flashing and then colour spiking

[Guest wellbredbitch]

i load a save and after two minutes of stable game play , sections of the scenery start to flash brighter then darker. then the sky goes white and yellow and the colours seem to affect the fences and doors turning them blue. then various structures around me start refracting colour spikes. like weird crystals in all directions.

this gets worse and worse untill i can't tell up from down. 

i quit the game and start it again. load the save and after a few minutes the same thing happens.

 

here is a screen shot a few seconds after it has started.

 

 

 

my load order is

 

Skyrim esm

update esm

dawnguard esm

dragonborn esm

hearthfires esm

climates of tamriel esm

apachii hair esm

r18pn inner wear set esp

neo's kitten esp

ski ui esp

race menu esp

race menu plugin esp

climates of tamriel dungeon esp

cot interior esp

cot nights esp

cot dawnguard esp

cot dragonborn esp

enhanced blood main esp

enhanced blood dragonborn - dawnguard esp

unofficial hearthfire patch esp

unofficial dawnguard patch esp

unofficial skyrim patch esp

unofficial dragoborn patch esp

climates of tamriel sound esp

 

i also have installed

xpms 32

dream girl

sg renewal textures

neovinci's female textures for dream girl

hello santa's original pubic hair texture

 

this is a very recent development.  i swapped to dreamgirl from 7B bombshell. 

[Ark of Truth]

It looks like a graphics issue as if your graphics card was about to die.

 

What happens when you disable all mods except the official DLC, does it still happen?

[Guest wellbredbitch]

with all mods disabled except skyrim, update, dawnguard, dragonborn, hearthfires. game starts normally and menu appears i select load and load my only save game. loading screen appears and then it ctd.

[Shocky]

^ What Ark of Truth said, happened to me, then my graphic card died, but not in all cases, did you tried to play other games to see if they have the same issue?

[CGi]

Agreed. Very likely an hardware based problem.
Check if your graphic card is not overheating, remove any overclocking (if applied), lower the clockspeeds just for testing, check your system memory for errors and make sure the installation isn't damaged in any way (like bad sectors on the install HD), as corrupted meshes and/or textures can lead to a similar oddity.

[Veladarius]

Turn off the MSAA Anti-Aliasing. Mine did something similar and went away after I did that.

[Guest wellbredbitch]

the only other game i have is TombRaider. i get to see all the intro scenes and then when Lara is in the sea my screen either shows a blue screen crash dump or after alot of screen stutter it restarts.

 

i cleaned the insides of it with a small soft paint brush,  whilst vacuuming the lifted dust and fluff up. all the connections seem to be firm and there isn't any obvious damage.

 

i put it back together and started it up.

bizarrely,  during startup, the device manager started and after a few minutes it gave the message that the software for my new device was installed and it was ready to use.

 

i started Skyrim, a chose to start a new game. it was all normal untill Alduin attacked. then the crazy spiking and colour distortion started again.

 

if it is just the spiking, my character can still look around and usually there is a part of the scenery unafffected. i can then navigate my way to the tower where Ulfric and the others are.

once inside everything is normal. no weirdness. i go up the stairs and after Alduin has made handy escape hole for me, i jump across to the inn and the spikes start again.

from this pattern i have discovered that interior cells function normally. combat runs normally inside too. go outside and its crazy colours and spiking after a few seconds.

 

whilst i am typing this, my screen temporarily locks up. which is also weird.

 

my computer is 9(nine) years old. it has an AMD Phenom 9500 quad core 2.20ghz processor. 3gb memory. Nvidia Geforce 9500 gt card. 

i recently installed windows 7.

 

i sort of realised it was time to get a new desktop before all this started. i installed the Nvidia Geforce experience utility. it didn't have any features for me.

 

[Guest wellbredbitch]

i'm getting ghost images of this page after i click post. 

i think it's tiime to buy a new desktop.

 

any advice?  my budget is £20 a month for finance so i can get a desktop that is around £400.

[Guest wellbredbitch]

all fixed now. my old pc is added to the pile of crap in my shed. I'm typing this on a brand new one I got  for £275 hehe. thanks for all your advice peeps.