torminater

NEW UPDATE: I have tried the Skyrim Special Edition, and there seems to be no more z-fighting for me. As if that is linked to the fixes towards the shadow processing or has something to do with the new 64bit engine, I cannot say for sure. If you have further insight, please share below. OLD post: I am still working on my fix, as it does not solve all of the z-fighting and there is a performance drop of about 0-8 FPS. Further testing is therefore welcomed! For the original little fix head over here ! For the guide (WIP) against z-fighting head over here ! Hey folks, at the moment I'm fiddeling around with nvidia inspector, skyrim ini and prefs to get rid of black circles on mid-distant terrain, reduce z-fighting as much as possible and eliminate texture shimmering if possible. I don't remember if z-fighting has been such a big problem for me before the last drivers update, but now it really gets on my case. It's only visible on very distant mountain sides but in a large area. The good thing is, if it's cloudy I don't notice it as much. The bad thing is, if it's sunny all of the great graphics cannot overshine the flashing mountains in the Background. Texture shimmering is annoying but it's on the very end of my 2dolist. What annoys me know the most is this black circles glitch. I just can't find the setting that causes me all that trouble. It is very prominent and extremely disturbing. Reading through this forum I stumbled upon a lot of threads that were highly interesting and revealed that there are a whole lot of bright minds around. I guess if STEP tries to make Skyrim an unforgettable experience, then it should include some details about very common bugs and glitches as those three I'm referring to. If anyone of you guys knows any tricks considering them I would be too glad to try them out! I have had problems with artifacts probably caused by too much graphic mods and ini tweaks (no ugrids changes whatsoever...) My rig is the following: Crucial m4 SSD 128GB, 2.5" Samsung EcoGreen F4 1500GB Intel Core i7-2600K, 4x 3.40GHz Kingston ValueRAM DIMM Kit 8GB 2 x Gainward GeForce GTX 570 Phantom, 1.25GB GDDR5 SLI ASRock P67 Extreme4 Corsair Professional Series Gold AX750 750W All drivers are absolutely up2date. By all means I should be able to run Skyrim without problems. So far that doesn't work out... EDIT: Those Black Circles seem only to pop up in the lower half of the screen o_O but somewhat diagonal... maybe cuz of the Sun angle? I found out how to remove them: fShadowBiasScale=0.1500 revert to fShadowBiasScale=0.2500 in SkyrimPrefs.ini There are still black stripes on some rocks and mountainsides. they disappear from the center the closer you come...

well i got the same problem several weeks ago. all up2date drivers. i guess i'll start cleaning my whole desktop case. that stress test got me up to 97°C max gpu temp. i took all maxed out settings 8xmsaa, fullscreen, dynamic background, burn-in, xtreme-burn-in, post fx, I got 2 GTX 570 in SLI-mode... i really do hope that they aren't dying away. :s