So, I just finished setting up my new 1080p monitor, and when I go to play Skyrim I am greeted with this main menu:[img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/6893312927_235607a372_b.jpg[/img]
It's not just the menu fog that's messed up, it's much of the fog in game which makes towns really annoying to traverse, and for some reason when I go fullscreen the monitor has a blue hue that is overlaid on top of everything. For some reason you can't see the blue if I take a screenshot, so here are a couple of pictures from my crappy camera that show what I'm talking about:

Normal black for the Bethesda logo:
[img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7054/6893333661_cc1e4f6981_z.jpg[/img]

Still normal when the Skyrim logo shows up:
[img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6893333689_62f7bda1d4_z.jpg[/img]

Now everything is blue once the menu shows up... and this is persistant once I start playing -__-
[img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7186/6893333869_69f481fe0c_z.jpg[/img]

Edit: I don't know why the images aren't showing up in the post, they were there when I previewed it, but the links are still valid to them, they're just my flickr images

as the screenshot is showing up fine here.. this problem is one of 2 things.

either A:.... the cable you using it faulty.... replace it..


b: the monitors itself is faulty.. replace it..

c: the video card for whatever reason decided to mess up (unlikely, but possible)

But it only happens when I go to fullscreen in Skyrim, all other games I've tried have run not blue, if I alt-tab out my main desktop and everything aren't blue, and it doesn't turn blue and funky until the main menu shows up...

Tip, Image tags don't actually work on this forum....its a long time tradition.

As said before, the first image you posted looks fine, try using another cable to plug in with. I would also suggest playing around with some of the contrast settings on your monitor, since the problem is with the white fog on black.

Any .ini mods? There was one that turned the screen red, maybe there is one that turns the screen blue too...

I've tried disabling all mods, and I don't think it's a contrast issue since it looks fine if I play in windowed mode.. also contrast wouldn't cause it to be blue..

Are you running the ENB series mod?

No

I guess backup your skyrimprefs.ini and skyrim.ini in the documents/my games/skyrim/ folder and then delete them .. load the game.. recreate them new.. hit play and see.

also make sure all the graphics options in the control panel for your video card are set to defaults.

What video card and monitor are you using?

It sounds like a bad monitor. That is the reason screensjhots do not show the defect, it only shows on your monitor. Try a different monitor.
(I hate 1080P anyway)

The new monitor is a ViewSonic VX2250wm-LED, and the graphics card is an NVidia GTX550Ti

It ran fine on my old monitor, but I was really hoping to not have to send this one back D:

From looking at your middle picture it looks like you have one enabled, from the text in the corner. Are you sure you don't have one running?

Though in theory you -shouldn't- be having this problem, it may be worth insuring that it is not the cause. This is most commonly an issue when running HDMI to a TV display, though I have seen the problem mentioned on some monitors as well via HDMI as well. I'm just going to paste in someone elses post from an old thread on another forum. It is concerning a problem with nvidia drivers and the color range reported to displays in certain instances. Also, insure that your color profiles are set up correctly on your monitor (of course) and in your nvidia control panel (under desktop color settings).

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Because someone at Nvidia has decided that this most simple and critical aspect is not important. We've been reporting this to Nvidia for years and they refuse to even acknowledge it. I have no clue why. As you say, as slow as even ATI was to recognize such a basic element of video display as the need for a 0-255 PC levels vs 16-235 video levels toggle, even they put this onto their control panel YEARS ago.

For some utterly unfathomable reason NVidia refuses to do this. THeir drivers already support both modes. But they insist on making their driver decide for you what is best even though it usually choses wrong and it does so in inconsistent ways.

