Xbox 360 Weapon Rack/Plaque Problem's Answer

[mike faulkner]

so far me and my friends have come to the conclusion it is from entering the house after u buy it, but without getting the decorations. it seems that if u enter before u do so, which with the house in Windhelm its almost impossible not to(quest related) that it acts as if its part of the wall and not a weapon rack/plaque, if u try it on the house in whiterun before any civil war mission, dont
go in untill u have already bought the decorations. caution is advised for every house because this can happen with any and all houses, tested multiple times, different characters, before and after shutting off xbox and reloading save, ect. also tested through 3 people on my friendslist, all come to the same conclusion without any for mentioning of said idea

if someone else would like to test this theory and repost under mine plz do so for validity and if this is an answer to the rack problems plz bump also remember to not go in at all untill u bought the decorations to make sure ur submission is valid

plz note, i havent actually tested this part, but if u buy the area with the weapon racks and nothing else, there is a chance it may work, but any other decoration bought that has a weapon plaque may still not work, validity for this would be nice as well

 

[Evris]

I have been plagued by the same bug (playing on PS3) and your hypothesis had never occurred to me. But it's true! Entering the house before upgrading it must somehow be the cause of the bug. On my first file, I have totally unusable weapon racks in Whiterun and Riften. I entered both houses before furnishing them.

On my second and third characters, I had saves from before buying a house. I just tested it with both. In both cases, if I entered the house first I had unusable weapon racks. But if I bought the upgrades before entering, they all worked perfectly.

So the solution to the bugged racks is evidently to upgrade everything (or at least all the upgrades involving weapon racks) before entering the house. Of course, this is very annoying and basically unfixable for anyone who already has bugged houses, since obviously no one wants to revert to a save so far back (if they even have one).

Still, you figured it out, so thanks a lot for that. At least I know what to avoid in the future. Hopefully they'll patch this up... but I won't hold my breath.

 

[vincent]

The house in Markarth on the xbox didn't have any such problems. I went in before upgrading anything. I got pissed that I didnt have anything then went back, bought everything and everything works. I do have those problems with the Proudspire Manor in Solitude though.

 

[mike faulkner]

a few seconds ago xbox had an update to Skyrim, im going to see if this glitch is still in or if they have fixed it, unless someone can point me in the direction of a website with the details of the update would save me some time

 

[mike faulkner]

Nope, this newest update wasnt for the houses, but ill keep trying each update to let everyone know if its finally fixed lol

 

[Ben Franklin]

Faukner's fix sounds feasible, except, as he said, for the windhelm house(the house I was planning on making my main one T.T) which you need to enter to do a quest, in order to decorate the house ..Since so many people have been having this problem, one would hope the weapon rack/wall mount thing is going to be fixed in a more permanent way.. My question is if anyone knows/thinks its possible a patch will take care of this for existing saves, or will it be a "this will work on your next character" fix, cuz that would bum me out in a huuuge way..Also 1.3 totally didnt fix it, but I think beth was focusing more on performance issues, especially on ps3. Just wondering about the future.

 

[mike faulkner]

yes i agree the fix would be nice for current characters, and windhelm is like the best one if only u could use the racks and such i still have noticed if u remove a weapon from a rack or try to put one on it that wont fit such as some daedric artifact weapons itll break the rack, not permanently just to the point u have to look at it a certain way, in my case i have to sneak and look at the bottom of the plaque on the wall and look at the very edge of it for the options to put the weapon on the rack, i havent extensively tested this i abandonded the character shortly after due to wanting a new play style lol

but i have encountered this before after some of the new patches, that i didnt think didnt have anything to do with the houses it still caused this problem, lol thats the problem about games like this u can find a fix for one thing but possible cause problems somewhere else

given enough time and possibly more flow to my forum thread it is possible that skyrim code writers might see this and try and find a new fix to these problems, keeping this thread relatively new every couple weeks is also helpful, just dont want to get it locked for trying to bump it lol

 

