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There's a fix for that on the nexus. Try searching "level predator script fix" or lvlpredator maybe. I found it somehow. I never played enough yet to see any level predator crashes but I have the fix installed anyway.

Well, once I've finished my current SR install I will try with just the regular ENB profile. I have experimented with Unreal Cinema and noticed that it fixed a whole bunch of the shimmering/shadow issues but introduced many extra visual features I didn't like, I poured a lot of time into figuring out how to configure it (awkward wording I know) but I ended up still pretty unhappy with it overall. Do people use the ENBoost and binary (for fixes) without using an actual profile config from wherever? ENB is something I'm very new to still. I always used RCRN but I like CoT a bit better.

I'm still not sure I understand all this.

I really dislike All-in-One Face.

I actually really like the scary Dawnguard vampires so I never use retextures to make the faces look more, I dunno, CWish.

I use MO and SKSE also. My old problems were down to NMM. Changing up has led to many newer problems. I associate them with changes in the game version and my GPU since I last tried to play Skyrim (Feb 2013). All I know is, I've tried so many "solutions" that I've just wound up creating more problems. Grass shadows are on. I try not to play with shadow settings due to advice from STEP and other places. I may try turning off AA and just using ENB AA but do I have to turn it off in CCC as well as the game launcher/.ini files? That seems to trip me up a lot. Stuff doesn't work the way it's supposed to cuz instructions are never clear about that and I don't understand, maybe, what the baseline general policy is when messing with alternative sources for AA. Whether you turn this off to enable that is probably the general sort of thing "everybody knows" but is always missing from guides and such. Common sense? Maybe. I don't have it, then. :P

Yeah okay, but this never used to happen. It would seem like those would be constant problems since I started using this TV but that's not the case. These problems are RECENT and seem tied to changes I've made as per the list I gave of all the stuff I've been messing with since trying to fix other Skyrim-related graphical problems. If it's just native hardware flaws, shouldn't I have experienced issues earlier on? Skyrim used to run, graphically, like a dreamboat. Something changed between Feb 2013 and Aug 2013 (the gap between my last playthrough before getting back into it) with either Skyrim's version or my GPU driver versions (or both) which has created a bunch of issues I never used to have. Trying to solve them has caused additional problems and demanded that I get in very deep with settings and options and tools while learning how to use them on the fly. Maybe getting a new monitor is the solution. I just think that, before I go doing that, I should try and see if it COULD be something else given what I just told you. How do you explain why turning off ENBoost fixed the screen ripples? It seems like there's something off in my vsync and monitor refresh. Like maybe my video driver settings are wrong for the display. I don't have the foggiest but I sincerely doubt it's because of my hardware for the reasons I've given.

I missed this thread. I just posted about a similar issue. I do not have vsync disabled. It's enabled in skyrimprefs.ini but I still have the problem. This thread gives me an idea though...

