Purple (untextured) armor [SOLVED]

[kdodds]

I'm fairly certain this is due to the GPU being bogged, no? It happened for the first and only time in the College of Winterhold. It was indoors, and during a blizzard. I recently installed Wet and Cold and pretty sure going with the 2k cloaks was maybe it. That or the snow/wet decals all over me maybe? The other mods I installed are Skymills and Skyfalls (shouldn't effect indoors) and HD Detailed Terrain (ditto).

Am I on the right track?

[cfs111]

Chances are yes, if it were missing assets it would happen all the time with that armor. More than likely you ran out of VRAM. Normally I would post the usual guides, but seeing who OP is... Are you using ENBoost or have it set up if using a standard ENB preset?

[Uncle64]

You are running out of V-ram as CFC111 says. It can come to if you are running low on normal memory to. If you will go near 3.8 limit (not sure about the limit)

I have the same issues in my other heavy modded profile. Save often and re load will do the trick.

[kdodds]

No, ENB and ENBoost are not installed, so no, no presets either. It's late, but tomorrow I'll try dumbing down Wet and Cold by removing the decals and see if that works.

Forgot to mention, this was in the Archmage's Chamber, which is pretty busy, and in the Arcaneum, also tons of different textures in use there as well. I swapped armor (okay I ran around in a loincloth) and went outside. Went back to inventory and the textures were there again, so definitely not missing assets.

And yeah, my modlist is getting a little heavy, especially for my GPU (675M).

0 0 Skyrim.esm
1 1 Update.esm
2 2 Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp
3 3 Dawnguard.esm
4 4 Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp
5 5 HearthFires.esm
6 6 Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp
7 7 Dragonborn.esm
8 8 Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp
9 9 Falskaar.esm
10 a Wyrmstooth.esp
11 b moonpath.esm
12 c ClimatesOfTamriel.esm
13 d HighResTexturePack01.esp
14 e HighResTexturePack02.esp
15 f HighResTexturePack03.esp
16 10 Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp
17 11 Cutting Room Floor.esp
18 12 SkyUI.esp
19 13 iHUD.esp
20 14 Moonpath_TP.esp
21 15 EnhancedLightsandFX.esp
22 16 ELFX - Exteriors.esp
23 17 ELFX - Dawnguard.esp
24 18 ELFX - Dragonborn.esp
25 19 SkyFalls + SkyMills + DG + DB + FS + WT.esp
26 1a crimsonquestmarkers.esp
27 1b ELFXEnhancer.esp
28 1c Purewaters.esp
29 1d Black Mage Armor.esp
30 1e BarenziahQuestMarkers.esp
31 1f Convenient Horses.esp
32 20 JiubQuestMarkers.esp
33 21 dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp
34 22 dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp
35 23 dD-Larger Splatter Size.esp
36 24 ClimatesOfTamriel Falskaar.esp
37 25 Purewaters-Falskaar.esp
38 26 PrvtI_HeavyArmory.esp
39 27 Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp
40 28 When Vampires Attack.esp
41 29 AdventurersAndTravelers.esp
42 2a Birdsofskyrim.esp
43 2b skyrim map markers visible.esp
44 2c RBB Long Boats.esp
45 2d Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp
46 2e Run For Your Lives.esp
47 2f quest_thebiggertheyare.esp
48 30 Darkwater Crossing.esp
49 31 RBB Large Boats.esp
50 32 quest_nomercy.esp
51 33 SkyFalls DB + FS Small Waterfalls.esp
52 34 SMIM-Merged-All.esp
53 35 moonpath_questdata.esp
54 36 tos_amber_guard.esp
55 37 tos_laintardale_hf.esp
56 38 Immersive Patrols II.esp
57 39 tos_oakwood_hf.esp
58 3a quest_seaofghosts.esp
59 3b RBB Long Boats - Falskaar.esp
60 3c RBB Row Boats.esp
61 3d JNL - Lots More Followers.esp
62 3e tos_granitehall.esp
63 3f Ivarstead.esp
64 40 Kynesgrove.esp
65 41 ForgottenCity.esp
66 42 quest_pitfighter.esp
67 43 Provincial Courier Service.esp
68 44 quest_sorcery.esp
69 45 quest_andtherealmsofdaedra.esp
70 46 The Paarthurnax Dilemma.esp
71 47 DragonPriestMaskQuestMarkers.esp
72 48 wisplicker.esp
73 49 Imaginator BETA.esp
74 4a Medusa and Drakul Armors.esp
75 4b RBB - Row Boats - Hearthfire Hotfix.esp
76 4c Clyde.esp
77 4d Dr_Bandolier.esp
78 4e ELFX - Moonpath.esp
79 4f PrvtI_HeavyArmory_DG_Addon.esp
80 50 AmazingFollowerTweaks.esp
81 51 arvakskull-marker.esp
82 52 dragonborn map markers.esp
83 53 heavy holy.esp
84 54 quest_pitfighter_dlc01.esp
85 55 AHZmoreHUD.esp
86 56 RBB Long Boats - Wyrmstooth.esp
87 57 RBB Row Boats - Wyrmstooth.esp
88 58 ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-4.esp
89 59 WetandCold.esp
90 5a WetandCold - Ashes.esp

