[SOLVED] Black textures on certain items?

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I've installed many texture mods through the Nexus Mod Manager and everything seemed okay until I walked into Markarth (I installed an HD texture pack for it). Random items and world objects such as bars in inns and armor in the smithing menu get this dark, black texture on it and each time I reload Skyrim it's something different. It does not appear to be a lighting problem just a texture issue. I have read on a forum that this could be due to running out of texture memory (which is 3.1GB I believe) but I believe this causes purple, missing textures not black ones, I also do not know how to check texture memory. I tried to install the Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch but it did not fix anything...
UPDATE: So I went into the game after disabling the Unofficial Patch to get screenshots of the problem and everything is fine. Can anyone explain why this happened and how to prevent it?

My load order:

0 0 Skyrim.esm
1 1 Update.esm
2 2 Dawnguard.esm
3 3 HearthFires.esm
4 4 Dragonborn.esm
Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp
5 5 aMidianborn_Skyforge_Weapons.esp
6 6 Tribunal Maskes by Zairaam.esp
7 7 AMB Glass Variants Lore.esp
8 8 Differently Ebony.esp
9 9 Beards.esp
10 a KrittaKitty_horses_uniqueFrost.esp
11 b dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp
12 c dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp
13 d EnhancedLightsandFX.esp
14 e Regional Snow Ice.esp
15 f ELFX - Exteriors.esp
16 10 EnhancedWetnessandPuddles.esp
17 11 RealisticWaterTwo.esp
18 12 ELFXEnhancer.esp
19 13 CinematicFireFX.esp
20 14 ELFX - Weathers.esp
21 15 RealisticWaterTwo - Legendary.esp
22 16 RealisticWaterTwo - Waves.esp
23 17 RealisticWaterTwo - Dragonborn.esp
24 18 Killmove Control.esp
25 19 RealisticWaterTwo - Waves - Dawnguard.esp
26 1a RealisticWaterTwo - Dawnguard.esp
27 1b dovahkiinrelax.esp
28 1c dD-No Spinning Death Animation Merged.esp
29 1d dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp
30 1e DragonBoneEbonsteel.esp
31 1f DragonBoneEbony_Replacer.esp
32 20 LBackpackAll.esp
33 21 Northguard Ranger Armor.esp
34 22 SkyUI.esp
35 23 MLPSoulGems.esp
36 24 GQJ_DG_vampireamuletfix.esp
37 25 RaceMenu.esp
38 26 RaceMenuPlugin.esp
39 27 hornsareforever.esp
40 28 iHUD.esp
41 29 Chesko_WearableLantern.esp
42 2a DYNAVISION Dynamic Depth of Field.esp
HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.esp
HighResTexturePack03.esp

[Kaiser]

I would suggest making sure archive invalidation is on.

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Originally posted by NerdRising:

I would suggest making sure archive invalidation is on.

Would I need a separate mod manager to check it? If so do you have any recommendations?

[Kaiser]

Originally posted by Barclay:

Originally posted by NerdRising:

I would suggest making sure archive invalidation is on.

Would I need a separate mod manager to check it? If so do you have any recommendations?

You can do it through NMM, or just go into the .ini file and manually do it. This seems more like missing textures, so I suggest after check archive invalidation is on to verify the game cache.

[♥ Barney ♥]

Originally posted by Barclay:

I've installed many texture mods through the Nexus Mod Manager and everything seemed okay until I walked into Markarth (I installed an HD texture pack for it). Random items and world objects such as bars in inns and armor in the smithing menu get this dark, black texture on it and each time I reload Skyrim it's something different. It does not appear to be a lighting problem just a texture issue. I have read on a forum that this could be due to running out of texture memory (which is 3.1GB I believe) but I believe this causes purple, missing textures not black ones, I also do not know how to check texture memory. I tried to install the Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch but it did not fix anything...
UPDATE: So I went into the game after disabling the Unofficial Patch to get screenshots of the problem and everything is fine. Can anyone explain why this happened and how to prevent it?

From what I understand when you get a purple texture it means you are missing the texture or the texture is placed in a wrong folder and so the mesh displays a purple colour. If you see black textures that are randomly occuring, then its a probably a memory issue. My computer is pretty old and sometimes when overloaded with 2K textures and fast travelling or some program is running in the background taking up memory, I get black textures on random things.

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Originally posted by NerdRising:

Originally posted by Barclay:

Would I need a separate mod manager to check it? If so do you have any recommendations?

You can do it through NMM, or just go into the .ini file and manually do it. This seems more like missing textures, so I suggest after check archive invalidation is on to verify the game cache.

Done and done, my game looks good so far. Thanks for your help!

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Originally posted by ♥ Barney ♥:

Originally posted by Barclay:

I've installed many texture mods through the Nexus Mod Manager and everything seemed okay until I walked into Markarth (I installed an HD texture pack for it). Random items and world objects such as bars in inns and armor in the smithing menu get this dark, black texture on it and each time I reload Skyrim it's something different. It does not appear to be a lighting problem just a texture issue. I have read on a forum that this could be due to running out of texture memory (which is 3.1GB I believe) but I believe this causes purple, missing textures not black ones, I also do not know how to check texture memory. I tried to install the Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch but it did not fix anything...
UPDATE: So I went into the game after disabling the Unofficial Patch to get screenshots of the problem and everything is fine. Can anyone explain why this happened and how to prevent it?

From what I understand when you get a purple texture it means you are missing the texture or the texture is placed in a wrong folder and so the mesh displays a purple colour. If you see black textures that are randomly occuring, then its a probably a memory issue. My computer is pretty old and sometimes when overloaded with 2K textures and fast travelling or some program is running in the background taking up memory, I get black textures on random things.

Well it could possibly be a memory issue but my computer is only a few months old, I think it's fixed at least for now. Thank you for your help as well.

[Adacho]

I have the same problem. Do you know how to fix this in the easiest way forever?

[Snow Bunny]

Originally posted by Podpacho:

I have the same problem. Do you know how to fix this in the easiest way forever?

Most often it is a game file ended up getting corrupted so verifying with Steam can usually fix the issue.

And if it doesn't you can use Loot and Wyre Bash to find what mods could be the culprit as some mods mess with default textures and can conflict and cause issues like flickering textures or random issues.