Totally solved (thanks to the heroes of STEP) - STEP Extended (full) : horizontal lines in the distance (far away)

[PingouinMalin]

Hi,

 

I have completed the STEP Extended and I have, as far as I know respected every advice and order given and my game is running quite smoothly (it uses the full 2gb on my GTX 760 graphic card but I guess it is normal), apart from on slight problem. I have not added anything yet to it (no Enb for instance).

 

As shown here :

 

 

 

or here :

 

 

It does not appear to be visible on rocks or trees or water. Only ground (or grass maybe ?).

 

 

I think this is unrelated but I see kind of lines too on people with dark skin :

 

 

and

 

 

 

Fair Skinned people do not have this problem (or it is not visible).

 

 

Anyone has any idea what the problem might be ?

Edited August 28, 2014 by PingouinMalin

[PingouinMalin]

Well I tried to uninstall and, no surprise, it did absolutely nothing. I tweaked hte profiles, and nada.

 

I was unconvinced by the Graphic Card drivers but still uninstalled it (actually uninstalled the whole card by mistake) and...

 

VICTORY IS MINE !

 

It was either the drivers or NVidia Inspector, which I deleted too.

 

Big, big thanks to all the people who took time to help me. Really nice of you all.

 

 

Now I can ruin my Skyrim again with mods (hopefully not) !

[TechAngel85]

Shadow striping.

[PingouinMalin]

Thanks for the shadow striping : problem solved with a fix found on the Nexus.

 

But, as suspected, this was a second problem : the strange horizontal lines far away remain.

[TechAngel85]

Are you using AF?

[PingouinMalin]

I set iMaxAnisotropy = 0 in skyrim pref ini as stated in the guide and then used NVidia Inspector (having a GTX760) to set "user defined / off" and 16X as advised in the guide.

[TechAngel85]

How you you implementing AA and what are your shadow settings in the INIs?

fInteriorShadowDistance=fShadowDistance=fShadowLODStartFade=fShadowBiasScale=iBlurDeferredShadowMask=iShadowMapResolution=iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=iShadowSplitCount=iShadowFilter=iShadowMode=iShadowMaskQuarter=bTreesReceiveShadows=bDrawLandShadows=bShadowMaskZPrepass=bShadowsOnGrass=bDeferredShadows=bDrawShadows=

[PingouinMalin]

My AA setting has been done according to the STEP guide too : 4X, iMultiSample=4 in the ini file and in Nvidia inspector : 

• Set Antialiasing - Mode to "Application-controlled".
• Set Antialiasing - Setting to "Application-controlled / Off"

 

 

fInteriorShadowDistance=3000.0000

fShadowDistance=8000

fShadowLODStartFade=200.0000

fShadowBiasScale=0.15
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=3
iShadowMapResolution=4096
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048 (though I've discovered I have this one in both ini (display) and pref.ini (general))
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=1024 (in pref.ini)
iShadowSplitCount=2
iShadowFilter=3
iShadowMode=3
iShadowMaskQuarter=4
bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bDrawLandShadows=1
bShadowMaskZPrepass=0
bShadowsOnGrass=1
bDeferredShadows=1
bDrawShadows=1

[TechAngel85]

Try turning off "bDrawLandShadows" (set it to 0) and see this that helps. This has proven to work sometimes in this situation. If it works and you decided to run ENB, you can turn it back on.

[PingouinMalin]

I just tried and to no avail alas ! Damn horizontal lines are still there !

 

Even if this is not linked to this problem, the fact I have iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048 in both inis is probably not good, is it ?

[TechAngel85]

It shouldn't matter. Have you DDSopt any textures?

[PingouinMalin]

I have seven (the vanilla textures packs, as advised in the guide) : STD, hearthfires, dawnguard, dragonlord, HLRDC 1, 2 and 3.

 

 

PS : I have just reported your answer with the content of this reply. Wrong button : sorry to the moderator for this, I keep reading reply.

[TechAngel85]

I'll take care of the report.

 

This has to do with either LOD settings in the INIs or LOD textures since it is only happening when your LODs are kicking in, but knowing the Skyrim engine it's probably an issue with the water...haha! (just kidding)

[PingouinMalin]

I thought so too (with my not so good skills in modding). I tried reinstalling all the "distant something" mods in case I had done something wrong with the LOD affecting mods (but with the same settings) and I did not mess with any lod setting in the inis I think (I followed the guide to the letter except for one or to textures for items, which is pretty much unlikely to be the cause..).

 

I was thinking that, as I intend to install an enb anyway, the depth of field effect could hide the problem almost completely. Unless the enb is unhappy too about the bug. But I'd rather have no bug at all.

[PingouinMalin]

Oh and it also does it on the snow by the way : had not tested it yet, tis done.

[z929669]

I just don't see any horizontal lines in these images ... Can you upload better examples? Perhaps it is a monitor issue?