weapons, unarmed hands, magic...w/e.

 

In other words, its like my body is messing with the reflections and instead of just being there behind your hands. it stops a little b4 your hands. and it creates these weird Flowing reflection steps/globs. but not like aliasing. its really like the reflections stop 1/4" from our hands. but the forearm will have a bigger "white area" and the hand will be small.

 

It only happens looking at water close. Like looking down at it. Doesn't happen on far away water.

 

I was adding STEP ini tweaks. Mainly in the "Threaded" department. But that shouldn't do this since its just adding more processing power. the other was update of the POV changing to 0 second switching from 1st to 3rd person. again. It shouldn't matter.

 

I DID NOT HAVE THIS before messing with my ini so try reverting back. BACKUP what you do replace.

 

%USER%/Documents/MyGames/Skyrim OR

just go to your Documents folder/My Games/ Skyrim. same thing.

 

the ini.s in your skyrim root folder are defaults and are NOT to be touched. They are not what the game follows anyways. only the launcher gets these when you first run it or change the settings within the launcher.

 

i5 3570k

HD 7770 1GB

16GB GSkill

z77a GD65

Win 7 Ult.

Edited August 21, 2013 by AYLeiDRuiN

[AYLeiDRuiN]

Deleted on account of me not being thorough. :pinch:

Edited August 21, 2013 by AYLeiDRuiN