Vampire lord texture missing

[bababooey]

So, was playing dawnguard and chose to be a vampire lord
when harkon transformed into the vampire lord the problem appeared : he had no damn textures, so do i when i transform into vampire lord
Checked the cache, turned off the mods and event installed some retexture, but, no sense.
check it yourself: https://imgur.com/a/iNJwEJp
hope that you'll have some ideas, guys
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Gm, guys! Solved the problem!
So, what i did, was basically unpack the BSA dawnguard file, and find the meshes of the vampire lord and place them where they should be
i was very surprised finding out, that my original folder with V.L. meshes was empty(xd)
So, thank for all your support and ideas ;)

[Exvalcore]

Theres only three reasons why it happens...

1st a mod is overriding its texture path to a new location which is missing its texture.
2nd you games texture of the vampirelord is bad so reinstall dawnguard.
3rd your ram is running over its limits in which case simply turning skyrim off & leaving & re-entering that cell(best to leave cell save then re-enter) should make his armor appear, if this is the case you'll need to make sure you have skse.ini's memory tweak & likely enbs video memory allotment tweaks, or upgrade your video card if its got really low dedicated memory like 128mb, lastly the game can draw from actually virtual memory & ram to use instead of dedicated if lacking it which means you need at least 8gb of ram & all the memory tweaks from enb & skse.

[Exvalcore]

Okay its only low ram if its a purple texture not entirely missing so its either 1 or 2 lucky u.

[Exvalcore]

& its not a missing texture thats a missing mesh.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Pink Ωmega:

So, was playing dawnguard and chose to be a vampire lord
when harkon transformed into the vampire lord the problem appeared : he had no damn textures, so do i when i transform into vampire lord
Checked the cache, turned off the mods and event installed some retexture, but, no sense.
check it yourself: https://imgur.com/a/iNJwEJp
hope that you'll have some ideas, guys

That's not a missing texture. That's a missing *mesh*. They're different and kept in different directories.

Either you've installed a mod wrong or uninstalled a mod wrong. Either re-read the mod install instructions and repeat or verify your game files through Steam.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by exeaircore:

Theres only three reasons why it happens...

1st a mod is overriding its texture path to a new location which is missing its texture.
2nd you games texture of the vampirelord is bad so reinstall dawnguard.
3rd your ram is running over its limits in which case simply turning skyrim off & leaving & re-entering that cell(best to leave cell save then re-enter) should make his armor appear, if this is the case you'll need to make sure you have skse.ini's memory tweak & likely enbs video memory allotment tweaks, or upgrade your video card if its got really low dedicated memory like 128mb, lastly the game can draw from actually virtual memory & ram to use instead of dedicated if lacking it which means you need at least 8gb of ram & all the memory tweaks from enb & skse.

The game can not draw from RAM to augment VRAM. Integrated GPU's do that, not stand-alone GPU's.

ASa 32bit application it can never possibly use more than 4GB of RAM and as a directx9 game it *mirrors* VRAM in RAM so your available ram is lowered by that much through hi-res textures.

And the game has a native 3.1 GB limit.

[bababooey]

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

Originally posted by Pink Ωmega:

So, was playing dawnguard and chose to be a vampire lord
when harkon transformed into the vampire lord the problem appeared : he had no damn textures, so do i when i transform into vampire lord
Checked the cache, turned off the mods and event installed some retexture, but, no sense.
check it yourself: https://imgur.com/a/iNJwEJp
hope that you'll have some ideas, guys

That's not a missing texture. That's a missing *mesh*. They're different and kept in different directories.

Either you've installed a mod wrong or uninstalled a mod wrong. Either re-read the mod install instructions and repeat or verify your game files through Steam.

