I got a screenshot, will upload it today and post a link.

Here is the best example I could find in the screenies I took :

Ah-ha!!!

That, my fair maiden, is a sure sign your shaders are broken.

You can get fresh shaders here.

Thank you !!! I DL'd, will let you know if it fixes the problem !!

memory came!

Not really, when it comes to purple landscape, there are two common causes:

1. As you see above, broken shaders. This causes the game to tile on the texture and normal for the Landscape LOD quad you are currently in instead of the normal terrain textures, making the terrain look bluish-purple.

2. The textures are flat-out missing, resulting in a very bright pinkish-purple color. This means you didn't install the game properly or you have a badly implemented BSA Alteration Archive Invalidation occurring.

My post was actually unrelated to mALX's computer problems. The 4G of RAM I ordered came in the mail today.

http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/2118/p3280036.jpg

This post has been edited by King Coin: Mar 28 2011, 11:16 PM

WOO HOO !!! Are you building it tonight?

Just got done with it in fact.


new specs

Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs****), ~3.7GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Hard Drive: 500 GB @ 7200 RPM
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5770


**** I have a quad core with 8 threads, not an Octa-core

Yeah, yeah, yeah... too bad Oblivion ain't gonna care.

[/envious rationalization]



This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Mar 29 2011, 05:15 AM

Want to hear something funny TK? I put the new motherboard/processor/RAM in and hooked it up to my HD without reinstalling 7 and it did NOT blue screen! and I had an AMD processor in there before! It ran like crap but it ran! I have since reinstalled the OS and it runs great!

** mALX slips in a puddle of drool **

Our machines are almost twins...Same MOBO, same RAM, same graphics card, but different processor. I have an AMD Phenom II x4. I am curious as to which AMD processor you had because this one runs great. It is a hair slower then your i7 (2.80 Ghz vs. your 3.40 Ghz), but once you get up near 3 Ghz, the difference is barely noticable.

I had an old Athlon 64 dual core. I have no particular affinity for either brand, the Intel just seemed like a better deal cost/performance. This board has a turbo feature that Intel processors can take advantage of that temporarily over clocks the processor.

OK...this is really a software question rather than further hardware discussion, but I need advice. My McAffee subscription is going to run out on 5/10/11. I am tired of paying $85.00 a year for it. Plus, money is really tight right now. So, can anyone recommend a good, reliable, FREE internet security suite?

I have used Avast! for several years now, and have no complaints.

Mozilla Firefox with Ad Block Plus is very helpful with filtering out those horrible, virus-ridden Flash ads.

As for the AV Software, AVG is reputable and has a free version available. I'm using a paid version of the software, myself, and it with the above means I am quite safe surfing the web. I'd imagine the free version would be very helpful, too.

Although recent reports have said that AVG is getting a bit off-key, so do please only select what you think is best for you.

Is there anyone who doesn't use Firefox? Foolish mortals...

Chrome is faster!