[JESSE]

You have nothing to lose by trying it. If it's too much for your computer to handle, uncheck the boxes in the data files section of the launcher.

Ah. Okay. Good to know. I thought maybe if it didn't work right, I'd have to re-install the whole game to undo it.

[electro_fantics]

I am running windows xp.

And that is not the problem.

I have done nothing with the files. I am running no mods.

i have a very stable set up.

I have a card with 1 gb of ram.

5770 hd ati

12.1 ati drivers.

I can't seem to figure it out..........other than, this texture pack.

Like i said, maybe it's the video drivers. But, i see no reason why that would be.

The video drivers are a possible issue - the Steam page said they need to be current - but then if your computer is relatively new, they're probably fine.

How much RAM do you have? Not video card memory, but base RAM?

[Neko Jenny]

I'm afraid this only works if:

Before you load your game for the first time after downloaded the HD texture pack DLC, you have to un-checking the .esp files under data files. Because, if you do not this, the new .bsa files (related with the DLC) will overwrite the "vanilla" .bsa files and the game will be "stuck" with the official HD texture pack DLC.


Am I wrong?

I don't know if this is true, HOWEVER, after installing the new HD pack ALL of my "loose files" (textures I have installed with Wrye using Bain archives) are being ignored. What is worse, if I uncheck and completely remove the BSA/ESP files for the HD pack from my game folder, it STILL ignores my custom textures (I verified they are still their, let Wrye re-index them, even re-installed them completely from their various Bain archives.)

It is very much like the game is now FORCING the use of the default textures, where it was forcing the use of the high-res textures, even after removing the pack.

Going to try and load an earlier save, but I would really like to know. How can I use this pack and still have my loose file texture replacements take priority. I realize it SHOULD work that way, but it doesn't.

[Ebou Suso]

I am running windows xp.

And that is not the problem.

That may be the problem. IIRC, XP only recognizes 2gb of RAM max. You might not be able to load the textures into your RAM quickly enough. I could be wrong here, but thinking back, it's what I seem to remember from modding larger textures into previous games built on the same engine. You didn't mention how much RAM you actually have, though.

[christelle047]

I don't know if this is true, HOWEVER, after installing the new HD pack ALL of my "loose files" (textures I have installed with Wrye using Bain archives) are being ignored. What is worse, if I uncheck and completely remove the BSA/ESP files for the HD pack from my game folder, it STILL ignores my custom textures (I verified they are still their, let Wrye re-index them, even re-installed them completely from their various Bain archives.)

It is very much like the game is now FORCING the use of the default textures, where it was forcing the use of the high-res textures, even after removing the pack.

Going to try and load an earlier save, but I would really like to know. How can I use this pack and still have my loose file texture replacements take priority. I realize it SHOULD work that way, but it doesn't.

I believe I saw someone mention unpacking the BSAs into the texture folder being a viable workaround. I'm scanning the forums for that response now as I'd also like to keep my pretty dwarven armor textures.

[Gwen]

This texture pack is bugged out.

I am running vanila, freshly installed skyrim with the dlc bethesda texture pack, and I have downloaded from steam about 5 times today,
because I started a new game and ran into npcs with purple clothing. It's really getting annoying.

I had this problem before, on the vanilla game. Not just people but trees occasionally would be glowy purple. Whether from a patch or the 4GB mod I dunno, it hasn't appeared in our game in the past couple months. But just to say, this is not something totally new. I have heard others had the same. Now hopefully someone with more of a clue can tell you why and how to fix it- I always just had to reload a save.

Oh and the texture pack looks great. Thank you Beth.

[Siobhan Wallis-McRobert]

Okay, sounds like I'm going to wait until tomorrow to try this out.

[JUan Martinez]

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198053709888/screenshot/487749552355695627

Here is the imfamous shot of the purple chopping block that a lot of people have in riften.

It's definitely not my pc.

Windows xp shows well over 2.2 gigs of ram free.

I have 4 gigs of ram in my computer, but windows only recognizes 3 of that.

I haven't had a texture problem since reloading my game, and I will play for a while and post later my findings.

Am going to try to roll back my video card driver to 11.1 (last stable skyrim fix / build).

See what happens.

[barbara belmonte]

Just uncheck HighResTexturePack01.esp and HighResTexturePack02.esp in the launcher's plugin list. The game will forget the new textures and revert to loading the default ones.
If you want to actually delete the files, they usually are in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\skyrim\Data

You want to delete

HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.esp
HighResTexturePack01.bsa
HighResTexturePack02.bsa

Do not touch anything else.

Do know that your issue seems like the exception. I, for example, have encountered no glaring problem yet. It is entirely possible your copy of the texture archives got corrupted during download. The launch, after all, must have been stressful for the servers, and these are rather large files with plenty of room for errors to creep in during download.

This http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1343691-info-detailed-anolysis-of-highres-pack-click-to-learn/ might be relevant to the discussion. It presents some minor oversights that are indeed present within the package.

[Chris Cross Cabaret Man]

From all the screens I've seen Skyrim 2k HD > DLC textures. I'll probably stick with my 2k mod...

[Daramis McGee]

I believe I saw someone mention unpacking the BSAs into the texture folder being a viable workaround. I'm scanning the forums for that response now as I'd also like to keep my pretty dwarven armor textures.

I forgot to mention I had tried that, and on closer examination it worked. I made a separate Bain archive out of the HD pack, and had it load BEFORE any of my other texture packs in the Bain Installers tab of Wrye.

