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At first I thought these were unrelated, but they've now happened 3 times,
and it's always first one than the other.
The first time, I entered the Mage's Guild in Ald'ruhn, and I noticed the
lights were acting funny. It would suddenly get really dark, and then I'd
move a bit and it would be light again. Or the lights would just flicker on
and off every couple seconds on their own. This is NOT normal flicker.
When the lights went out, it was almost pitch dark except near the light
sources, and they went on/off like a light switch, rather than gradiating
like some torches and such do. The lights were fine everywhere else, but
whenever I came back to the Mage's Guild, they would go nuts. When I first
saw it, I thought it was related to some cool quest, and I'd get to figure
out what magical mischief was causing the lights to misbehave, but nobody
else seemed to notice it, so I chalked it up as just another minor bug.
Then a bit later, I noticed another weirdness. My map display had gone
completely black. I could still see all the little yellow rectangles
indicating doors, and my little arrow, but the rest of the map was pure
black. No matter where I went, whether I'd been there before or not, I had
no more map. It didn't happen right away, it was shortly after the lights
first started going crazy, so I didn't connect the two incidents at first.
The second time, I was in the Vivec Arena Canalworks, on my way to visit the
Morag Tong guild, and the thing with the lights happened again. This time I
knew it was no quest. Weird magic-like events may not seem out of place in
a Mage's Guild, but in some random part of the canalworks in Vivec, it's
definitely wrong. Then the same thing happened with the map, shortly after.
This time I noticed that the map was actually not completely black. There
was a very dim, faintly lit circle around where I was standing when the
lights first went out. I saved and reloaded, and it fixed the lights, but
the map problem remained. Only quitting the program entirely and restarting
it gave me back my mapping ability.
It was the third time I decided that this was really starting to be a
problem. Playing Havish, and the lights went out in the temple north of the
city, just starting the quest where I have to fight a bunch of undead in the
tombs. Let's just say that navigating those tombs without the benefit of a
map can be quite complicated.
Has anybody else noticed this behavior or have any ideas what might be
causing it? I'm not running any mods that do anything to the lights, so I
can't think what would be doing this...
At first I thought these were unrelated, but they've now happened 3 times,
and it's always first one than the other.
The first time, I entered the Mage's Guild in Ald'ruhn, and I noticed the
lights were acting funny. It would suddenly get really dark, and then I'd
move a bit and it would be light again. Or the lights would just flicker on
and off every couple seconds on their own. This is NOT normal flicker.
When the lights went out, it was almost pitch dark except near the light
sources, and they went on/off like a light switch, rather than gradiating
like some torches and such do. The lights were fine everywhere else, but
whenever I came back to the Mage's Guild, they would go nuts. When I first
saw it, I thought it was related to some cool quest, and I'd get to figure
out what magical mischief was causing the lights to misbehave, but nobody
else seemed to notice it, so I chalked it up as just another minor bug.
Then a bit later, I noticed another weirdness. My map display had gone
completely black. I could still see all the little yellow rectangles
indicating doors, and my little arrow, but the rest of the map was pure
black. No matter where I went, whether I'd been there before or not, I had
no more map. It didn't happen right away, it was shortly after the lights
first started going crazy, so I didn't connect the two incidents at first.
The second time, I was in the Vivec Arena Canalworks, on my way to visit the
Morag Tong guild, and the thing with the lights happened again. This time I
knew it was no quest. Weird magic-like events may not seem out of place in
a Mage's Guild, but in some random part of the canalworks in Vivec, it's
definitely wrong. Then the same thing happened with the map, shortly after.
This time I noticed that the map was actually not completely black. There
was a very dim, faintly lit circle around where I was standing when the
lights first went out. I saved and reloaded, and it fixed the lights, but
the map problem remained. Only quitting the program entirely and restarting
it gave me back my mapping ability.
It was the third time I decided that this was really starting to be a
problem. Playing Havish, and the lights went out in the temple north of the
city, just starting the quest where I have to fight a bunch of undead in the
tombs. Let's just say that navigating those tombs without the benefit of a
map can be quite complicated.
Has anybody else noticed this behavior or have any ideas what might be
causing it? I'm not running any mods that do anything to the lights, so I
can't think what would be doing this...
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