Missing textures?

[OrcishOatmeal]

Hey guys, for a while now i've had this texture problem:

 

http://i.imgur.com/rnxslhO.jpg

 

 

I've also got problrms with snow, with each image of the particle effect replacing with blue squares

 

I've tried fixing them for a while now but haven't got a result, any ideas?

 

[EdinMG]

Yup...that's missing textures, maybe your computer, the GPU to be more precise, is struggling to load everything !!! What texture mods do you use and what's your PC specs ?!?

[OrcishOatmeal]

I have a enb installed but i'm gonna get rid of it because the game looks nearly exactly the same with or without it, also is it worth resetting the ini settings and see what happens?

 

MY pc specs:

 

AMD 1055t 2.8ghz processor

6gb Ram

Nvidia 660ti 2gb Graphics

Windows 7 - 64 Bit

 

Its my custom built gaming machine, and the only games i have problems with is skyrim and maybe mincraft

[saizetsu]

It is missing textures. I had this error with roughspun tunics. I found an HD version of the tunic and it stopped the purple goop like robe missing texture from happening. Do you have the Hi-res textures official dlc installed otherwise look for some texture overhauls for those and whatever else you may be missing and it should fix it. make sure you get both textures and meshes.

 

Otherwise you can try to do the steam verify integrity thing. (never helps me with anything ever.)

[Alpia]

 

Otherwise you can try to do the steam verify integrity thing. (never helps me with anything ever.)

Steam verify integrity sounds to me like suicide on a modded game

 

Its just a missing texture try reinstalling the texture mod that should apply the texture in there if you are using any also depending on what textures you use 1k 2k 4k? it might be what has been allready said

 

 

Yup...that's missing textures, maybe your computer, the GPU to be more precise, is struggling to load everything !!! What texture mods do you use and what's your PC specs ?!?

 

[winny257]

this is a problem caused by missing textures! it has nothing to do with your CPU! either something went wrong with the installation of mods,

or you accidentally overwrite something.

trying this mod once, this should corrected everything.

 

Hectrol CAVES DELUXE HighRes Retex by hectrol

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29145/?

http://static-2.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/29145-1-1356901686.jpg

[EdinMG]

this is a problem caused by missing textures! it has nothing to do with your CPU! either something went wrong with the installation of mods,

or you accidentally overwrite something.

trying this mod once, this should corrected everything.

 

Hectrol CAVES DELUXE HighRes Retex by hectrol

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29145/?

http://static-2.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/29145-1-1356901686.jpg

 

I said GPU, and not CPU, and yes, it can be caused by the GPU not loading everything depending on the texture mods installed, HiRes textures 4k or 2k all over the place, especially uncompressed textures, hi-poly meshes...etc, those things eats the VRam, literally speaking, thus making the GPU struggle to load/process/render everything, that's why people with lower end machines can't use textures above 1k, because their computer can't handle and what happens, purple things everywhere !!!

[winny257]

 

this is a problem caused by missing textures! it has nothing to do with your CPU! either something went wrong with the installation of mods,

or you accidentally overwrite something.

trying this mod once, this should corrected everything.

 

Hectrol CAVES DELUXE HighRes Retex by hectrol

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29145/?

http://static-2.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/29145-1-1356901686.jpg

 

I said GPU, and not CPU, and yes, it can be caused by the GPU not loading everything depending on the texture mods installed, HiRes textures 4k or 2k all over the place, especially uncompressed textures, hi-poly meshes...etc, those things eats the VRam, literally speaking, thus making the GPU struggle to load/process/render everything, that's why people with lower end machines can't use textures above 1k, because their computer can't handle and what happens, purple things everywhere !!!

 

 

but this can not be so, my CPU is less powerful as his!

I have a

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition

ATI radeon hd 6870

4 gb Ram

Windows 7 - 64 Bit

I only use 4k textures, also higher and I have no problems with texture error. only ENB is not at all, it expresses my performance (fps)

[sorsharavenwing]

You say that this has been going on for a while. Did it ever work without the problem manifesting itself? Or did it work just fine for a while before things started going sideways?

[OrcishOatmeal]

 

 

Otherwise you can try to do the steam verify integrity thing. (never helps me with anything ever.)

Steam verify integrity sounds to me like suicide on a modded game

 

Its just a missing texture try reinstalling the texture mod that should apply the texture in there if you are using any also depending on what textures you use 1k 2k 4k? it might be what has been allready said

 

 

Yup...that's missing textures, maybe your computer, the GPU to be more precise, is struggling to load everything !!! What texture mods do you use and what's your PC specs ?!?

 

 

Im not planning to verify my game cache, I have used TESV edit to clean my esp's so it would redownload nearly my entire skyrim install

 

this is a problem caused by missing textures! it has nothing to do with your CPU! either something went wrong with the installation of mods,

or you accidentally overwrite something.

trying this mod once, this should corrected everything.

 

Hectrol CAVES DELUXE HighRes Retex by hectrol

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29145/?

http://static-2.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/29145-1-1356901686.jpg

 

I've already had that mod installed, deleted and reinstalled too and its still not working (I am using mod organiser too btw)

[winny257]

 

this is a problem caused by missing textures! it has nothing to do with your CPU! either something went wrong with the installation of mods,

or you accidentally overwrite something.

trying this mod once, this should corrected everything.

