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This is the closest to my TV https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-LN32D450-32-Inch-Black-MODEL/dp/B004NZBC5A Here's a link to the manual https://www.manualowl.com/p/Samsung/LN32A450C1D/Manual/79521

TV is a Samsung (60hertz refresh, btw) that is recommended at 1360x768 as I said earlier. The model code is LN32A45OC1DXZC, Version AA04. I really believe I could fix this if I could get ENBoost's "borderless window" function to keep my AA/resolution (not presently sure which) stable. I just don't know enough about how ENB works to tinker it back into shape.

Hi. I play Skyrim according to STEP core. I have a 32inch Samsung TV as a monitor (which may be the problem here). I also have an AMD Radeon 6950. My trouble is that the combination of relatively low-refresh screen and AMD card means I get the jittery graphics/framerate thing when I pan the camera diagonally.I tried Borderless Windows but that means lowering to native resolution, which is 1360x768 (I usually play in 1920x1080) and this causes my AA to go haywire with texture flicker and shadow issues that I do not want. If I use the ENBoost solution, same thing.I just do not know how to fix this and could use some help.

Is Alternate Start really an issue? I love that mod, it may be one of my favorites. Would hate to have to give it up.

Isn't Better Vanilla Hairs abandoned? Doesn't it only cover four out of over a dozen hairs?

Default shadow settings are a problem so far. As a result, I'm trying some .ini tweaks for just that to try and reduce the last baseline graphical problem I have: flickering med. distance shadows.

Man, I've done it all. I was following SR to begin with and because I was unused to vanilla, I didn't even notice the problems I had until I was done an SR install. Then I stripped everything down to vanilla and some weird issues, especially with hair meshes (or something) remained. Same with the texture/shadow shimmering. The shadow stuff is just some .ini tweak issues (tweaks I never did since joining STEP but used to use before) that I experimented with and sorted out. None of the stuff STEP or Neo say about AMD cards seems to do much good. I have to override with CCC to make AA work at all, otherwise it's glittering specular maps and jaggies like the day is long. I've posted robustly about the issues I've had and received a lot of friendly advice and tips, but very little of it panned out. Nearox has the same card so his knowledge and experience have been invaluable.

Could be directed at me? I keep wondering when people are gonna get tired of my ****. Hilariously, I switched HDMI ports on my tv-monitor and it has helped mitigate some of the problems I was having. This is something that I did by accident and it NEVER would have occurred to me normally. Before switching, videocard settings seemed to have little effect on display quality but now everything is working as it's supposed to.

Hey man, I know that feel. In my case it's baseline graphics problems that finally killed me. I don't know whether it's drivers, Skyrim, or what but I can't even get vanilla to run satisfactorily (AA problems, shimmering objects, etc). If I try the usual solutions I just end up with more problems. Radeonpro supposedly changes registry files (not sure if this is true) so now I feel like trying to fix Skyrim has hooped my rig. Wouldn't you know it but I have the same graphical issues, to one extent or another, in every game I have now. Nothing was wrong with my card or settings BEFORE I got into the deep modding. Makes me miss when I whistled a jaunty tune, clicked through the "this save is reliant on mods no longer installed" warning, added and dropped broken, dirty edited, and snipped mods in Nexus Mod Manager with nary a hiccup in actual gameplay, and so on. STEP is such a great community when they've seen an issue before or there's an established familiarity with a feature, tool, or mod. Everybody tries to be helpful. There's just black holes in the knowledge about the mechanics of these machines, I guess. Who knows. Even Bethesda told me to run the game in administrator, close background programs, and update my video drivers. So nobody knows nothing, I feel like. Too bad learning that wrecked my machine.

Update: I have reinstalled again. This time with my drivers rolled back to CCC 12.10. I still have the same flickering, AA, shadow, and hair issues. Wood Elf is still missing his patch of hair. What the bad words? How can this be the vanilla install of Skyrim for me? It just doesn't make sense. Is Steam cacheing files or something? How can I delete this whole thing off my computer, reinstall it, and get these same errors?

I do not have the patience to do that right now. Besides, if transparency lighting stuff shows up in nifskope then it might look the same. I mean, transparency and lighting may very well be the actual problem.

The only thing my friend has in common with my setup is that we're both using AMD cards. I have a 6950 and he has a 6970. He's pretty confident that nothing changed except that he installed ApachiiSkyHair and that now his vanilla game has the same hair issues I do. I have looked at some older screenshots where I was using AOF and there WAS some scrappy texture lines and so on in there, not TOO different from my issue. Now, though, if I install AOF or any other hair retexture things get ridiculous. My next order of business is to reinstall my GPU drivers following a guide I found for complete AMD driver removal (apparently AMD doesn't make it easy but this is the internet so there are ways). I don't know what you mean about renaming my Skyrim directory but that may also be worth a try. I assume that the jist is to install a completely different instantiation of the game? I'm not sure how to do that/what it will accomplish. I guess it would prove whether or not there's something lingering from before.

