No crosshair for bows while mounted?

[bjornk]

I'm not sure if that's always been the case or if it's a bug or a mod issue, but it seems there's no crosshair when you equip a bow while mounted. Can anyone else confirm this?

[Content Consumer]

It happens to me a lot, that the crosshairs disappear when mounted. I have no idea what causes it... I don't know if it's any mod in particular, it used to happen to me when I was playing just vanilla Skyrim with the unofficial patches.

 

Usually I can just exit the game and re-enter and they're back for some odd reason... try that and see?

 

 

EDIT:

Derp... Thirty seconds with google turned up this:

http://www.loverslab.com/topic/22128-no-crosshair-when-ridingsolved/

I should actually look for a solution before I post something like "there is no solution."

[bjornk]

I've read that thread. I don't use the "No enemies on compass" mod, or "Immersive HUD". I have Convenient Horses, though not the latest version and it doesn't have any setting related to crosshairs. I don't think I have any HUD altering mod either. The unofficial patches might be the culprit, but bows do have crosshairs while mounted, right? At least that's what I recall.

 

Oh, I also have "Immersive First Person" installed but I don't use/activate it in the game.

 

Is there a game setting that disables crosshairs for horseback combat?

[Content Consumer]

I don't think that there's a game setting that disables crosshairs... I mean, for me they go away and come back anyway so it's not a setting.

 

I wonder if SKYUI is at fault here... but then again, I used to get the problem before I was using SKYUI, so probably not...?

[bjornk]

Created a dummy mod that only contains vanilla hud graphics assets (hudmenu.gfx etc) and there's nothing that conflicts/overwrites those files in my mod list, so it's either a vanilla bug or a mod disables it (either by running some code or modifying a game variable or both). Mind you, I do have a crosshair for the bow while not riding.

 

BTW, just as I recalled, you do get a crosshair for the bow on horseback,  so it seems this is a mod glitch or a bug.

[Content Consumer]

It's irritating. The only things I can hit with any reliability while on horseback are dragons, mammoths, and giants.

Bandits? I'm lucky to get them 3/4 of the time.

[bjornk]

I wouldn't care about it too much if I could use first person view on horseback, but with the 3rd person view aiming sucks. Anyway, thanks for replying. I'll let you know if I can figure out what the problem is.