Nvidia Drivers and the "Eternally glowing staff that humms"

Sanchelle · March 2016

Recently, i updated my Nvidia Driver, from ver. 362.00 to ver. 364.51.
When i played, AFTER the update, (Effectively using the 364.51 driver), i ran into an issue, causing my staffs, to constantly glow and humm after some use.
This effect, would persist through instancing, and, only increase in intensety, the more i used the staff. (Both Restoration and Destruction).
As far as i know, the only way, to get rid of this, was to exit the game, and re-launch.

This error, is local, based on the fact, that i am the only one seing it, and only on my own staffs.

Then, i did a roll-back to Driver ver. 362.00 and the issue has vanished completely, based off of the fact, that i played 10+ hours yesterday, with no incident of the mentioned error.

Is there something in the TG expansion, that causes the new driver to produce this error ?
Seems, this is not a new bug, as people tell me, it has been occuring on and off, since release ?

This post, is more for informational use, as some might be in the same situation as me ... dunno :S

Quick system info:
Intel core I7-2600 @ 3.40 Ghz (non-clocked)
8192 MB Ram
Win10 64-bit (Yes, i have major audio issues in the 65-bit client too)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 GPU with 4044mb total memory

Attached:
DXDiag readout.

Sincerely
Sanchelle

Odanen · March 2016

There was a glow around my sword yesterday.
And when i'm pressed "z" (remove weapon) a small shining sphere of light appears in the air. Restarting game helped me.
By the way, i'm playing on the 350.12 version of nvidia. Any newest versions is crashed the game (nvidia drivers are stopped responding) after an hour (or more) of playing.

Reicta · March 2016

I use an AMD card and had this glitch too. At first it was cool but then it got old fast because it wasn't supposed to be there.

It started for me after the Thieves Guild patch too but eventually it just stopped happening and I don't recall doing anything on my end to fix it.

I am running the latest (non-beta) AMD drivers.

Sanchelle · March 2016

Mine, kept being bugged

... changing staff, didn't help either... the error just passed onto the next staff, regardless if it came from inventory, or was on the 2nd set :-/

Bartdude · March 2016

364.51 are bugged and should have been pulled, 362.00 or earlier are supposed to be stable

Sanchelle · March 2016

Well.... Now, even on the rollback driver, my resto staff keeps glowing, and, there is NOTHING stated anywhere, about a fix. not even a response to the in-game ticket i submitted -,-

Sanchelle · March 2016

Made a small quick video and put it on youtube...

(YES, i know, the res looks awefull.... but, i have NO idea, how to make it any better...)

Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILu7wscLHc

kawazu874b16_ESO · March 2016

I never had any graphic problem with any drivers (gtx660ti and 970 now) under w7 with 8 or 16gb ram. w10 still messed up after all this time ? I can't believe that. maybe try without addons ?

Bamff · June 2016

So... It's now June 6th of 2016 and I've seen posts as far back as April of 2014 complaining about the Restoration Staff Glow.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/90573/remove-resto-staff-glow
(Keyword search 'glowing staff')

This happens after you cast Solar Flare two to three times and the glow gets brighter and brighter with each casting (while using the Restoration staff).

I'm surprised that over two years later, this has still not been resolved.

*** This is not simply a cosmetic issue for me. When it gets bright enough, it will give me a headache, I need to stop playing, and close my eyes for about 20 minutes. Disappointing to say the least.

Is there any kind of work around other than logging off and back in again?

Bamff · June 2016

Another patch on 06/13/2016 2.4.7 and the staff is still not fixed

Bamff · September 2016

PC version 2.5.10 released on 09/12/2016 and still not fixed.

Gargath · September 2016

Maybe stop using Solar Flare and learn a different better spell instead. I just did that, because I had the issue too on my staff, and now I don't need Solar Flare anymore and also no concern about bug

. Solar Flare isn't also the best spell, there are others much better.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · September 2016

Is this with the 64 bit client? I had a ton of problems with it, switching back to the 32bit client fixed everything.

twev · September 2016

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

Is this with the 64 bit client? I had a ton of problems with it, switching back to the 32bit client fixed everything.

I have it on 32 bit client.

otoh, I kinda like it.