 

Hectrol CAVES DELUXE HighRes Retex by hectrol

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29145/?

http://static-2.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/29145-1-1356901686.jpg

 

I've already had that mod installed, deleted and reinstalled too and its still not working (I am using mod organiser too btw)

 

 

if you have done this, then there are two possibilities. either your graphics card is defective, "which I would not hope", or something influences your textures.

[CGi]

if the graphic card runs out of resources (ram to load textures) then textures will normally be displayed black.
in this case, the texture simply seems to be missing. i guess there's a mod the replaces the used texture thru ESP or NiF.

Static Mesh Improvement Mod is such an example. iirc some of it's NiFs point to a different texture path and if this texture is missing, you get what you see now in your game. SMiM is just an example. it could be any other mod that you may have installed that changes such assets.

 

Another, even tho very unlikely, reason could be that you optimized this specific texture to death.

 

Last possible reason could be an errornous file system on the hard drive where the game and/or mods are installed and this specific texture is influenced by it. Running checkdisk never hurts, unless it's an SSD as then it hurts alot.

[OrcishOatmeal]

if the graphic card runs out of resources (ram to load textures) then textures will normally be displayed black.

in this case, the texture simply seems to be missing. i guess there's a mod the replaces the used texture thru ESP or NiF.

Static Mesh Improvement Mod is such an example. iirc some of it's NiFs point to a different texture path and if this texture is missing, you get what you see now in your game. SMiM is just an example. it could be any other mod that you may have installed that changes such assets.

 

Another, even tho very unlikely, reason could be that you optimized this specific texture to death.

 

Last possible reason could be an errornous file system on the hard drive where the game and/or mods are installed and this specific texture is influenced by it. Running checkdisk never hurts, unless it's an SSD as then it hurts alot.

 

Yep, I'm running SMiM, I'll disable that and see what happens, I have 4 hdd's in my pc, where 1 of them is for boot, skyrim and MO are both on different drives, is it worth running checkdisk on them anyway?

 

EDIT: Disabling SMiM has fixed the issue, but no idea if the snow effect has been sorted too, how can I keep SMiM enabled though but fix the texture too?

[CGi]

MO still got the bug with XML scripted installers, where in some cases not the correct files are going to be installed.
SMiM has a XML installer script that causes this error to appear, so the wrong files instead of the selected ones are installed.
Only work around is to manually install or fix the installer script.

 

Checking your mechanical hard drives for errors from time to time using CheckDisk is never a bad idea.
Just make sure to never ever check SSDs or USB-Sticks.

[OrcishOatmeal]

MO still got the bug with XML scripted installers, where in some cases not the correct files are going to be installed.

SMiM has a XML installer script that causes this error to appear, so the wrong files instead of the selected ones are installed.

Only work around is to manually install or fix the installer script.

 

Checking your mechanical hard drives for errors from time to time using CheckDisk is never a bad idea.

Just make sure to never ever check SSDs or USB-Sticks.

 

Ahh fair enough, I diddnt know about that bug. I've reinstalled the mod and go though my mod list again and putting the esp at the top in the mod order and its working now, i'll run CheckDisk soon then if thats also a case

 

 

Now onto problem 2, the wierd snow glitch, any ideas?

http://i.imgur.com/SEOYTZj.jpg

[CGi]

Looks to me like the same missing texture problem, but as the snow flakes are blue i'm not 100% sure.

Could even be caused by a destroyed teture, where alpha channels are missing or normals are screwed up.
Maybe someone else knows more about this, but as for troubleshooting, you could disable all mods the replace/edit snow (flake) textures.
Finding those mods is easy in MO, so you can simply disable those and see if everything looks as it should and if it does, enable the disabled mod(s) again to track down the error source.

[OrcishOatmeal]

Looks to me like the same missing texture problem, but as the snow flakes are blue i'm not 100% sure.

Could even be caused by a destroyed teture, where alpha channels are missing or normals are screwed up.

Maybe someone else knows more about this, but as for troubleshooting, you could disable all mods the replace/edit snow (flake) textures.

Finding those mods is easy in MO, so you can simply disable those and see if everything looks as it should and if it does, enable the disabled mod(s) again to track down the error source.

 

Yep, i'll just keep looking and i'll figure somthing out. I did used to use NMM but I still have a few mods installed on it :/

[CGi]

This kind of mix&match (NMM/Wrye + MO) is not a good thing.
Make a clean install of Skyrim and use MO only, to avoid unforseen side effects.

[winny257]

I have a suggestion that I use also.

 

Nicer Snowflakes by evercharmer

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/296/?

http://static-4.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/296-1-1321486974.png

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Correct load order is very importend with textures if you not have correct load order you can have this problem and some mod over ride other mod and textures are missing(purple texture means missing textures),

 

Use SKYRIM 2K HD textures and use for all texture mods lite version.

 

Also go for a performance ENB your system can handle lite performance.

 

But the load order for all texture mods is importend.

 

Go watch some tutorials read about it you be happier later on.

 

Good luck.