LoloPinky Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 (TL;DR My character's face flashes black, is this caused by running SLI? If so, is there a fix?) Hello everyone, I've recently come back to Skyrim and reinstalled all my mods. Now, everything was working pretty much fine. Fairly stable FPS - around 30-40 with ENB enabled, SSAO and DoF disabled (I freaking love that mod). Obviously, it drops down a fair bit when I turn SSAO and DoF on, so I settled with playing with them off and turning them on for screenshots only. However, I actually have a second graphics card (GTX 570), I just haven't been able to use it for the last while because my boyfriend was using it. Anyway, I got it back, so I now have 2 570's in SLI. And now I have a problem. The face, or head, of my character now flashes black and after a while it eventually turns completely black. I've tried reinstalling my face/body textures and it did nothing (as I originally thought it was a problem with using the texture blender). So I did a bit of googling and what mostly comes up is people having the problem when using Crossfire. So I wondered if this could also be caused by using SLI? I haven't tried playing without my SLI as it was late last night when I discovered it and I'm at work at the moment so can't test it. If it is a problem with SLI however, does anyone know if there's a fix going about for it? Or if there is anything I can do other than having to disable SLI to play Skyrim? Thanks everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belial666 Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Make sure you got latest drivers.I use beta(313.96) and they seem to have made Skyrim bit faster.Also,try playing without any mods enable.Then play with one mod at a time.Body replacers count as mod,so make sure to move the folder temporarily.It could jsut be your textures are too large for the card to handle,I get black on CBBE body if I use the 67M texture in the texture folder,so have to use the other one they have in a high quality folder.Also,change quality settings from low to ultra.If you made changes to your Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini,then back em up and let it make a new one.If still having issue,try one card at a time,incase one is starting to go bad.That should get you started checking,lol.Hope it helps and you figure it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoloPinky Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 Updating to the beta drivers appears to have fixed it - thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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