I started having texture problems Sunday night playing off-disc. I first noticed some extremely bland textures on the plaques along the 7,000 stairs up to High Hrothgar that would pop in whenever I would trigger them. I had never installed the game, nor had I had any texture related issues up until this point (aside from random water effects popping in and out, which reloading fixed). I do a manual save in front of one of the bland plaques and give my system some downtime. A few hours later I restart, clear my cache and proceed to reload my save. Not only are all of the plaques still bland and muddy, but so are all of the snow-covered rocks, or really any stone objects in my game around me at this point. I enter the temple and the textures look even worse (it's mostly stone floors and walls). After triggering the usual first-time dialogue I follow the Greybeards out back and the snowy rocks on the floor just outside the door look so bad they are almost luminescent. I just want to stress that up until this point I hadn't even considered installing this game because after (hopefully) reading these forums they will realize that this is happening off-disc as well.

After this, I promptly moved my saves to a USB stick and deleted the Skyrim related stuff from my HDD. I then swapped out my HDDs, formatted and cleared the cache on my old one just for this game. Updated and started a new game hoping my textures would be fixed. Not at all. The intro looks so much worse when the dirt and stone near the chopping block are all but indistinguishable from each other and doing that weird pixelated dance bad textures do. It's even worse in the Keep, where there is moss all over the floors and walls that looks blocky and bad. The stone walls that some of the buildings have look plastic and shiny and anything and everything looks really bad up close. Even the initial loading screen with Alduin looks really bad, the wings and claws have a bland muddy texture, as does most of his body. What I found odd about this was that the word wall he rests on was pretty sharp, in that I could make out what was carved into it, and it actually looked like it loaded properly.

Even weirder still, 1.2 has improved my textures slightly, but only while installed to my HDD, something I had never done before, even though this was supposedly only an issue when installing. By no means does my game look like it did before any of this (everything still looks really bad up close and a lot of clothes and armor lack fine textures), but there has been improvement in that some grass textures look really nice again and the stone/dirt paths look SOMEWHAT nicer. And when I say everything looks bad up close, I mean EVERYTHING, wood, trees, flowers, ingredients that rendered really well before, it's all just a bland mess now. That's about it.

another problem, even if i go to the favorites menu and equip lets say iron armor, it instantly turns blurry, and so does the characters hands and weapons too. And every time i get a close up of my char when his face seems to have a totally different color compared to the body, equip hide armor for example and you will know what i'm talking about, same thing happens with the hands, it looks like a blurry mess but when you look at the forearm it is sometimes properly defined, don't avoid this bethesda the texture issue is still going on as you see so GSTAFF update that on the what we are working on thread, instead of ignoring it completely and saying the 1.2 patch fixes this very problem which most certantly does not.

Bug.

Before Quest " Diplomatic Immunity"

Dragon attack on whiterun ( Random ) Killed dragon got soul.


Belethors shop is now closed and locked perminately. Has been for 1 month game time tried at several different times durng the day. He Has just disapeared..


Noticed After patch 1.2, today


7th play through since launch. 1st time seen this happen.

I cannot remove the Elder Scroll, and it weighs 20.., is there something I need to do?

1.2 Glitch that wasnt occuring prior.

Random Dragon Attack on Rverwood killed Faendal ( was not a follower ) and Alvor the Blacksmith.