Skyrim graphics troubles

[A10Troll]

hello all,

 

I'm posting here today because my skyrim game has significant graphical errors that lead to crashing, before I go farther my specs are below:

 

AMD FX 6300 @ 4.3 GHz

two powercolor R9 280x's in CROSSFIRE 

16gb ram

1 Tb hdd

850 watt psu

 

latest amd drivers (yes I'm sure)

 

now to elaborate on the glitches, they are green triangles that morph through walls and huge texture walls that look like huge translucent veils.

Every guide and suggestion online said either two things: my gpu is faulty or overheating (it is most definitely not), or my mods are conflicting with each other.

I do not have any mods installed and have done fresh installs of my game only to reach the same conclusion.

I have also disabled crossfire, lowered my graphics to minimum and still have not found a solution. 

 

If anybody could shed some light on this I'd truly appreciate it. 

 

 

[Bigheart]

2 hours ago, A10Troll said:

hello all,

 

I'm posting here today because my skyrim game has significant graphical errors that lead to crashing, before I go farther my specs are below:

 

AMD FX 6300 @ 4.3 GHz

two powercolor R9 280x's in CROSSFIRE 

16gb ram

1 Tb hdd

850 watt psu

 

latest amd drivers (yes I'm sure)

 

now to elaborate on the glitches, they are green triangles that morph through walls and huge texture walls that look like huge translucent veils.

Every guide and suggestion online said either two things: my gpu is faulty or overheating (it is most definitely not), or my mods are conflicting with each other.

I do not have any mods installed and have done fresh installs of my game only to reach the same conclusion.

I have also disabled crossfire, lowered my graphics to minimum and still have not found a solution. 

 

If anybody could shed some light on this I'd truly appreciate it. 

 

 

perhaps your cpu is having instability issues. you are oc, correct?

 

[A10Troll]

1 minute ago, Bigheart said:

perhaps your cpu is having instability issues. you are oc, correct?

 

that's an excellent point, I cannot believe I didn't think about that. However, I do play quite a few other games like fallout 4 war thunder etc and have had no issues with oc instability. I will try booting at a lower frequency and get back to you if that worked out.

[Bigheart]

1 hour ago, A10Troll said:

that's an excellent point, I cannot believe I didn't think about that. However, I do play quite a few other games like fallout 4 war thunder etc and have had no issues with oc instability. I will try booting at a lower frequency and get back to you if that worked out.

sounds good bud. best of luck. 

[Aereldor]

Dial back your overclock and install at least the Unofficial Skyrim Patch- it contains stability fixes as well as countless bug fixes.

[A10Troll]

7 minutes ago, Bigheart said:

sounds good bud. best of luck. 

Hmmm doesn't seem to have fixed it. any other ideas?

[Bigheart]

2 hours ago, A10Troll said:

Hmmm doesn't seem to have fixed it. any other ideas?

how do you know that your gpu isnt freaking out? it might not be overheating, but something else could be wrong. have you taken benchmarks with it before?

[A10Troll]

4 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Dial back your overclock and install at least the Unofficial Skyrim Patch- it contains stability fixes as well as countless bug fixes.

Ok I downloaded and installed that mod you suggested but still nada, Again though i lowered clock speeds and still experiencing issues. I also found a fellow with the same cpu at 4.4 Ghz and he seemed to be running the game perfectly. I know every overclock can be different but it does give me some hopes it's not my OC.

 

[A10Troll]

1 minute ago, Bigheart said:

how do you know that your gpu isnt freaking out? it might not be overheating, but something else could be wrong. have you taken benchmarks with it before?

Ya I have done benchmarks like unigine valley and such with no issues. 

[Bigheart]

1 hour ago, A10Troll said:

Ya I have done benchmarks like unigine valley and such with no issues. 

have you done them since these issues started? if not, run them again and see if you have a reduced score or if you crash out. that can help pinpoint a problem. 

