the top of my head textures always have an odd swirl thing at the top and i want to know how to get rid of it

get the ray tracing off in options that should fix

nope still there
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i have to turn off shaders for it not to have it

Could send a screen , so we can know what u mean by "odd swirl thing" ?

I would but the game crashes when i try too

Shader heads and non-shader heads have weird mapping properties.
Head with shaders will have the swirl, non-shaders have proper mapping.
It's basically just a glitch.

http://imageshack.com/a/img543/4272/maju.png
here, the part highlighted yellow is what dissapears leaving a gap
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to be clear not the gray thats a little yellow just that greeen part highlighted