Skyrim AE | Visual Noise/Shimmer on Textures

[Fifth1620]

Hi everyone! Hope you're having a good new year so far!

I picked up modding Skyrim (again) and was dismayed to see a bug I've been having for a couple of years still existing. There seems to be a consistent noise and shimmer to textures that's really distracting in-person.

My load order's getting larger and I have quite a few texture mods installed, along with Community Shaders, but I can confirm this effect appears in vanilla Skyrim as well, and has done since SE. I'm showing this with Community Shaders' Upscaling on and off because Upscaling both hides the far-off black shimmering that makes grass look horrific, and exacerbates the close-up noise that makes moving foliage feel like a dream sequence.

I found a similar topic on this forum Foliage noise/grain issue, but it was never answered. If someone has any more info on what causes this and how I could fix it, that'd be great!

Video of close up noise

Video of far off shimmer

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1 hour ago, Fifth1620 said:

Hi everyone! Hope you're having a good new year so far!

I picked up modding Skyrim (again) and was dismayed to see a bug I've been having for a couple of years still existing. There seems to be a consistent noise and shimmer to textures that's really distracting in-person.

My load order's getting larger and I have quite a few texture mods installed, along with Community Shaders, but I can confirm this effect appears in vanilla Skyrim as well, and has done since SE. I'm showing this with Community Shaders' Upscaling on and off because Upscaling both hides the far-off black shimmering that makes grass look horrific, and exacerbates the close-up noise that makes moving foliage feel like a dream sequence.

I found a similar topic on this forum Foliage noise/grain issue, but it was never answered. If someone has any more info on what causes this and how I could fix it, that'd be great!

Video of close up noise

Video of far off shimmer

It's impossible for me to see what you are actually referring to in your videos, because you keep bringing up the CS menu and console, so I don't have enough time to notice anything aside from those menus getting in the way. I really can't see any issues besides some of the grass shadows flickering.

Stabbing in the dark, I will guess that you are on a true 4K setup. This exposes issues that would otherwise go unnoticed. Use max/highest quality ambient occlusion, anisotropic filtering, and antialiasing. Avoid setting conflicting values in ENB/CS/gameINIs/video drivers. Use only one source, and disable in the others. Prefer CS/ENB sources.

Upscaling likely resolves, because you are looking at a lower resolution when you `upscale`.