As everybody knows (because I never stop having problems :P), I've been trying to make an install of Skyrim Revisited work. As everybody knows, sometimes trying to solve some problem, minor or otherwise, just creates more problems. I use a 32inch Samsung "generic PnP" monitor. It's a TV. I've had it for like 5 years and it's always been solid. As I've been trying to combat problems with transparency anti-aliasing, I have taken some steps: -using Skyrim configurator -calibrating monitor -installing Radeonpro -fiddling with settings in CCC (card is Radeon 6950) -installed 13.10 BETA CCC drivers which also comes with a beta display driver (so up to date, corruption unlikely unless there's an issue with the driver itself) What I am experiencing lately is a blur or ripple effect. It is not just Skyrim, but also other applications (I assume all games would be affected by this but haven't tested). I am noticing it in Skyrim and my browser. It manifests as horizontal waves rippling across the screen as an image pans or scrolls. This means that I notice it when scrolling with my mouse in, say, Firefox. I also notice it when turning around, especially moving the camera quickly or in odd angles, in Skyrim. I'm not sure if this is vsync as my Skyrimprefs.ini setting has vsync turned on. In CCC I've tried "always on, always off, on unless application specifies, off unless application specifies". Basically, all the settings. I've also tried triple buffering and various settings in Radeonpro with no effect. Needless to say, it's strange and obviously some kind of issue. Additional info: My monitor's native resolution is 1280x720 so I use that in general, including while playing Skyrim. I have tried other resolution settings but 1280x720 has always worked nicely for me. Setting it to 1920x1080 (max I can do) doesn't seem to have much of an effect except to make the text in the Console smaller. :P I haven't tried to see if it'll fix my screen rippling issue but I doubt it as it did not fix it with other general computer use. Plus, 1920x1080 looks terrible on this monitor on desktop, browser, etc. The refresh is 60hz, also. My card is not quite 2 years old and the cables are secure. I might try a different HDMI cable if someone suggests that (I've seen that tossed around on the net) but I really doubt that this will do anything. Like I said, this problem started when I began messing with graphics settings and programs in an effort to fix my transparency texture issues. EDIT: New development. I was using ENBoost and the other thread about screen rippling made me realize that this could be the issue. Sure enough I disabled ENBoost just to test and my rippling weirdness ceased. But. It's been replaced by a bizarre stuttering effect when I pan the camera, especially if I pan diagonally. It's not too bad unless I do that. There's definitely something wrong, though. Still. Sigh...

Not z-fighting. Just straight up bad anti-aliasing on transparent textures. So that would be stuff like edges of hair, fur, even decorative 3D parts of weapons, armor, and most architecture. It turns the visuals into a vibrating, shimmering mess. I've tried playing with AA settings plenty and can't seem to crack it except just reducing it some by returning to basically what my settings were before I started mucking around in the first place. I never used to have this problem with Skyrim and I do not believe it is mod (texture or otherwise) related. Could be a problem with the chain of executables from MO to SKSE to the launcher making my CCC settings fail to override. Playing with Radeonpro ALWAYS seems to be a bad time and I get some really funky effects. This is probably because I don't know what preparation I should be doing (like do I turn off CCC overrides and settings first? launcher? .ini? is Radeonpro's default settings the same as what the card is already doing anyway?). Recently, I've been seeing some weird pixelization and screen tearing but a reboot fixed that for my desktop and browsers which means my monitor isn't borked. I need to test Skyrim a bit more for those issues which I somehow created when trying to neutralize a massive FPS drop issue I was getting in exteriors. Nearox, as per that thread how do I turn off Ambient Occlusion?

ELFX+RCRN was what I used back before I found STEP. It was a glorious combination. Then some changes were made in both mods and it got less good. Now it seems like ELFX and a very vanilla-conscious ENB are the way to go. But I actually think ELFX still works very nicely without ENB.

My beautiful UNP neck was so seamed up that I'm sure every vampire in Tamriel suddenly found themselves with unexpected business in Akavir. Scary stuff.

Got any recommendations for transparency AA? I am having real problems with that and can't seem to get Supersampling or any other style of AA to smooth it out. Even the loading screen images flutter at me (where there's supposed to be transparent aliasing anyway) like it's disco time. This never used to happen. After my first SR install I thought it was a mod. Disabled and reinstalled the game and didn't fix so I figured some weird voodoo going on between launcher settings and my card. No joy there either. Have now been up and down these forums, all over the internet, and to the very depths of acronyms I no longer understand (all I see are Ms and As and Ss). One setting one place seems to clash with another setting somewhere else. It's a lot like I imagine doing alchemy was back in 1542 or so.

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that I messed something up with my vcard. I've installed the latest Beta (13.10) in an effort to fix it or overwrite any unwitting change but it hasn't helped. I have minor screen tearing/rippling when using browser and also in Skyrim. Something's wrong with my vsync or framerate or something but all my settings check out so I keep hitting brick walls. I really wish I could get some benefit out of all the tooling you've done, Nearox, but it doesn't seem to be in the cards (no pun intended) no matter how hard I try or how many guides I read.