Well, my friend, i've just installed skyrim and dind't uninstal any mod related to vampire and especially to vamprile lord meshes. I should have wrote up there that i had searched for the original meshes, but didn't find any

[Exvalcore]

Thats mostly correct, however the memory tweaks still serve they're purpose & possibly are allowing for more overhead for extra ram to help out, I noticed a performance boost going from 4 rams to 8 rams but thats possibly due to the fact my windows may have been using a chunk of it up while my skyrim lacked the memory tweaks which likely caused the ram to cap at 2 rams instead of unlocked to 3.1, only god truly knows most games run smoother with 8 rams even if it says otherwise, interestingly I do have a integrated card so my 3rd reason still holds valid if your statement about Dedicated GPUs does, Oh I wonder if my Integrated GPU does in fact give a boost to gameplay by having 512mb dedicated memory alongside its 4GB ram sharing ability.

[Exvalcore]

The Mesh & Textures are packed into the BSA's you can't just find it you have to extract the whole dlc, & why its better to just redownload the whole 600mbs over again, course it could be a mesh thats missing from the Hi-Res DLC in which would be fixed by the unofficial legendary patch & or unofficial hi-res patch mods.

[bababooey]

Originally posted by exeaircore:

The Mesh & Textures are packed into the BSA's you can't just find it you have to extract the whole dlc, & why its better to just redownload the whole 600mbs over again, course it could be a mesh thats missing from the Hi-Res DLC in which would be fixed by the unofficial legendary patch & or unofficial hi-res pack mods.

Believe it or not but i did even redownload the dlc

[Exvalcore]

Download a replacement mesh mod, I'll search for one.

[Exvalcore]

LICH - Vampire Lord Replacer MOD

📁 LICH - TheGreyLight-44248-.7z
📄 LICH - Vampire Lord Replacer - TheGreyLight.esp (0 kb)
📁 meshes
📁 TheGreyLight
📁 Lich
📄 vampirelordskeleton.nif (498 kb)

If this mod can change your vampire lord form to a lich then your 1 step closer to solving your issue.

[Exvalcore]

This mod seems to have the correct pathing to the mesh but are replacements.

📁 Grimoas Vampire Lord-29085-1-0.7z
📁 data
📄 GrimoasVampireLord.txt (0 kb)
📁 textures
📁 actors
📁 gri_vamplord
📄 gri_vamplord.dds (5461 kb)
📄 gri_vamplord_m.dds (4096 kb)
📄 gri_vamplord_n.dds (4096 kb)
📄 gri_vamplord_sk.dds (64 kb)
📁 meshes
📁 actors
📁 vampirelord
📁 character assets
📄 vampirelord.nif (593 kb)
📄 vampirelordarmor.nif (400 kb)
📄 vampirelordfemale.nif (638 kb)
📄 vampirelordfemalebasearmor.nif (515 kb)
📄 vampirelordfemalequeenarmor.nif (609 kb)
📄 vampirelordkingarmor.nif (582 kb)

[Exvalcore]

This mod adds a slight altered skeleton so both this one & the one above not liches will combo togather & mask your issue with a replacement.

Supreme Vampire Lords mod nexus & Grimoas Vampire Lord mod nexus

📁 Supreme Vampire Lords-93384-1-1.7z
📁 Data
📁 Meshes
📁 Actors
📁 vampirelord
📁 character assets
📄 skeleton.nif (21 kb)

[Lord Zapharos]

Originally posted by exeaircore:

Download a replacement mesh mod, I'll search for one.

No offense to the poster, but downloading a mod to fix a problem that is (almost certainly) caused by another mod is just bad advice. The OP should figure out which mod broke the mesh and fix that first, rather than applying a quick "bandage". If a mod was installed incorrectly or conflicts with a different mod, there could be other problems that the suggested bandage won't fix. And if you keep trying to apply quick fixes without addressing the underlying problem, you can quickly end up with an unstable, buggy load order and possibly broken save files.

OP should consider reverting Skyrim to a "clean" installation (see the STEP wiki page[wiki.step-project.com]) and re-adding all existing mods in the same load order as before, paying careful attention to each mod's installation instructions. In any case, posting your load order here may be helpful so other people can point out any "suspicious" mods that might be causing the problem.

[Exvalcore]

TC already stated mods weren't the cause & since its a vampirelord issue likely nothing else then its a dlc issue not a main game one so a fresh install would achieve nothing since TC already tried redownloading the DLC.

This Mod replacement is a sort of last ditch effort when everything else fails, somethings broke be it the save or game files who knows.