Watery Outline Behind Weapons in 1st-Person

Post » Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:51 am

Hey all,

Like the title says I'm experiencing http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l559/Whitelion1284/ScreenShot2.png in dungeons, an odd, blurry shimmering when my weapons are framed by water. I don't know what causes it but I can confirm that:

  • it persists regardless of AA settings (tested incrementally from maximum to off)
  • It persists even when all mods have been disabled and both skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini have been deleted and recreated through the launcher (tested in embershard mine with test character from qasmoke)
  • It persists even when ALL iblurDeferredShadowMask settings are reduced to 0
  • It persists with first person near distance set to 0

Which exhausts all the possible solutions I can find online. So, aah, yeah. I'm getting a bit confused.

My rig:

i5 4690k @ 4.5ghz

Asus Z97-A MB w/ 8gb ddr3 RAM

Seta 6 HD

2x2GB Radeon 7870 ghz edition (only using 1 GPU) using the latest driver I can download from AMD: CCO 14.1, I believe.

If anyone can help me I'd sure like to get rid of that oddity. It's somewhat jarring.

Thanks.

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liz barnes
 
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Post » Sat Jul 26, 2014 11:22 pm

In Skyrim.ini, modify the line:

[Display]

fNear1stPersonDistance=2.0000

The default setting is 5.000, I set it to 2.000 and it's better in my game.

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Charles Mckinna
 
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Post » Sat Jul 26, 2014 9:55 pm

Wow. I'd added that setting to skyrimprefs.ini and it didn't work. I thought I'd tried it in skyrim.ini just to be sure but upon closer inspection I'd accidentally used " - " instead of " = "

So, ah, yeah! This is me saying thank you. Thank you very much. That did, in fact, do the trick.

(I am now grinning from ear to ear.)

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D LOpez
 
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