This sounds promising but, uh, changing anything in radeonpro seems to turn all the textures in Skyrim into N64 level blobs of color and crap. Do I need to turn stuff off in CCC first or something? So many options in radeonpro...

I don't know for sure but enabling the SKSE .ini tweak "clearinvalidregistrations=1" may help. But really, the save could be borked and it's general practice not to uninstall any .esp in a save you're still using.

Yeah, I've looked at that but always shrugged at the fact that it was abandoned and only does a few models. It also isn't likely to fix my issues with beards, the missing wood elf hair, etc. That said, I really appreciate all the help. I wish this was one of the batteries of issues others had faced but it seems like something has gone very wrong on my rig when it comes to Skyrim.

I did all of the above. Nothing. In fact, Supersampling may have made it worse, even. Going to a place like Riften with all its wooden planks, roofs, and windows is a nightmare of shimmering/vibrating textures. Going to Markarth is more soothing since, for whatever reason, the rocks and so on don't have as dramatic a problem. Really, the only thing this fixed was the black lines around the fire (I suspect going down to 2 samples is what did that). Using Transparency AA and so on also caused this problem to come back, where before it only happens when I use Beards: https://i.imgur.com/5AwCial.png

Didn't test far enough to make sure of that, but didn't seem like it. I will check again. Also, I turned off AA and Anisotropic settings in the launcher when I did my testing if that makes any difference.

None of those settings seems to have made any difference whatsoever.

I've experimented with transparency AA in Skyrimprefs.ini and ended up with disappeared textures and the like. Did not try it w/ 2x AA though. I do not see Transparency AA as a setting in CCC under game profiles. Also, do I set 2x AA in the launcher or in CCC or both? By the way, I'm getting the black lines but ONLY on brazier fires (for example, the ones outside of Whiterun) with 4x AA on (which is supposed to fix the issue). Gahhhhh!

So it's all in one place, here is my imgur album collecting documentation of these issues. Pay special attention to pictures showing the glitches I've mentioned here: https://imgur.com/a/aJqaq

The hair may be an angle thing. I may have gotten so used to looking closely for issues that I'm seeing vanilla's limitations as some kind of glitch. Except, I don't think so. I remember having this "chunks of hair don't quite attach to head" issue before, caused by a hair mod. Back then, I did not use mod organizer and deleted the hair meshes in the data folder which fixed it. Now, there don't seem to be any installed hair meshes. Just the vanilla stuff. Now I run vanilla, and I have this problem as well as the wood elf missing face chunk problem which was an issue with Skyrim v1 (and yes, I made sure I'm running 1.9.32). In my latest bout of testing I was this close to deciding to just roll with a build anyway. That's after trying unsuccessfully to roll back my video drivers, use RadeonPro, SweetFX, etc. I use an AMD card so I'm not surprised you can't reproduce the issue on an Nvidia. Added to this, by the way, I noticed that one or two of the male facial hairs DON'T ATTACH TO THE FACE and the edges float off a bit, with transparent space just like with the hair but far more pronounced. Again, you can see it from certain angles. This goes alongside the weird poke-through effect I have with beards (when the Beards mod is installed especially). It looks like the vanilla hair and beards of my Skyrim characters are simply not properly attached to the faces. I am beyond frustrated AND I just lost my job to downsizing so now I just feel like deleting everything even associated with Skyrim. I've been trying to get this working for 3 weeks now and everything I've tried, every problem I've solved, and I am still fighting anti-aliasing problems I never used to have, this hair/beard wood elf issue, and flickering/shimmering shadows. I've googled til my eyes want to fall out of my head to no avail. Sorry to dump all this on you and STEP, Aiyen, but I am the definition of wits' end.

Nearox, I am going to try that setup. What should my CCC/game settings be for AA?

So further testing. USKP makes no difference, nor does trying different textures such as the high res DLC. I'm pretty sure it's anti-aliasing with my Radeon 6950 and the driver version I'm using.