[lang345]

so far me and my friends have come to the conclusion it is from entering the house after u buy it, but without getting the decorations. it seems that if u enter before u do so, which with the house in Windhelm its almost impossible not to(quest related) that it acts as if its part of the wall and not a weapon rack/plaque, if u try it on the house in whiterun before any civil war mission, dont
go in untill u have already bought the decorations. caution is advised for every house because this can happen with any and all houses, tested multiple times, different characters, before and after shutting off xbox and reloading save, ect. also tested through 3 people on my friendslist, all come to the same conclusion without any for mentioning of said idea

if someone else would like to test this theory and repost under mine plz do so for validity and if this is an answer to the rack problems plz bump also remember to not go in at all untill u bought the decorations to make sure ur submission is valid

plz note, i havent actually tested this part, but if u buy the area with the weapon racks and nothing else, there is a chance it may work, but any other decoration bought that has a weapon plaque may still not work, validity for this would be nice as well

i'm afraid this isn't exactly true... i bought my house and upgrades at the same time (i always do.)

but i can only use about 3/4 of the weapon racks in the game

 

[Gemini Sierra]

but i can only use about 3/4 of the weapon racks in the game

I've found that most of the weapon racks that look like there are four or more slots, only two will work.
Solitude has on of these in the basement.
that was annoying.

 

[Dragon Bourne]

I can't use any of the racks in the basement of Solitude. Sucks, I need them too!

 

[lang345]

seems that in Proudspire manor, the wall displays do work if you do it a certain way...on the ones where there's a dual weapon and shield display on top and a single weap on bottom if you take everything off the top one, you can then use the bottom, then put stuff on top afterwards.

 

[Kablewee]

I've found that most of the weapon racks that look like there are four or more slots, only two will work.
Solitude has on of these in the basement.
that was annoying.

yeah that is annoying, makes it look unfinished and I hate that lol

 

[OutKast]

i had houses in whiterun and solitude before the 1.3 patch. couldnt use any of the weapon racks/ plaques. after the patch, bought Vindrel Hall. everything works perfectly (except for those stupid mannequinns! Why do they turn invisible when you put stuff on them???)

i moved all my weapons and armor to Vindrel Hall to diplay. so i think it has something to do with before/after the v1.3 patch.....idk for sure though...just speculation.

 

[Gemini Sierra]

Why do they turn invisible when you put stuff on them???

It's part of the mannequin conspiracy! When you're not paying attention they knock stuff off your shelves and leer at you at night.

 

[OutKast]

LOL!

 

[Dragon Bourne]

I have had some luck making them visible by adding then taking back any randowm necklace. They still do pull the invisible man thing once in a while but not as often.

 

[shadowwphoenixx]

I have this problem in Vlindrel Hall (armoury), Proudspire Manor (basement), Riften (everywhere -_-) and possibly my bed rack in Breezehome, anyone know of a solution yet?

 

[Ordo]

I started the game off with patch 1.3, but I can still only get the weapon racks in Honeyside and the dagger racks in Hjerim to work, and everything else is unusable. Supposedly, the 1.4 patch fixes this, but I'm not sure if it is new houses or purchased houses that are fixed.

 

[lang345]

i play on PC, and found that some of the plaques already had stuff on them or when i put something on then, i left to knock out some of the side quests and returned with the same problem and found that if i used the Console t0o move the actual plaques back ( say from Y pos. 201 to Y pos. 200) the plaques worked properly again.x.. it seems the placeholder for the Plaque activators sometimes hides the activator and renders the plaques useless... other times i was goofing off with the "TCL" command in one of my houses (Hjerim) i noticed that some of the items i placed on plaques had moved and were hid in the wall partially behind the enchanting table and beneath the stairs. simply move the swords back into place in front of the plaque and take them off and replace them then leave and re-enter and it's working again.

 

[Skyriman]

Faukner's fix sounds feasible, except, as he said, for the windhelm house(the house I was planning on making my main one T.T) which you need to enter to do a quest, in order to decorate the house ..Since so many people have been having this problem, one would hope the weapon rack/wall mount thing is going to be fixed in a more permanent way.. My question is if anyone knows/thinks its possible a patch will take care of this for existing saves, or will it be a "this will work on your next character" fix, cuz that would bum me out in a huuuge way..Also 1.3 totally didnt fix it, but I think beth was focusing more on performance issues, especially on ps3. Just wondering about the future.

I have all of my weapons and apparel at the house in Windhelm, I placed weapons in the cases and when I returned they had disappeared (keening), I was quite upset..Then I was just fooling around and casted Blizzard, it threw everything in the house around! went down the stairs and there it was! Try it out might work for people who have lost things due to the weapon racks bugs!