Pink objects and mobs

Morodor · May 2014

Afther a wile playing , npc's and some plants and so, comes pink, and than i got a black game screen and afther a bit waiting im back at the log in window . Dont know if someone else got that also ?

freespirit · May 2014

I've had the pink mobs once BUT since the patch I have crashed three times and had to completely down power my pc to get out of the game. What's going on?

Morodor · May 2014

Aye, got also a few crashes, needed to ctrl-alt-del out to shutdown the game.

Tenofas · May 2014

Same here... pink mobs and trees/buildings... then after a while crash!

Cathrin · May 2014

I just had a crash, that forced me to restart my computer. Black game screen, then nothing. Happened the first time to me and after the newest patch.

No pink mobs though.

Moonraker · May 2014

Pink in visuals is a sign that something is wrong with the textures (the colour used if texture can't be used or missing) It can be corrupted or missing texture files in data folders.

But in this case I suspect it is related to the memory leak issue reported widely since the update. When the client runs low on memory due to the leak it starts to impact texture loading and hence pink colours and crash.

If it's not crashing and you have pink colours try a repair and if that doesn't help a reinstall which should fix it if it's corrupted files. But see above. It may be the memory issue so this wont help.

KitLightning · May 2014

The pink textures are the normal maps for the objects/characters, the actual texture is missing or not parsed correctly by the .exe. I've seen this occur on numerous times and repairing is like rolling a 100 dice with a 10 percent chance of getting some sort of corrupted texture when entering the build again.

Beesting · May 2014

I had pink textures in modded skyrim, and it was because i only had 1 gb of videomemory, i needed 2
When the video memory is full, all new textures become pink. Could be armor, walls, etc

After a while the game crashes. If you can buy a videocard with 2 Gb or more, i would try that.

Morodor · May 2014

i have 16gb and dual video graphic card amd 5800 HD ,2 of them in crossfire.
This pink textures i only have afther the last patch . Seems must be a memory leak
than.Than afther a few moments the game crash.

NullByte · May 2014

This is also happening to me. Crashing a lot after the patch when resurrecting or loading new areas.

Tried to take some screenshots of the pink/purple horses and other objects running around but they came out 0 bytes in size.

Never had many crashes prior to the patch and levelled 1 char to Vet 10 and another to Vet 7. Now I can barely spend 30 mins in the game without a guaranteed crash.

Crossfire here also: I7 2700K, 16GB RAM, 2x 6970 in Crossfire.

Memory Leak? Crossfire issue?

Sang · May 2014

Three times after this patch I got a low memory warning .. black screen and random pink objects like Ore .. Cotton ... ect.

This has never happened before and I have no difficulties at all with my other games like TSW and Fallen Earth, both are resource hogs.

I'm becoming more and more unsatisfied with ESO and frankly can not see myself subbing any longer at this rate.

Morodor · May 2014

Disabled crossfire, now i can play twice as long of before, but it still crash, but nomore pink textures .

TigerLotus · May 2014

Try this:

Go to directory

\My Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\liveeu\UserSettings.txt

and change the following lines:

SET RequestedNumJobThreads "0"
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads "0"

The default here was "-1".

This fixed for me the following:
- Login issues on certain characters
- Purple textures

k9mouse · May 2014

I do not crash, but I do have the missing textures issues. I am running crossfire 7800 series, i7, 16 GB of ram. It worked fine before the patch, but now it is not. Yeah, it might be a memory leak issue.

Vanguard1 · May 2014

It is definitely the memory leak guys, I have monitored this, I changed my cards around, I have repaired the game and found nothing makes a difference. I checked my memory usage when it started happening and found that I was using 7.59 gb of memory out of my 8gb when it started.