Occasionally missing textures and CTD, probably running out of memory?

[KBoom]

Since I followed and installed STEP v2.2.9 Extended most of the time my Skyrim seems to work well, however I noticed that after some time I'll get missing textures.

This is particularly more common while in Riften, it seems to be more graphically/texture intensive than most places.

 

What happens is that sometimes textures will be missing and the objects will show a purple-ish color (NPC clothes are commonly affected, also happens to weapons)

If I exit to main menu and load the game in the same point the texture will load correctly.

Also, when loading new areas I'll get CTDs sometimes.

 

I think I'm running out of memory.

What would be the best advice, which mods I can disable or use even lower resolution versions that might change/fix this?

 

My specs:

• Core i5 2500K
• 8GB DDR3
• GeForce GTX 670 2GB

 

 

[TechAngel85]

Sounds like you've not set up ENBoost and SKSE memory tweaks correctly. Revisit those pages on the Guide and make sure everything was followed precisely.

[GunerX]

if you see PURPLE armor/characters/whatever, you have the .NIF file of that item but not the TEXTURE. Reinstall all your stuff and make sure it actually installs everything correctly.

[KBoom]

Sounds like you've not set up ENBoost and SKSE memory tweaks correctly. Revisit those pages on the Guide and make sure everything was followed precisely.

I do not like/use ENB because of the performance hit. I thought I didn't have to install it. But it seems I assumed wrong. I'll install it and see how it goes.

 

As for SKSE patch I believe this is it: https://wiki.step-project.com/Skyrim_Script_Extender#Recommendations

And it's set correctly.

 

 

 

 

if you see PURPLE armor/characters/whatever, you have the .NIF file of that item but not the TEXTURE. Reinstall all your stuff and make sure it actually installs everything correctly.

It's not permanent or always the same object shown purple. Sometimes a single random or some random objects will show up purple. If I reload the game the texture will load.

Edited August 22, 2014 by KBoom

[GunerX]

if RELOADING fixes it, its a VRAM issue.

 

Uninstall some of the more costly mods, such as SRO, SFO, SDO, SkyFalls and SkyMills, etc etc.

[KBoom]

Not sure if it's too soon to tell but installing ENBoost seems to have fixed both CTDs and random missing textures.

 

By now I should've been able to reproduce the problem. I'll keep playing and see how it goes.

[phazer11]

ENBoost does not have the performance hit. It is merely a portion of the full ENB package that allows you to get more out of your 64-Bit system. It helps get rid of some mirroring that the game engine does with textures and such. That's likely why you haven't had issues so far with it installed.

[GunerX]

ENBoost does not have the performance hit. It is merely a portion of the full ENB package that allows you to get more out of your 64-Bit system. It helps get rid of some mirroring that the game engine does with textures and such. That's likely why you haven't had issues so far with it installed.

^ what he said. You had a VRAM issue. ENboost helps that. Issue mostly solved. Still should probably remove a few of the heavier texture mods. Or do what I did and optimize the crap out of them.

[KBoom]

ENBoost does not have the performance hit. It is merely a portion of the full ENB package that allows you to get more out of your 64-Bit system. It helps get rid of some mirroring that the game engine does with textures and such. That's likely why you haven't had issues so far with it installed.

^ what he said. You had a VRAM issue. ENboost helps that. Issue mostly solved. Still should probably remove a few of the heavier texture mods. Or do what I did and optimize the crap out of them.

Will keep an eye out, but it really seems the problems are gone.

 

As for texture optimization, I believe this should be helpful https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:DDSopt#tab=QUICK-START_GUIDE?

Never did any texture optimization before.

[GunerX]

correct. just follow that guide and optimize stuff.

 

I optimized EVERY mod that had any MESHE or TEXTURE files at all.

 

If it was a BSA, I unpacked it, optimized it, and left it loose. (tried repacking into a compressed BSA but ran into issues, need more knowledge on that before trying again)

 

The end result was a MUCH smoother game.