Okay so a couple of things: 1. A friend installed ApachiiSkyHair and now has the same problem as me. I do not know why I still have it in vanilla. Now he does too. How could ApachiiSkyHair corrupt a vanilla reinstall after you've deleted every trace of it from your system? 2. Of course I followed the STEP uninstall guide. 3. Other games work fine. Even graphically demanding games like Planetside 2. Because I turned my AA settings on my CC off in the general system setting, it has some weird AA just like Skyrim did. This suggests to me that it's either my CCC settings or the card or the drivers. 4. It possibly being the drivers is a distinct possibility but I'm scared to reinstall the drivers as the last time I tried that, CCC did not want to reinstall the display driver. Luckily, a computer reboot cleared that up but I had more issues so I tried the latest BETA. AMD apparently doesn't make it easy for you to uninstall all their crap. Also, CCC comes with a pile of extra utilities and **** that I don't understand and am therefore afraid to not install. 5. I am not getting any of the usual reported problems that signal the death of a graphics card and checking on how its running doesn't yield any strange results. At this time, I do not believe my hardware is failing. 6. I did try reinstalling DirectX before I deleted Skyrim itself. I am not sure if DirectX is the issue. It would not surprise me but nor would it explain why I'm having AA issues in other games, would it? A year ago, I would have been the first person in line to sing the praises of the PC as a gaming platform. This experience has reminded me that it's not always beautiful graphics and better performance. Companies we rely on for 3rd party software to allow us to do x, y, and z often seem to place obstacles in our path that no amount of ingenuity or community experience can always overcome. Nobody has any answers on this. Just the usual obvious stuff that I've tried and tried again. Being unable to problems in vanilla was just the last straw for me after 4 weeks of troubleshooting and testing just to be able to play the game modded again (never used to be this bad at all and I've always modded). I get a lot of platitudes around the forums and places I've sought answers for this, stuff like "that's what you get when you mod a game" or whatever. Part of the reason this is such a dealbreaker for me is because a lot of the crap I thought was mods was really just something wrong or different about my initial setup. And I have no idea what or where to start. The only thing to do is reinstall the video drivers, as has been suggested. One more thing to burn time learning to do, then doing it, and hoping it works out. I get why that's necessary. I've just been doing so much of it for so long now that I'm really tired.

I don't really understand how I could download a game from Steam as if I'd just bought it and the patches aren't installing correctly. How much sense does that make? It's not like I download Skyrim v1.0 and then all the subsequent patches and DLC download procedurally. It all comes at once. That said, there is an odd issue where if I reinvalidate the Steam archive there is ALWAYS 1 file missing that needs to be reacquired. I've read that this is just a harmless bug but you never really know.

I've definitely messed with my card (settings) in an effort to fix these problems. But it should only be to the extent of a Skyrim profile in CCC (I use a Radeon, Garfink... and yes I followed the STEP guide which left me with the same problems anyhow). I deleted that profile but Skyrim acts exactly the same (bad AA, hair issues). My GPU is not overclocked. I installed BETA drivers to see if it made a difference but it didn't. To me, this hair issue SHOULD BE FIXABLE. It's that it isn't on top of all the other more serious issues (texture flickering/shimmering and AA issues) that are NOT mod-related which have me so frustrated and throwing in the towel. I guess it was more like a tipping over point than a serious game-breaking issue. If it was caused by some mod, I would have ignored it and kept looking for a solution. However, it's not caused by a mod so that's out. I did not optimize my meshes. I certainly haven't optimized since reinstalling. My first thought was that it was a bad mesh from a mod. I checked. No. Second thought was optimization or something. Checked and no. Then I ran vanilla as a test and the same problem is there. It's something else I changed and have not changed back (unintentionally obviously since I have no idea what it could be). I've checked my GPU's stress level with MSI Afterburner and the temperature is fine which indicates that it probably isn't a heat issue or some card malfunction. Please remember that I've said constantly that I never used to have these problems. It was only after coming back to Skyrim after a hiatus (during which the game updated and so did my GPU drivers) that I've discovered this. Issues like the Wood Elf hair missing goes right back to Skyrim 1.0. The original Bethesda pics of the Wood Elf head and hair styles had this problem. It was corrected sometime later. I do not understand why I've got it but I think it is connected to all the other issues.

Latest update: I pretty much lost my patience totally and tried deleting every single Skyrim related folder, file, tool, utility, mod, etc on my computer. Everything. Then I reinstalled and launched vanilla. Still missing hair mesh or whatever is going on here. Still graphic errors like flickering transparency in textures, etc. Screw this game.

