(BUG) Smoke in loading screen is pink, and flickers. Please help me!

[Murthór Oathstóne]

It only happend recently, I thought it was because of a mod I downloaded so I turned off all of the mods I had downloaded, it still did not go away, so then I decided to wipe skyrim clean of all mods and reinstalled the game. I even deleted the game folder in my files as well to get a true clean slate. when the game was done reinstalling I clicked to play a new game, and the pink is still there. Also there is a really bad flicker in any kind of smoke effects in-game, such as when Alduin makes his storm of fireballs from the sky. I honestly don't know what to do, PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!!!

[Nazenn]

So youre saying that all of your smoke effects have turned pink?
You might need to provide a picture as if its just a texture problem then a reinstall or validating files should have fixed it if you dont have a mod file interfearing

[Murthór Oathstóne]

The smoke effects are only pink at the loading screen, and it flickers ALOT. however while in-game the smoke is the right color, yet it flickers alot as well. such as when Alduin has cast his little firestorm from the sky spell. Also I did reinstall the game, and did the Validating files. Nothing is working. here is the picture for the loading screen problem I am having.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198008591459/screenshots/

[Nazenn]

WOAH. Thats a new one for sure.

The only thing I can think of if its happening in a completely vanilla game is that it might be something to do with your graphics card.
There are others on the forum more informed about that then me so ill leave that to them though. Hope you get it sorted :)

[Murthór Oathstóne]

Thanks for the well wishes Nazenn.

[Wes]

I'm having this problem as well, it's pretty wierd and my best guess would be the graphics card. I can tolerate it though because it's only on the loading screen

[Murthór Oathstóne]

I can tolerate the loading screen bug as well, however there is another bug that came along with it, and thats the constant flickering, both in the loading screen and in-game. I tried to take screenshots of the flicker, but they happen so fast that the screenshot is not able to take the picture of it. its just too slow.

[Wes]

Good luck finding a solution, I'll be watching the thread as well hoping for a solution :)

[Murthór Oathstóne]

Well its not my software because it says that it has the latest drivers for my card.

[Zarum]

I recently downloaded a mod that changed my smoke as well, I found that the mod required me to add files to my main skyrim Folder, and not into the data folder. I got Rid of the mod because it was causeing my save games to bloat and would often take three loads before I was finally able to play that save game.

Question #1: Did you recently download a EnB?

Question #2: Any other graphical mods that you attained recently?


As for myself that Mod was "I can't believe its not ENB"

Its file structure required that I save into my Skyrim Folder:(Files)

SweetFX(Folder)
d3d9.dll
d3d9.fx
dxgi.dll
dxgi.fx
injector.ini
log.log
shader.fx(if you haveone of these I am almost sure its the culprit)
SweetFX readme.txt
SweetFX_preset.txt
SweetFX_settings.txt

I wrote down the files because if there is anything like this in your Skyrim folder that looks anything like those files you can and should be able to delete them without harming your game while also restoring your starting screen smoke.

[Wes]

It's the same for me, my driver is up to date. I have a problem with VBOs in MC because of my card, so you never know. Also what card do you have?

[Murthór Oathstóne]

I deleted everything skyrim related, the folders and all. and did a clean reinstall and validate files. the bug did not go away, when I did so. See my first thought was that it was because of a mod. but this appears to not be the case.

[Murthór Oathstóne]

Amd HD 5700 series. And I have had that for a few years now, no problems with it at all. infact there is no problems with any other games on my PC, other than skyrim. So I don't see how it can be my graphics card.

[Zarum]

I did some digging and this is what i found,

http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1385240-visual-glitch-madness

Hope this helps

[Murthór Oathstóne]

I tried it out and it did update the driver. however I also just deleted skyrim, for another go at a clean slate. so won't find out if the fix you provided will do anything till at least tommorow. I thank you for your help regardless though.

[Zarum]

Damn I was really hoping you wouldnt have to resort to that.

Still Working on a clean slate means you have an opportunity to use "Mod Organizer" Gopher has some awesome tutorials on YouTube in how to make it work. I plan on using it myself once I get my win 7 disk in the mail. Since you have some time before your game is up and running you should take a look. I am quite excited to use it because I don't use a mod manager Scary right? Making an archive of the files I changed allowes me to revert to how my game was if I ever decided to remove any mods. However it can be quite tedious to have to remember all of what changed so having Mod Organizer will help immensily.

Fly Safe and have Fun.