I've read a lot of threads on this and none seem to have a good explanation of the problem.

I have only one area that I've found so far where the water is transparent and it wasn't always this way (as I'm sure everyone knows). It's just off the road between those three skill stones and Riverwood. It's just this one random section where the riverbed is exposed. I see water flowing before and after it but it was pretty confusing. It seemed to appear when mages were fighting a long distance off and their fireballs just happened to cross my path up ahead (they were a good distance off and weren't aiming at me, makes me wonder what other things I've missed).

Is there any known problem/fix? I've never alt+tabbed. My computer is on high and is perfectly capable of playing on ultra high. I have no other issues on my computer but I do have the Unofficial Skyrim Patch (just in case any correlation is ever discovered). Nothing else.

Radeon HD 5870 (got a good deal so I didn't get higher), Intel i7 2600k, 1TB HDD 7200 RPM 64MB cache, 16GB RAM, 64Bit win7.

EDIT: I think I've narrowed it down to a HD 3000 patch that microsoft pushed out in my latest round of updates. Now I need advice on how best to go around getting rid of that.

You know what I bet it is, I just upgraded to the latest HD 3000 patch that microsoft pushed for my video card.

Anyone know a fast way to roll it back? I assume if you install it that way you can't just right-click, details, roll back.

Not of a rollback, but I know how you can uninstall it via the Device Manager. At least I think I do (been >= 10 years since I had an integrated graphics chip so I could be wrong >.>):

Find the Intel Graphics Adapter thing in the Device Manager and choose uninstall?

May be worth a shot. Though, I'm not sure if that would cause problems or not. :/

I'm not used to integrated...

Sounds like I need to at least have some version of the driver. Integrated, do you mean this was for my motherboard chipset (the intel z68 or whatever it is)? Damn. Any other solutions?

Surely people regularly want to roll back updates with drivers, sounds like something that should be easier.

Integrated graphics are generally CPU dependent.

What does that mean for me?

Video Cards I know, motherboard chips I don't (integrated graphics I guess).

You asked what hardware the integrated graphics were part of

Anyways, I've pretty much exhausted my supply of info about dealing with integrated graphics. I know the chips, just don't really know much about dealing with them through the OS as I've never really had integrated graphics.

Someone else is probably going to need to take over here.

Anyone else have any recommendations on how to roll back that HD 3000 update for the integrated intel chip that appears to have graphical implications on my game?

Have you tried a system restore?

That's generally a last resort on a real machine (i.e. non-VM).