I didn't optimize the meshes. I optimized textures only as per Skyrim Revisited. And yes, (I think I've said this multiple times) the problem persists in Vanilla if Skyrim is launched through the TESV.exe or launcher. At this point, I would think that deleting the meshes and shaders .bsa files and then getting Steam to redownload them would be a possible solution. Except for the fact that I did a complete reinstall of Skyrim and it didn't help.

https://i.imgur.com/LYWM6dk.png Ah, now the khajiit are afflicted. This is with Coverkhajiits but the problem is also there but a little less extreme in vanilla. This is vanilla. It looks better only because the rest of the khajiit texture is less detailed. Something is going on with my head meshes or something. https://i.imgur.com/SuRF9dl.png

Since I've never updated MO before, I'll take a look at the nexus page for it and see what it says as far as instructions. I'm a bit nervous but I'll come back to this thread if I have any issues. What kind of bugs are ironed out re: installing mods?

Dang. RCRN is sounding better and better.

I'm using 13.10 BETA but this also happened with 13.4 (CCC drivers). Which display driver I'm using seems to be irrelevant. I am wondering if it's some kind of issue with my Skyrim-Meshes.bsa or Skyrim-Shaders.bsa. Almost everybody who sees these pictures says it's a mesh problem. I can't figure that out because I am, so far as I can tell, using vanilla meshes. Could it be caused by a faulty optimization? It's difficult to notice on NPCs only because you're usually not that close up to them. If you get close enough by changing FOV settings or using the Face to Face mod, it seems to affect them as well. Not the apachii hairs though as I don't use them for NPCs.

Oh no, that I get. I just don't understand why there are two different versions in parallel development, one with a higher version number than the other. I run v0.99.1 and it's been plenty stable for me. With all the other issues I've been having, messing with MO is not high on my priority list. If 99.6 is the the most stable and has extra things, do you recommend upgrading?

I've been reporting hair and beard issues on STEP forums for over a week now with very little help or attention. I've posted about this elsewhere as well. Either no one knows what causes this or no one else has ever had this issue. If the latter, I figure it's probably a good idea to further document my troubles. So far I've shown vanilla hair and beards. Here are some examples from apachiiskyhair, a hair mod we are probably all familiar with. Needless to say at this point, I am DESPERATE to fix this problem. Because the mod uses somewhat different, more exaggerated layering and texture style, it's easier to see (with some styles) what I've been trying to show. Something, either a mesh issue or a texture issue, is causing there to be a "missing" or transparent effect on hair styles which leads to a sort of hollow or see through effect. In the vanilla hairs, this is readily apparent with patches of hair that don't connect properly to the underlying hair texture, making it look as if they are floating slightly away from the rest of the hair. Apachiiskyhair affords me the opportunity to show some dramatic variations of the EXACT SAME PROBLEM. Please note, this is not a problem associated with this mod. The problem persists. Even without this mod. Even with, as far as I know, an entire vanilla reinstall of Skyrim. I am not sure how I initially caused this issue. I have heard from the author of Beards that it is a "shader problem" which seems to cause a layering issue with beards as well. I've been collecting examples in an imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/aJqaq The last few, the apachii hairs, are as follows: https://i.imgur.com/ucdB1Dh.png https://i.imgur.com/Q99BekJ.png https://i.imgur.com/3AtiMAb.png (my favorite of all modded male hairstyles, btw... now completely unusable) https://i.imgur.com/kaY1Iac.png And a good example of the issue from another vanilla hair example: https://i.imgur.com/XdCZ2CY.png Here are some with the SR recommended retextures from More Realistic Hairs and Superior Lore-Friendly Hair 2k (Rough): https://i.imgur.com/hRVhCdx.png https://i.imgur.com/Rg6ydHt.png https://i.imgur.com/8b7Efpg.png (this one shows a weird shadow effect where shadows from the background extend to the head of a character being created at the Helgen vanilla creation point) https://i.imgur.com/GNkNKpJ.png https://i.imgur.com/GTomN2i.png https://i.imgur.com/OV6rPzA.png https://i.imgur.com/Q1cUQIe.png As always, thanks for any help from the community. I've gotten very little response on this issue which leads me to believe that no one knows what's going on. I really hope someone will help me get to the bottom of it as weeks of searching have only revealed the same old hair problems due to improper installations, mod incompatibilities, etc. I haven't seen anything out there for problems like these. I do think that my issues with beards and hair are almost certainly related. I think it is also possible that my issues with transparency aliasing and texture shimmering (only textures with transparency) may ALSO be related but this seems unlikely due to Nearox corroborating the latter issues but not reporting issues with hair (he has the same GPU as I do).

There are a few ENBs that do fine with CoT or were designed with it in mind. Don't know about recent ones.

Ruvaak Dahmaan seemed to have weird installation. I did check it out per your recommendation in a different thread. I think ENB does help with a lot of issues. Unreal Cinema needed its Bloom checked (cuz it wrecked) and I had weird issues with strobing sun effects and so on. Tinkering produced a version of the preset that I liked but other issues led me to reinstall and abandon ENB for now. Until I understand it better. Now with my TV/monitor displaying dots (not random ones, but in a pixel-like pattern across the screen), I'm about ready to tear out my hair.