Odd Character skin textures

[Wiffleball]

Hey guys, I'm having a graphical problem with Skyrim.

 

My character's skin turns jet black, but the face, hands, feet, and underclothes are still there. As far as I can tell, the minor textures of the abs are still showing up, but the color is jet black.

 

I'm wearing modded armor, but this isn't the issue as it occurs even when I'm not wearing any armor at all.

 

I tried reloading and switching armors back and forth, but nothing has worked.

 

Please help, this is my favorite character...

 

Thanks.

[ryan65]

Is this a new problem? Have you installed any new mods recently?

[Wiffleball]

It is a new problem, and I have installed a few mods recently, but none change character skin textures. I downloaded the arena mod in Windhelm most recently.

[Kenzen]

Hello Wiffleball, your issue is exactly the same as mine, I call it (Smoky Shadow), it engulfs the body's textures except face, hands and feet.

 

If you try to zoom-in very closely on the body textures this Smoky Shadow will dissipate and you will see the real body textures underneath it.

Thus, it is not the textures it self became black but there is some issue I think with light and shadow on high resolution textures like the characters body that causes the Smoky Shadow.

 

The solution can be switching off the (Occlusion) option from the graphics card settings (if you have Geforce graphics card) or simply just hitting the default Nvidia Restore button for the graphics card settings, try this and tell me the result.

 

I want to notify you that the smoky shadow appear from time to time on my character and I use CBBE ultra resolution textures, I use different things sometimes to get rid off it.

 

On Skyrim Nexus CBBE there is an answer there from the Modder on this issue:-

 

Q: Why am I getting black body textures after playing for a while?

 

A1: The longer you play, the more RAM/VRAM gets used up. After a while of playing, especially if you use higher-res textures such as CBBE, there isn't enough RAM/VRAM to load the textures. This was a very common issue at the beginning of Skyrim modding, before the 4GB mod and BethSoft's LAA patch. It is recommended you have a decent video card and more than 4GB RAM to help prevent this from happening. If you can't, then simply restarting Skyrim should solve the issues for a while. You can also go into an interior cell, open the console, and enter 'pcb' to purge cell buffers and free up memory.

 

A2: The body textures weren't saved with mipmaps originally, which can cause the body textures to go black. You can fix this by downloading and installing the 'mip maps' file for your body mod, found in the optional downloads.

 

 

P.s. Can you please type your PC specifications?

[Belial666]

I had the same issue with CBBE skin.Use the femalebody_1.dds in MedLowResTex\High\textures\actors\character\female in CBBE folder,it's only 11M.It's not insanely huge 67M like the one in thier main texture,and you won't see a difference unless you run it at some huge screen res like 3200x2000 or something on a 32"+ monitor,and probably need atleast 2GB RAM card.

[Kenzen]

I had the same issue with CBBE skin.Use the femalebody_1.dds in MedLowResTex\High\textures\actors\character\female in CBBE folder,it's only 11M.It's not insanely huge 67M like the one in thier main texture,and you won't see a difference unless you run it at some huge screen res like 3200x2000 or something on a 32"+ monitor,and probably need atleast 2GB RAM card.

 

That was one of the solutions that I used to solve the problem of smoky shadows, but I still want to use the ultra resolution textures and I would like to really solve the problem for it permanently, my Pc specifications are:

 

CPU: 3770k

GPU: EVGA GTX 680 on SLi

RAM: Kingston 2400 mhz 16 gb

OS: Win7 x64

 

So there is no excuse to have the smoky shadows on my textures, but for some reason it appear may be because of the limited Ram usage of the engine of the game itself.