[Uncle64]

No that is not that heavy.
But you can actually remove the Hi res pack. It drags your fps down.
You have SMIM already.

I do remember that Wet and Cold are script intense. I have stopped to use that.

[★Kelvy★]

Hi res ain't the issue, armour mod clash here or clothing.
SMIMs fixes static features that are miscoloured.

[kdodds]

Originally posted by Kelvy:

Hi res ain't the issue, armour mod clash here or clothing.
SMIMs fixes static features that are miscoloured.

It's not a mod conflict as far as I can tell since the armor WILL reappear once I move out of the area. It's also random pieces, which you would not expect with a conflict. A conflict would be consistent, or at least somewhat so.

SMIM modifies the static models AND includes new textures.

HiRes pack being textures, any other textures that are used in their place means the HiRes textures aren't loaded/used/seen, so I don't think removing it will do anything except make the ones that aren't replaced ugly. Yeah, it may make more room in VRAM, but I'd rather try to do that with decal (or other mod removal) first.

[kdodds]

Did some research this morning and it appears that there are two (main anyway) reasons for the purple textures:

1. You simply don't have the texture. It's missing, so it can never show. This is usually due to conflicting mods or deleted assets. Fix: find the conflict or redownload the mod.

2. Running out of VRAM. Your GPU just doesn't have enough VRAM to handle the loading of textures, meshes, and effects for the area. Repeatable in the area, may not be repeatable per asset. This is exactly what's happening to me, so I'm going to try fiddling with Wet and Cold and see what happens.

[cfs111]

With my last big texture heavy mod list I had my VRAM usage at 95-98% utilization. I'm sure if I would have added 1 more texture I would have had your issue. Maybe you are at the end of what your GPU can handle? Sucks, but....

[Uncle64]

Originally posted by kdodds:

Did some research this morning and it appears that there are two (main anyway) reasons for the purple textures:

1. You simply don't have the texture. It's missing, so it can never show. This is usually due to conflicting mods or deleted assets. Fix: find the conflict or redownload the mod.

2. Running out of VRAM. Your GPU just doesn't have enough VRAM to handle the loading of textures, meshes, and effects for the area. Repeatable in the area, may not be repeatable per asset. This is exactly what's happening to me, so I'm going to try fiddling with Wet and Cold and see what happens.

I think you are running in to.

2. You are running out of V-Ram. I have the same error some times. It can be annoying.

Do you like me have only 1 gig of V-ram on your GPU?

You can use Skyrim Performace monitor and check what you have left of your V-ram.

[kdodds]

Yeah, I think I'm about at max.

The 675M is 2GB. For what it is, it's a kick ass card for it's age and application. Vanilla runs ultra in 3D on it, no problem. I kicked out the 3D a while ago because I couldn't play more than an hour or so without getting a headache, but is probably the single most awesome way to play Skyrim, better than any ENB or graphics improvements.

Any idea whether installing ENB and ENBoost will help with VRAM usage (without loading presets, without ENB on)?

[Uncle64]

I play whithout ENB, but set my settings like this instead on Ultra.
Seems to work fine.

https://gyazo.com/68b2c8fe2bb6adfb94ecd00ebab1e4df

[kdodds]

Sort of solved. It's definitely the VRAM limitation. Disabling some mod options and the textures appear. Also, in these areas, flushing VRAM will resolve the issue. Look like it's time for an upgrade.

[kdodds]

Yeah <sigh> I know. I'm actually looking at stepping up even more than that, dual 8GB 980Ms SLI. Still the game itself has its limits.

[Uncle64]

It would be nice if the game can use the memory you actually have in your system.

[kdodds]

It would need to be 64bit. Crazier patches have happened, but I'm not holding my breath. You're talking about a Skyrim.exe replacer, so it technically wouldn't be legal, I don't think, either.