[Dean Ashcroft]

Well I'm getting purple textures on random things (trees, clothes, ground, etc.) after each hour or so of gameplay.

Now lots of people get this issue, but most have found simple solutions, mine however persists, below is the methods I've tried to fix this.

1. Using absolutely no mods. However I have used high-rez texture packs and it persists with or without them.

2. I have run GPU-Z during gameplay and check it and it's logs when the purple textures show up. It shows the most used was 550mb of vram without enhanced textures, and 760 with a ton of texture packs. I have 1GB of vram so this obviously isn't the issue.

3. I have tried the 4GB.exe off the nexus. I must admit however this program is a major pain to use and setup with the 11.11c ati drivers. (Which give me a whole extra 10fps at times.) I'm not 100% sure I have it setup correctly, but all the instructions for doing so are so HORRIBLY worded and badly described that I kind of had to trial and error it. If someone would like to write a "through" and exact explanation of the process please do so. Also don't give me that link to the nexus fix for this with the .dll file, that garbage removes the 10fps bonus and then deducts another 10fps. It needs to be removed for download honestly.

4. I am using the 1.1 patch. 1.2 breaks the game, and 1.3 obliterates the fps and causes so many CTD's it shouldn't even exist. With 1.1 I get one CTD every 2-3 days at most. So it's mandatory I keep this version until Beth can make a working patch.

Core i5 OC'd at 4gz (stable)
16GB of ram.

The game runs smooth as silk with a fps limiter getting rid of the mouse coding stupidity and movement stutter. The only issue are these damn purple textures showing up eventually.
Also I never see the system memory go over 2GB of ram used for the program. (Hell it usually doesn't go over 700megs. Which I find very odd.)

I've almost given up trying to find a solution, but figured I'd ask here as a last resort. Also if the solution is updating the patch version I'll go ahead and live with this texture error, I'd rather have to restart every hour than crash to desktop every 20 minutes after not saving.

[NIloufar Emporio]

I wouldn't stress over your system, this is a game bug not a system bug.

I get the same texture issues see my post here - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-37.html#post1696898

Bottom line it's not your PC, it's the game, and after 3 patches they still haven't fixed it so....

[Peter P Canning]

Yeah I've had some werid textures pop in and out of the game at random.
Colours like yours but on flags, some leathers hanging off walls, not sure if it was the game either but there was a cow that was flashing with rune symbles all over it?

[Jonny]

Purple Textures - Textures don't load. This isn't a specific problem, it's a normal problem. Why? It is because Skyrim can't access enough memory to load all the textures. Why it happens without the high-rez mods? Who is to say, your memory could be at fault there.

Bottom line it's not your PC, it's the game, and after 3 patches they still haven't fixed it so....

Really? I am not going against the original poster here, by my game runs fine and i have never seen a purple texture before, even with mods and some higher res textures. The only differences between my game and his are our two PC, therefore by simple logic it's to his system not the game.

You may also want to give the ENB series a shot, although if you didn't like the way the 4GB patch was set up you probably won't like that one either. You can also wait until the next patch (should be soon), that one will officially support LAA (Something they should have though about before releasing the game really).

[Richus Dude]

I wouldn't stress over your system, this is a game bug not a system bug.

I get the same texture issues see my post here - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-37.html#post1696898

Bottom line it's not your PC, it's the game, and after 3 patches they still haven't fixed it so....

Yup, thats exactly what happens to me, even the shiny clothes. Tried the new HD clothes textures in hope it would fix it, it didn't. Ah well, guess I'll just have to endure it till patch 8.4 comes out in two years when the game works perfectly. (And it'll be a user made patch I'd bet. XD )

[jodie]

Yeah try the ENBSeries patch, it helps a heap with the textures utilising the ram better.

[Channing]

Yeah try the ENBSeries patch, it helps a heap with the textures utilising the ram better.

Haven't seen this one before, I'll give it a try, nothing to lose.

