I've noticed after starting 3 or 4 new games just in the past week, that I usually have no problems whatsoever for the first few hours of gameplay. But once i complete the barrowblight location for the golden hand and start exploring out in the wilderness, i'll start getting occasional CTD's and sometimes start seeing some purple textures. If i relaunch the game, the purple textures will disappear for a while, but then i'll get another CTD not too long after. I'm using both EnBoost and and SSME to try and help with memory, nexus mod manager with mods exclusively from nexus, and using LOOT for load order. I have used tes5edit for cleaning dirty plugins on those that the authors made no mention as being an issue to do. I am running the game in ultra settings with a fair amount of mods. I'm wondering if I'm using too many texture mods or if the Loot load order might be off a bit? If anyone sees any glaring issue, please give me some feedback on this. Thanks in advance!

computer spec: Processor: Intel? Core? i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM, GTX960 4 gig graphics card

load order: (active plugins = 176, active mods = 148)

GameMode=Skyrim

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ETaC - RESOURCES.esm=1
TKChildren.esm=1
SkyTEST-RealisticAnimals&Predators.esm=1
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Footprints.esp=1
Better Stealth AI for Followers.esp=1
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3DNPC.esp=1
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Skyrim Immersive Creatures.esp=1
Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp=1
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Purple textures before a crash is indicative of Vram issues, though wtih 4GB that really shouldn't be an issue. Download http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/6491/? and take a look at whats going on there.

Hi Blackjack, thanks for the reply. It's funny you should mention that; I did watch Gopher's youtube video on the monitor and followed his instructions on how to download and set it up. However, once I launch Skyrim from within Monitor, it just opens up the game normally but there is no sign of monitor working and there are no data results recorded in it. I gave up after a while. Any theories or speculations on my setup is always welcome.

Purple textures in the game are actually "untextured". Whenever the game can't find (or can't load) a certain texture, you'll see the raw, purple geometry underneath. This is usually a result of a missing texture or a texture file put in the wrong directory. What you're describing, however, seems to indicate that these textures do draw. It's only after a while that random textures start appearing purple. Correct?

If so, that could be a result of a mod conflict (likely, a pile-up of bad scripts that eventually eat up too many CPU/GPU cycles and start causing general weirdness). Or it could be indicative of a bad sector on one of your VRAM chips. You should be able to do a system memory check to see if everything is okay.

Used to happen a lot with a 1GB card I used to have access to it regularly hit the Vram limit, the engine basically gave up loading textures, went purple and subsequently CTD'd.

@OP: try compressing the textures with DDSopt or Optimizer Textures and free up some Vram. (Strange its happening with a 4GB card if so)

If you are seeing purple (or black textures) while playing Skyrim, you have either corrupted or missing textures.

• Verify the game cache. This can be done in steam by right-clicking on Skyrim in the Library list, clicking on Properties, and then navigating to the Local Files tab. Once there, click on the Verify Integrity of the Game Cache button. Remember that if you are using Skyrim Unplugged, this will fail to work.

• Uninstall and reinstall any texture DLCs or mods that you have.

• If the problem still persists, it may be that the mod or DLC was corrupted during downloading. Simply re-download and reinstall the mod or DLC that you suspect of containing the corrupted texture file.

I would start with that !!!

I doubt it is an issue with missing or corrupted textures as they show up fine for the OP when loading a save and the issue comes up after playing for a while - and they are fine again if reloading the save. Seems memory related rather IMO. As the OP has 4GB VRAM, I'd probably start out with checking the ENBoost settings.

Thanks all for the responses, you've given me some good ideas for troubleshooting-starting points. I'll give these a shot!