If you make a custom mode, it always uses 0-255 so that is one way to get around it (however, for those who actually want 16-235 AND need custom modes, they are totally messed). Another way is to start driver install and then quit out before it does anything then go to the Nvidia folder on your main drive and go to the display drivers folder, folder for corect version etc. until eventually you get to the "nv_disp.inf" file and then every single time you need to go in and edit it, what you do is:

edit: C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\####(whatever driver install you are trying to change)\WinVista_Win7_64(or whatever fits your system)\International or English\Display.Driver\nv_disp.inf
find the "[nv_miscBase_addreg__01]" sections and then right after each one add the line:
"HKR,,SetDefaultFullRGBRangeOnHDMI,%REG_DWORD%,1"

So for instance you get:
"[nv_miscBase_addreg__01]
HKLM,"Software\Khronos\OpenCL\Vendors" ,nvcuda.dll,%REG_DWORD%,0x00000000
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\Hybrid",AddDeviceSequence,% REG_DWORD%,1
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak",NoPages,%REG_DWORD% ,0x40120518
HKLM,"Software\Wow6432Node\Khronos\OpenCL\ Vendors",nvcuda.dll,%REG_DWORD%,0x00000000
HKR,,MonitorCapabilityList,%REG_MULTI_SZ%,"ACR,2A1,71;"
HKR,,MonitorCapabilityList,%REG_SZ_APPEND%,"ACR,0126,70; "
HKR,,UserModeDriverGUID,%REG_SZ%,"{9A516B97-E7C1-451B-9165- C5035994A3F5}"

[nv_miscBase_addreg__02]
HKLM,"Software\Khronos\OpenCL\Vendors" ,nvcuda.dll,%REG_DWORD%,0x00000000
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\DRS",DRS_DefaultProfile,%REG_SZ% ,"3D App - Default Global Settings"
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\Hybrid",AddDeviceSequence,% REG_DWORD%,1
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak",NoPages,%REG_DWORD% ,0x40120518
HKLM,"Software\Wow6432Node\Khronos\OpenCL\ Vendors",nvcuda.dll,%REG_DWORD%,0x00000000
HKR,,MonitorCapabilityList,%REG_MULTI_SZ%,"ACR,2A1,71;"
HKR,,MonitorCapabilityList,%REG_SZ_APPEND%,"ACR,0126,70; "
HKR,,UserModeDriverGUID,%REG_SZ%,"{9A516B97-E7C1-451B-9165- C5035994A3F5}""

etc. for all the __##s
make sure to add it for all the miscbase0addreg's there might be like 20 of them

into:
[nv_miscBase_addreg__01]
HKR,,SetDefaultFullRGBRangeOnHDMI,%REG_DWORD%,1
HKLM,"Software\Khronos\OpenCL\Vendors" ,nvcuda.dll,%REG_DWORD%,0x00000000
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\Hybrid",AddDeviceSequence,% REG_DWORD%,1
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak",NoPages,%REG_DWORD% ,0x40120518
HKLM,"Software\Wow6432Node\Khronos\OpenCL\ Vendors",nvcuda.dll,%REG_DWORD%,0x00000000
HKR,,MonitorCapabilityList,%REG_MULTI_SZ%,"ACR,2A1,71;"
HKR,,MonitorCapabilityList,%REG_SZ_APPEND%,"ACR,0126,70; "
HKR,,UserModeDriverGUID,%REG_SZ%,"{9A516B97-E7C1-451B-9165- C5035994A3F5}"

[nv_miscBase_addreg__02]
HKR,,SetDefaultFullRGBRangeOnHDMI,%REG_DWORD%,1
HKLM,"Software\Khronos\OpenCL\Vendors" ,nvcuda.dll,%REG_DWORD%,0x00000000
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\DRS",DRS_DefaultProfile,%REG_SZ% ,"3D App - Default Global Settings"
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\Hybrid",AddDeviceSequence,% REG_DWORD%,1
HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak",NoPages,%REG_DWORD% ,0x40120518
HKLM,"Software\Wow6432Node\Khronos\OpenCL\ Vendors",nvcuda.dll,%REG_DWORD%,0x00000000
HKR,,MonitorCapabilityList,%REG_MULTI_SZ%,"ACR,2A1,71;"
HKR,,MonitorCapabilityList,%REG_SZ_APPEND%,"ACR,0126,70; "
HKR,,UserModeDriverGUID,%REG_SZ%,"{9A516B97-E7C1-451B-9165- C5035994A3F5}"

then you go back one directory and run setup.exe and install the driver"

Indeed, that's why I asked.

Did a full reinstall, so far it seems to be behaving normally! Yay

Are you using the FXAA post processing injector? If you don't adjust it correctly it can make the screen look different colors.