[Angelina Mayo]

We'll at least you seem to know how to troubleshoot somewhat. I'm glad to see you used GPU-Z to monitor your GPU memory usage. I'm also glad to see that have also learned that this game doesn't use more than 1GB of memory. I wish more people would learn that rather than spouting of stuff they have no proof of.

However, you failed to restore your CPU to its default clock speeds. If your memory is running at faster timing than it is designed for, it should be put back to BIOS Safe values. And, if your GPU is overclocked (even if it came from that factory that way) it should be restored to default clock speeds for that model of card.

[CHangohh BOyy]

Purple Textures - Textures don't load. This isn't a specific problem, it's a normal problem. Why? It is because Skyrim can't access enough memory to load all the textures. Why it happens without the high-rez mods? Who is to say, your memory could be at fault there.



Really? I am not going against the original poster here, by my game runs fine and i have never seen a purple texture before, even with mods and some higher res textures. The only differences between my game and his are our two PC, therefore by simple logic it's to his system not the game.

You may also want to give the ENB series a shot, although if you didn't like the way the 4GB patch was set up you probably won't like that one either. You can also wait until the next patch (should be soon), that one will officially support LAA (Something they should have though about before releasing the game really).

I love these kinds of reply - "it hasn't happened to me so it can't be true" LOL. Anyway Google is your friend. Also if you look through my thread at sevenforums.com, the link I posted in my original reply, you'd see other's have reported the same thing. It's the game! Period!

[Mackenzie]

I love these kinds of reply - "it hasn't happened to me so it can't be true" LOL. Anyway Google is your friend. Also if you look through my thread at sevenforums.com, the link I posted in my original reply, you'd see other's have reported the same thing. It's the game! Period!

I already said, i wasn't trying to imply that it doesn't happen, but seeing as how your response was uninformative and inaccurate, I had to correct it. You can't say that it happens to everyone and that's to the game if it happens to a minority of you. I never said that It hasn't happened to me and it can't be true. It has happened on my girlfriends computer several times, and it is due to the fact that Skyrims to have a larger adress aware in order to be able to load all the textures. If you don't even feel like trying the patch don't make pointless comments like this. Furthermore i did present a normal solution AND state that Bethesda is working on an official patch to fix this, how you can get that i said that from my post is beyond me.

There is nothing "special" with this texture problem. It is known that when Skyrim does not want to load a texture it either shows purple/pink, white or black underneath. When that happens restarting the game, and therefore resetting the memory fixes the problem temporarily. If the OP did manage to install LAA properly, than it must be something to do with his memory, since bad memory forces these textures, and also crashes the game. Perhaps making sure your memory is okay would be better instead of downloading the ENB patch, since i heard it slows down the game massively.

[le GraiN]

I already said, i wasn't trying to imply that it doesn't happen, but seeing as how your response was uninformative and inaccurate, I had to correct it. You can't say that it happens to everyone and that's to the game if it happens to a minority of you. I never said that It hasn't happened to me and it can't be true. It has happened on my girlfriends computer several times, and it is due to the fact that Skyrims to have a larger adress aware in order to be able to load all the textures. If you don't even feel like trying the patch don't make pointless comments like this. Furthermore i did present a normal solution AND state that Bethesda is working on an official patch to fix this, how you can get that i said that from my post is beyond me.

There is nothing "special" with this texture problem. It is known that when Skyrim does not want to load a texture it either shows purple/pink, white or black underneath. When that happens restarting the game, and therefore resetting the memory fixes the problem temporarily. If the OP did manage to install LAA properly, than it must be something to do with his memory, since bad memory forces these textures, and also crashes the game. Perhaps making sure your memory is okay would be better instead of downloading the ENB patch, since i heard it slows down the game massively.

From my poor understanding on how the Creation/Gamebryo etc works I believe that textures are loaded into the graphic card memory, not on the system one, so how is the LAA supposed to help here?