The reason it didn't seem to work before when I did this was because I on9ly had it loading before my landscape archive. =P

Definitely worth keeping.

[Wayland Neace]

You want to delete

HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.esp
HighResTexturePack01.bsa
HighResTexturePack02.bsa

So if I delete these that is an effective un-install? It's not going to start automaticly downloading again?

[Calum Campbell]

Actually, steam may auto download it again. You may have to uncheck updates for a time.

However, I do believe that you have to manually install the texture pack, and steam WILL NOT automatically download it.

Unless you do a verify game cache.


UPDATE:

I have decided not to use this texture pack until it is fixed.

There definitely is a problem with it, and it has bad textures in the bsa. Unless it is unpacked, and reworked, it isn't complete.

I realize some peopl ehaven't had any problems "yet", but they will.......

I am running another texture mod that is more taxing on my system with not a single problem.

So, it's definitely not having to do with my ram usage, or vram usage.

I have plenty of ram left over.......

The pack is bugged. It's a good pack, and the textures are very good.......

But I just can't justify using it until it is fixed.......which I am sure Bethesda will do.


Peace.

[NAtIVe GOddess]

I haven't ran into any purple clothing yet. But I do have the purple wood blocks and fire logs.

Apart from that, I like the DLC quite a lot and even more, because I FINALLY have a Hires Dwarven set that looks exactly the way I want.

[Evaa]

I encountered one of those purple textures I used to get before the 2GB patch. The chopping block owned by the female elf food merchant in Riften was the problem.

That one is busted for me as well.

[Natasha Biss]

Your operating system is over 10years old!!!!

Purple textures are a graphics card/main memory issue. If you do not have enough ram then all the textures cannot be loaded.

A ati 5770 is not really going to cut the mustard this day and age, you basically got xbox graphics card, which is based of the 4870 same as 5770.

You dont see people getting purple graphics with a good graphics card/pc.

Lower your texture qualitiy, if it goes away then you pc aint up to it.

[CORY]

Is there any way to back up Texture pack DLC? Will it be enough if i just burn these files?
HighResTexturePack01.bsa
HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.bsa
HighResTexturePack02.esp

[Lori Joe]

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198053709888/screenshot/487749552355265209?tab=public


Here is exactly what I am talking about. Click above. Dumb.

I just got this too. Retstarted steam and it's downloading something else again. I must say it makes a huge difference seeing all this pruple.

[Robert Garcia]

Does anyone know if this DLC will mess with any of my mods? And please don't guess.

[IsAiah AkA figgy]

Here are some screenshots with only the Highres Texture Pack 02 enabled.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/522652449460198563/ADB3F211631BB5E6EC13DD9DD9EEB37A979C3575/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/522652449460211228/D8026E36C5B26CEC11090430BE1CF7118B723389/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/522652449460207789/EA37F56A9CE8A39070D09742F0B62F4CBEB5DBAA/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/522652449460181879/81E42FC854F9929B59986434E39FC047CF75D3F5/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/522652449460203937/86E6997728BD5AFF6CC06F8EBDDBEA76F71F54C5/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/522652449460176920/39B7DA099273681CB50DEBAC2F6BCE6241DBB8F3/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/522652449460215462/DAD698F98C39E65431411AC8170A2152DB3D0DCC/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/522652449460188760/9D9945A94484C4543DE11679B0ADE47728C9AF99/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/522652449460169756/E257677AB18D1AF50C31776758AD7DAE5C354549/

Still getting some random purple elephants but does not CTD with Highres Texture Pack 01 disabled.

Anyone know what pack 01 & 02 is?

No explanation with download.

[Cartoon]

Is there any way to back up Texture pack DLC? Will it be enough if i just burn these files?
HighResTexturePack01.bsa
HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.bsa
HighResTexturePack02.esp

Yes that works, just back them up and you can copy/paste them to your data folder if you re-install the game, just be sure they're checked in Launcher / Data Files folder when you launch a new install.

I just tried this to verify it does work, ive been keeping a Drive image Pro image of skyrim with no patches at all just a clean install from disc, for backup while i was testing all the patch updates.
And copy/pasting the .esp and .bsa files you listed worked just fine.
(not sure if steam recognizes they are installed though, since i have steam offline on that install to ensure it stays "un-updated" for testing)

[DarkGypsy]

Bah!

The HD textures override my mod that makes female faces look less less decrepit. And re-aaplying the mod doesn't seem to work. My nice looking female dark elf suddenly looks hideous! Sorry Bethesda - given a choice of some nicer textures and hideous looking female characters, I'm reverting back.

[!beef]

Bah!

The HD textures override my mod that makes female faces look less less decrepit. And re-aaplying the mod doesn't seem to work. My nice looking female dark elf suddenly looks hideous! Sorry Bethesda - given a choice of some nicer textures and hideous looking female characters, I'm reverting back.

In another thread it said to put the files into the archive of your skyrim.ini but I'm waiting to see if this works because messing with the skyrim.ini can destroy your save data.

Edit: I can confirm that deleting the .esp files adding the .bsa files to your skyrim.ini works great. Look up the threads in the mods section.

[Brandon Bernardi]

Okay, finally caught the bug report on High res texture pack 01.

"Error. Failed to initialise renderer."

Whatever this means?

[james reed]

How can i stop it downloading the pack? ive tried deleting the files to no avail