Hello to you, allmighty and allknowing forumers.

I come to you in my time of need...

Since, well, two days, around that, (since I installed a few old games and had a AMD driver update in fact), my skyrim has loads of issues.

I do not know whether it comes from the quest I'm currently doing being known for its graphical bug (thats' the Labyrinthian quest for the College) (I don't think so), from a software graphical problem (either from the game or the drivers), or if it's something to do with the hardware and my graphical card.

Here's King annoyance and it's court :

- I often (more often than I could ever remember) have problems with fog (mostly inside dungeons) where it would flicker, like micro-disappearances and comebacks. Like once or twice every second, whether I am moving my camera or character or not (though it does so more often while moving).

- I sometimes have loading screens with the fog getting very one-color like, like someone used a paint bucket to replace the fog, and the colors vary from cyan, to magenta, to full black. It hides most of the object floating around and hides the message.

- the lighting is degenerate in dungeons (especially the room in Labyrinthian where one fight the dragon priest).

- waterfalls have the same flickering issue as the fogs and brumes.

- torches and other sources of light sometimes micro-unlight-light and it sometimes hurt the eye.

- some particles have clear problems in game : the staff of Magnus gets a full black or full white intermitant circle at its top, and Morokei gets colored in red, yellow or blue (like one opaque thingy) sometimes, and that's always changing.

- I sometimes manage to pause in the middle of bugfilled action, to have psychedelic visions of squares and triangles full of uniform bright colors, as if I had been watching in a wall with clipping issues in other games.

That's for the problem. I'm no expert, and thought you might help me.

I reinstalled my AMD drivers to see if that was where the problem came from : short answer : NO CHANGE.

I tried getting either low graphic quality in the starting menu to see any difference : no effect on the above troubles. Likewise, I tried putting everything to the max, but I did not notice any difference either.

I can assure you my graphic card and PC are all but good for playing that game at the setting I like without any lag, usually, for it had been so for quite some time now.

I hope whoever responds to that thread has any insight on what the problem is, and where it comes from. Maybe I am not the only one in that situation too.

Anyway, thanks for reading this.

If all this started happening after updating your drivers...... get some utility like Driver Cleaner, boot into safe mode, remove ALL the current drivers, then install something a bit older. (like the version you were using that did NOT cause issues.)