[Farrah Barry]

I already said, i wasn't trying to imply that it doesn't happen, but seeing as how your response was uninformative and inaccurate, I had to correct it. You can't say that it happens to everyone and that's to the game if it happens to a minority of you. I never said that It hasn't happened to me and it can't be true. It has happened on my girlfriends computer several times, and it is due to the fact that Skyrims to have a larger adress aware in order to be able to load all the textures. If you don't even feel like trying the patch don't make pointless comments like this. Furthermore i did present a normal solution AND state that Bethesda is working on an official patch to fix this, how you can get that i said that from my post is beyond me.

There is nothing "special" with this texture problem. It is known that when Skyrim does not want to load a texture it either shows purple/pink, white or black underneath. When that happens restarting the game, and therefore resetting the memory fixes the problem temporarily. If the OP did manage to install LAA properly, than it must be something to do with his memory, since bad memory forces these textures, and also crashes the game. Perhaps making sure your memory is okay would be better instead of downloading the ENB patch, since i heard it slows down the game massively.

You're arguing about nothing as you're basically agreeing with me, it's a game problem, not a PC problem. You can sit there and try to discredit me all you want, but your statement agrees with my assessment. Bethesda agrees with the assessment since they said they are putting out a LAA patch - http://www.bethblog.com/2011/12/07/skyrim-update-1-3-now-on-steam/

Now.... I will agree that if the PC is below the game's recommended specs, well that is an issue. HOWEVER those that have met or exceeded those specs, they STILL get the color texture problems! Period!

And BTW I have a 17-950 on a Gigabyte MB with 6gig of memory and a 6950 2gig card.

And your childish banter of making yourself seem larger than life in an internet forum is laughable. No one insulted you! Grow up and learn how to converse without the childish insults; you make yourself look, well… like a child who can’t get their way.

Later.

[Anna Watts]

Hi,

Just thought I'd say, I played over 120 hours on v1.1 and never had the purple texture issue. After just 20 or so on v1.3 (new game) I've seen it several times. The obvious one being on the perks screen once, and a couple where an NPC's clothing had gone purple/white with no textures. A saved/reload sorted things.

v1.3 has had more CTD's than v1.1 in the same amount of time, three in 20hrs vs. the same in 120hrs of v1.1. Generally performance is slightly improved however.

Note: in v1.3 my CTD's are different. In v1.1 I'd get an obvious glitch and crash, in v1.3 I'm playing 100% fine then suddenly I'm on my desktop. Still, generally, per-hour at least, CTD'd aren't too bad - I save a lot!

Scoob.

[Zualett]

i hadn't the texture issue prior to 1.3 but now i have to occasionaly restart the game to have my textures back to normal. i didn't use the 4gb loader before i encountered the issue. Now it seams to reduce the number of restart, although i haven't played much with the 4gb loader

[Lawrence Armijo]

Hi,

Just thought I'd say, I played over 120 hours on v1.1 and never had the purple texture issue. After just 20 or so on v1.3 (new game) I've seen it several times. The obvious one being on the perks screen once, and a couple where an NPC's clothing had gone purple/white with no textures. A saved/reload sorted things.

v1.3 has had more CTD's than v1.1 in the same amount of time, three in 20hrs vs. the same in 120hrs of v1.1. Generally performance is slightly improved however.

Note: in v1.3 my CTD's are different. In v1.1 I'd get an obvious glitch and crash, in v1.3 I'm playing 100% fine then suddenly I'm on my desktop. Still, generally, per-hour at least, CTD'd aren't too bad - I save a lot!

Scoob.

The purple color issue has been reported before patches 1.2 or 1.3 were released so it's not a matter of which patch you use. Same with the CTD's, doesn't matter the patch.

With regards to CTD's one thing I posted in my thread at sevenforums is that you should clean out your save file folder down to the last 10 saves. That seems to help with crashes in Bethesda games - Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and now Skyrim. My post here - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-6.html#post1672478

BTW this is the first time I got the "Purple" color - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-6.html#post1672440

[Betsy Humpledink]

yep had this. trees, people, items, weapons, buildings you name it.

and it's def. not my PC either...