[A10Troll]

Just now, Bigheart said:

have you done them since these issues started? if not, run them again and see if you have a reduced score or if you crash out. that can help pinpoint a problem. 

will do

[A10Troll]

benchmark went well and no serious drop in score was encountered, temps were adequate as well. I'm starting to think this is a driver issue with amd but I'm not sure. I've even done fresh reinstall of graphics drivers to no avail.  

[Aereldor]

9 minutes ago, A10Troll said:

Ok I downloaded and installed that mod you suggested but still nada, Again though i lowered clock speeds and still experiencing issues. I also found a fellow with the same cpu at 4.4 Ghz and he seemed to be running the game perfectly. I know every overclock can be different but it does give me some hopes it's not my OC.

I suppose you're right, but have you tested your overclock for stability? He might have run his at a higher voltage to ensure a more stable overclock. 

However, now that I think of it, those sound more like GPU issues. Skyrim is  DirectX 9 game, and I don't know how the latest NVidia drivers are behaving with it. I do know that my GTX 960 did have weird flashing orbs of light with some drivers, and not with others.

[Bigheart]

2 hours ago, A10Troll said:

benchmark went well and no serious drop in score was encountered, temps were adequate as well. I'm starting to think this is a driver issue with amd but I'm not sure. I've even done fresh reinstall of graphics drivers to no avail.  

maybe. perhaps try an older driver that you had no problems with and see how that goes.

 

[A10Troll]

Just now, Bigheart said:

maybe. perhaps try an older driver that you had no problems with and see how that goes.

 

I'm sorry i forgot to mention i did in fact roll back to previous drivers already and had no effect

[Bigheart]

1 hour ago, A10Troll said:

I'm sorry i forgot to mention i did in fact roll back to previous drivers already and had no effect

well wtf. i have no idea whats wrong. i wish i could help you, but this seems to be beyond my limited knowledge.

[A10Troll]

2 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

I suppose you're right, but have you tested your overclock for stability? He might have run his at a higher voltage to ensure a more stable overclock. 

However, now that I think of it, those sound more like GPU issues. Skyrim is  DirectX 9 game, and I don't know how the latest NVidia drivers are behaving with it. I do know that my GTX 960 did have weird flashing orbs of light with some drivers, and not with others.

Ya I really don't see any other solution, may just have to wait for an update or try a different voltage on the oc like you said.

[A10Troll]

1 minute ago, Bigheart said:

well wtf. i have no idea whats wrong. i wish i could help you, but this seems to be beyond my limited knowledge.

hahhaha it's no issue I appreciate the help, it wasn't useless at all!

[Aereldor]

2 minutes ago, A10Troll said:

Ya I really don't see any other solution, may just have to wait for an update or try a different voltage on the oc like you said.

If you haven't tested your overclock for stability with benchmarking programs, do that right away before changing anything. Validation should be your first priority, and most people do that immediately after overclocking. 

However, it seems like you don't have any issues with other games, so it's very unlikely. This has to be a software or a GPU/GPU driver issue.

What version of the game do you have installed? I remember the Steam version receiving a few patches which might or might not have been included in official Bethesda updates.

[A10Troll]

3 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

If you haven't tested your overclock for stability with benchmarking programs, do that right away before changing anything. Validation should be your first priority, and most people do that immediately after overclocking. 

However, it seems like you don't have any issues with other games, so it's very unlikely. This has to be a software or a GPU/GPU driver issue.

What version of the game do you have installed? I remember the Steam version receiving a few patches which might or might not have been included in official Bethesda updates.

I don't know what version of the game that's installed, I am positive the game is up to date but enlighten me on how to check the version.

[ThomasD]

Try pulling one GPU and see what happens.

[ThomasD]

On 4/13/2016 at 0:32 AM, A10Troll said:

I don't know what version of the game that's installed, I am positive the game is up to date but enlighten me on how to check the version.

Start the game, hit esc to bring up the Save/Load screen and it will be a watermark down in the lower left corner of that panel.