MadHalaster

Just wanted to comment that I encountered the same issue. After I killed him nothing happened, and there was no choice or reward. Went up stairs and gained control of the Stronghold. Never had any option related to Maerwald.

The only one I know of is MSAA 0 to disable Anti-Aliasing.

The issue has been addressed for me. The issue was not directly my OS, but in a way it was. I updated to the latest Windows 10 Build, which triggered a download of a new Nvidia driver which is not actually available to download yet directly from Nvidia. As soon as the new drivers installed from Nvidia the problem went away. The working driver version is 349.65.

I have been able to reproduce the issue on both Windows 8.1 and on Windows 10. I am fairly sure the OS in my case does not matter, and it would happen with any version of windows. It is the video card. This is only happening with this game though, and nothing else, which is the unfortunate part. I have tried three different versions of video card drivers as well. Some months old, up to the newest which are weeks old.

I have tracked down more information related to this issue. I am able to get around it on my Laptop by forcing the game to ignore the Nvidia card and use the integrated Intel graphics card. Unfortunately performance is pretty abysmal with the integrated card versus the Nvidia card. The issue itself appears to be related to transparency. Blood, stealthing, and so on. Anything that adds a transparent effect to things is pink instead.

Here is another image of the issue. This is just the start of the game, and it is just too much. I am going to wait for this to be addressed before I continue with the game further. I have waited too long for the game to ruin it by playing with such a glaring issue.

I have this exact same issue. It is quite annoying. Pink all over the place. I do not really want to play the game this way, as it is beyond distracting and takes away from the experience. Corpses, characters, the pig. This is the only game I see this problem on as well. I am running with a 2GB Quadro K1100M video card on a Thinkpad W540 laptop. Video card drivers are the latest: 347.88