[Sarah Knight]

if you take a long walk round the land and mountains paying close attention to the meshing,you`ll notice lots of the landscapes 4 feet off the ground and the underground areas are not much better.

no wonder the textures are nuts,what you are probably seeing is a tiny part of a texture badly mapped and bleeding.

this is a problem that we might be able to solve after the CK,but sod doing it,its a massive job.
[really really massive job.

[Laura Mclean]

if you take a long walk round the land and mountains paying close attention to the meshing,you`ll notice lots of the landscapes 4 feet off the ground and the underground areas are not much better.

no wonder the textures are nuts,what you are probably seeing is a tiny part of a texture badly mapped and bleeding.

this is a problem that we might be able to solve after the CK,but sod doing it,its a massive job.
[really really massive job.

Don't you have a new TV series to make? I am getting tired of waiting!! Time to get back to smegging work already!

[Francesca]

Yeah there are some texture problems here and there in the game but overall the game looks pretty amazing. Anyway for those having graphical issues don't forget to check your video drivers as one of the posters in my thread here found out - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-13.html#post1677478

Just something to think about.

[Chrissie Pillinger]

Don't you have a new TV series to make? I am getting tired of waiting!! Time to get back to smegging work already!

you know thats what was being discussed in a room 20 feet away from me about 2 weeks ago

and would she tell me what was said ?

would she bollox,which is telling in itself...well thats what i am hoping.

[sam westover]

From my poor understanding on how the Creation/Gamebryo etc works I believe that textures are loaded into the graphic card memory, not on the system one, so how is the LAA supposed to help here?

Answer:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2146:
Anybody using this pack or any other pack witch adds high resolution textures should first download and install this mod:

4GB Skyrim (http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013)

Skyrim has issues if you increase the textures sizes beyond the default and starts to have stability issues like crashing and purple textures. This mod should solve your problems.

This is why i suggested to the OP to try to make LAA work or wait until the next patch, or to check his/her memory.

You're arguing about nothing as you're basically agreeing with me, it's a game problem, not a PC problem. You can sit there and try to discredit me all you want, but your statement agrees with my assessment. Bethesda agrees with the assessment since they said they are putting out a LAA patch - http://www.bethblog....3-now-on-steam/

Now.... I will agree that if the PC is below the game's recommended specs, well that is an issue. HOWEVER those that have met or exceeded those specs, they STILL get the color texture problems! Period!

And BTW I have a 17-950 on a Gigabyte MB with 6gig of memory and a 6950 2gig card.

And your childish banter of making yourself seem larger than life in an internet forum is laughable. No one insulted you! Grow up and learn how to converse without the childish insults; you make yourself look, well… like a child who can’t get their way.

Later.

You have a serious problem misreading posts don't you? I hate seeing people who blame Bethesda not patching the game properly, when they know jack [censored] about testing for a new patch. In light of OP's problem however, i won't go into much detail as to why because the post will get locked. You should try to help the OP instead of posting irrelevant and incorrect answers, such as this:

I wouldn't stress over your system, this is a game bug not a system bug.

I get the same texture issues see my post here - http://www.sevenforu...tml#post1696898

Bottom line it's not your PC, it's the game, and after 3 patches they still haven't fixed it so....

Bottom line: Not nearly everyone has this problem. No one on XBOX 360 or the PS3 has this problem. Therefore it must be your configuration and not the game. If you fail to realize this than you really are clueless. Try giving programming a shot, and see how difficult it is to make a program to work on thousands of different configurations.

[Dan Wright]

Answer:



This is why i suggested to the OP to try to make LAA work or wait until the next patch, or to check his/her memory.



