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Admiral Volshe Oct 31, 2016 @ 8:58am
Vertical bar across screen
I have a random, thin vertical bar that has appeared across my screen. It blurs when I go into the Quest menu so I know it's not my monitor or even my computer, but I was wondering if anyone else had this and figured out a way to fix it.
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Originally posted by y.olg:
Had the same problem with my laptop. Turned godrays off in advanced settings, fixed it.
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ConspiracyDawg Dec 2, 2016 @ 5:21pm 
I've had this too since I first bought the game. It seems to show up the first time you enter an exterior cell and never goes away. Has anyone had any luck in getting rid of it?
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opjose Dec 2, 2016 @ 5:23pm 
It sounds like you are out of VRAM.

GPU specs please?
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ConspiracyDawg Dec 2, 2016 @ 5:30pm 
Originally posted by opjose:
It sounds like you are out of VRAM.

GPU specs please?
It's an Intel HD 5500. I don't think it has any dedicated memory. Seems kinda weird for a VRAM issue, though. I'm used to crashes and slowdowns (though the Skyrim SE seems much more stable than the original game), but the bar acts like an actual in-world object centered on the character.
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opjose Dec 2, 2016 @ 5:31pm 
Your machine is below the minimum specs for this game.

You will need a dedicated GPU to run the game.

Shared video memory does not cut it.

Last edited by opjose; Dec 2, 2016 @ 5:31pm
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Andromalius Dec 2, 2016 @ 5:49pm 
The gods have cursed you with the dead pixels disease (in game of course).
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ConspiracyDawg Dec 2, 2016 @ 5:49pm 
Originally posted by opjose:
Your machine is below the minimum specs for this game.

You will need a dedicated GPU to run the game.

Shared video memory does not cut it.
I realize I'm running below spec, but ~85-90% of my gaming experience has been running stuff well, well below requirements, and this is the first time that it's caused an actual visual error in the game (except those related to draw distances being set really low), as opposed to just running slowly and crashing occasionally. I'm not trying to question your knowledge or anything, I'm just saying that this runs pretty counter to my experience. Here, I took some screenshots so you can see that it really is pretty odd: https://postimg.org/image/vtusm8hav/
As you can see, it acts like an in-game object. The menu blurs it, so it's not an HUD problem, or at least not just that. It's most opaque up high, and almost completely transparent when pointed at the ground, which makes me think that it's related to the atmosphere somehow. Again, I'm sure that running below spec has something to do with it, but since it seems to be an actual in-game object, there might be something in the CK that I can tweak to reduce or fix it. Also, there's two bars now, so that's pretty weird.
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opjose Dec 2, 2016 @ 6:22pm 
The game REQUIRES a dedicated GPU with 2GB of VRAM at a minum.

You are below specs. The rest is irrelevant.

Skyrim SE has higher requirements than the original release.

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ConspiracyDawg Dec 2, 2016 @ 8:53pm 
Originally posted by opjose:
The game REQUIRES a dedicated GPU with 2GB of VRAM at a minum.

You are below specs. The rest is irrelevant.

Skyrim SE has higher requirements than the original release.
Look, no offense, but if the minimum requirements were a hard limit, I'd've had to stop gaming a long time ago. Anyway, fine, yes, I'm below spec and I'll bugger off. Thanks for your time.
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MysticMalevolence Dec 2, 2016 @ 9:09pm 
That's because it's using a GPU that isn't powerful enough--I had the same problem when it was trying to use my integrated GPU, and it went away immediately upon switching it to my dedicated.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=792429114
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ConspiracyDawg Dec 2, 2016 @ 9:19pm 
Originally posted by Sir Dylan:
That's because it's using a GPU that isn't powerful enough--I had the same problem when it was trying to use my integrated GPU, and it went away immediately upon switching it to my dedicated.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=792429114
Thanks! Any idea what the object actually is? I've never seen anything like it.
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opjose Dec 3, 2016 @ 1:22pm 
Originally posted by ConspiracyDawg:
Look, no offense, but if the minimum requirements were a hard limit, I'd've had to stop gaming a long time ago. Anyway, fine, yes, I'm below spec and I'll bugger off. Thanks for your time.

You misunderstand how this works then.

"light" games do not require the resources nor the separate rendering horsepower provided by a GPU.

As 3D games started to come out for PC's, hardware developers began down the road of dedicated graphics processors to offload the main computer from all of the additiona work.

For a long time you could only play games with dedicated GPU cards.

Along comes the uninformed consumer, who walks into a store and immediately says "I don't play games and I want something cheap".

Intel sees an opening and dedicates part of the CPU to handling -LIGHT- graphics for causual games. The misinformed consumer is happy because their new cheaper laptop now has the ability to run things it could not before. Intel makes more sales and the "average" 3D graphics horsepower in PC's takes anose dive.

Meanwhile people who do play higher end games want more and more 3D graphics fidelity, which requires dedicated high end GPU's... the developers of these games write for that hardware to cater to the gamers.

Then some people come along, thinking that because they could run these "light" games, that just released X64 version will run just fine on their machine... Eh, -NO!-. Worst still they don't check the specs before purchasing and some get upset and contrary when told that their hardware does not cut it... (not meaning you.).

When SKSE was announced & released the devs posted the additional specs and requirements. If a system is not at least to the minimum specs, then it is a wonder that it could run at all, hacks and mod attempts to get around this not-with-standing.








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y.olg Feb 28, 2018 @ 7:33am 
Had the same problem with my laptop. Turned godrays off in advanced settings, fixed it.
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Sinsling Feb 28, 2018 @ 7:42am 
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ NECROMANCERS.
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Admiral Volshe Mar 6, 2018 @ 12:38am 
Originally posted by Sinsling:
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ NECROMANCERS.
LOL



Originally posted by opjose:
The game REQUIRES a dedicated GPU with 2GB of VRAM at a minum.

You are below specs. The rest is irrelevant.

Skyrim SE has higher requirements than the original release.

I meet specs and exceed them, in fact. I have NVDIA with 4GB VRAM.

For whatever reason, though, my laptop doesn't like godrays. Switching them off fixed the problem then adding a mod that modified godrays as an aside actually let me keep them on for a bit. y.olg is on the money :)
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opjose Mar 6, 2018 @ 12:12pm 
Originally posted by Admiral Volshe:

Originally posted by opjose:
The game REQUIRES a dedicated GPU with 2GB of VRAM at a minum.

You are below specs. The rest is irrelevant.

Skyrim SE has higher requirements than the original release.

I meet specs and exceed them, in fact. I have NVDIA with 4GB VRAM.

I was not talking to you rather the poster above that... this is what happens when someone hijacks a thread.

People should start their own thread.

Glad you got it sorted out.
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