You have a serious problem misreading posts don't you? I hate seeing people who blame Bethesda not patching the game properly, when they know jack [censored] about testing for a new patch. In light of OP's problem however, i won't go into much detail as to why because the post will get locked. You should try to help the OP instead of posting irrelevant and incorrect answers, such as this:



Bottom line: Not nearly everyone has this problem. No one on XBOX 360 or the PS3 has this problem. Therefore it must be your configuration and not the game. If you fail to realize this than you really are clueless. Try giving programming a shot, and see how difficult it is to make a program to work on thousands of different configurations.

Logic FAIL I suspect you don't know much about programming yourself. It could be a pc configuration issue but just because it is not an issue for PS3 or XBOX does not automatically mean it has to be a client issue only problem. It can still be a game issue for PC, sorry but ps3 and XBOX are not using the same code as the PC so you cannot make that logic jump.

Truth is this issue is likely both client and game issues combined. When I play a straight load of the game no mods I had no purple textures under 1.1 and 1.2. Under 1.3 I was getting some but very rare. When I add mods I get the purple texture issue significantly more often. It appears the texture loading directly from the game works better than texture loading from the data texture files, which is the file path for mods built into the game code. Now as to why this seems to be the problem only Beth would/will know at this time, we just don't have the source code and experience to nail down the specifics.

[victoria johnstone]

Logic FAIL I suspect you don't know much about programming yourself. It could be a pc configuration issue but just because it is not an issue for PS3 or XBOX does not automatically mean it has to be a client issue only problem. It can still be a game issue for PC, sorry but ps3 and XBOX are not using the same code as the PC so you cannot make that logic jump.

Truth is this issue is likely both client and game issues combined. When I play a straight load of the game no mods I had no purple textures under 1.1 and 1.2. Under 1.3 I was getting some but very rare. When I add mods I get the purple texture issue significantly more often. It appears the texture loading directly from the game works better than texture loading from the data texture files, which is the file path for mods built into the game code. Now as to why this seems to be the problem only Beth would/will know at this time, we just don't have the source code and experience to nail down the specifics.

I won't bother trying to get a whole point across, the only thing I am trying to do is help the OP with his problem. I mentioned the PS3 and the XBOX just to re-iterate that this problem is not introduced by the game itself messing itself up (like the magic resistance problem was, for example, or the backwards flying dragons).

What you stated in the bottom part of the post is what i was trying to tell the OP all along. Just don't make a statement that the only thing that's wrong is the game because it is not true.

[Jordan Fletcher]

Hmmm..... I'm guessing the consoles have no issues. Let me see.... Well would you lookie here

Xbox 360 - http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1298524-xbox-360-bug-report-topic/

PS3 - http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1298322-the-unofficial-bug-list-v2/

I'm guessing they released 3 patches for all 3 platforms so no one would feel left out

BTW.....

Updated 12/6: While the 1.2 update fixed the long-term play issues for most PS3 users, we are aware that is not the case for some. We’ve been reaching out to a number of those users to collect save games, so we can take a look at their specific issues. Right now we know it’s not one thing, but a combination of smaller ones that some folks are seeing, but others are not. Some seem to be the PS3 autosaving in the background (you can turn that off), some may be SPU AI updates, and some may relate to dynamic system memory allocation. These fixes are not in the current 1.3 update that is in final testing, but will be in future ones. We understand how frustrating it can be when your game is having issues, and we thank all of you for your continued feedback and patience. Rest assured we take your gameplay experience seriously and will continue working on this until it’s resolved.

http://www.bethblog.com/2011/12/01/skyrim-what-were-working-on/

Have a good day

[Shae Munro]

Hi I'd just like to say, I've played over 500,000 hours and I've never experienced..... naah, just kidding. I used to have the purple texture glitch and CTDs but I now use the 4GB and LAA and it seems to have stopped that. Not that I should have to.

I still get missing water outside from time to time, and the Morokei invisible head glitch. Today I have experienced the most bizarre thing yet:

I went to Yngol Barrow and the book outside was untouchable and unreadable. I went inside and I entered some weird dimension where it seems like somebody smeared butter over my eyeballs and put a hood over my head. Not only that but the inventory is disabled and I cant load or save the game.