Elder Scrolls V SKYRIM !! 11-11-11

[Wrigleyvillain]

Yeah. It was the hardest and worst thing I've had to do so far in my life. Only 9 and still all there mentally and such but her back legs just wouldn't work anymore. Not hip dysplasia or something physical but Vet thought moreso the neural connections to that area. In the end she couldn't even stand or do her business properly. It was awful.

We really miss her.

 

[Black Panther]

Dangit man I'm so sorry. I went through the same ordeal exactly this time last year. Strangely enough with our dog his back legs gave way, but blood tests showed severe kidney failure and suddenly he was drifting in and out of coma. He didn't respond to treatment of fluid injection, and we couldn't bear to see him suffering

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On a different note...

This video is really awesome - no spoilers in it, don't worry. I have to try that out. I wonder if I do it to the guards... will they be able to see me?

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

and we couldn't bear to see him suffering

Yeah thats what it comes down to...

And when she can't sense her bladder is full until it finally just releases on it's own wtf are we supposed to do?

Back on track now...I will be loading up Skyrim in 12 hours woooooooooooo

 

[Horrux]

Yeah. It was the hardest and worst thing I've had to do so far in my life. Only 9 and still all there mentally and such but her back legs just wouldn't work anymore. Not hip dysplasia or something physical but Vet thought moreso the neural connections to that area. In the end she couldn't even stand or do her business properly. It was awful.

We really miss her.

My honest condolences. I had to have my best friend of 14 years put down in January and still think about the short time I had him almost daily. AND I have 3 other dogs. It's unbelievably hard.

Back to gaming for ya, time will soothe the pain.

 

[Black Panther]

I will be loading up Skyrim in 12 hours woooooooooooo

I'll have to check because I'm not sure if I'll get it at midnight or at 1 AM. It's 7:30 pm here and Steam says the game will unlock in "approximately 6 hours". Anyway I'm not going to stay up and really start gaming at that time, after a long hard day at work But I did take tomorrow off... to game!

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I've got a nagging doubt:

The minimum system requirements for Skyrim is a dual core processor. Which is what I have, though mine's oc'd to 4Ghz.
Do you think my processor being a dual core minimum allow the graphics card to render.... ummm... everything at ultra (with the exception of anti-aliasing which I don't care about)... @ 2560x1440 resolution?

To be honest I think I'm expecting a bit too much. My card's a 5970 which is powerful enough... at least for Fallout NV I could game at 2560x1440 on ultra, with 2x AA and never go beneath 45fps. I wonder how Skyrim would be...

If I have to lower the resolution, say go 1080p then I will be forced to use anti-aliasing and that would really use up from the card's 1GB vram...

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

My honest condolences. I had to have my best friend of 14 years put down in January and still think about the short time I had him almost daily. AND I have 3 other dogs. It's unbelievably hard.

Back to gaming for ya, time will soothe the pain.

Yeah...we also have since acquired a cat that needed a home. I'm a dog person at heart but it's helping the healing process a little. He's cool and friendly. And at least the place doesn't seem so damn empty.

I'll have to check because I'm not sure if I'll get it at midnight or at 1 AM. It's 7:30 pm here and Steam says the game will unlock in "approximately 6 hours". Anyway I'm not going to stay up and really start gaming at that time, after a long hard day at work But I did take tomorrow off... to game!

At 11PM CST last night my Steam page said "1 day and 1 hour".

 

[twicksisted]

Does anyone know what time it will unlock on steam for UK?
technically midnight will be 11.11.11 but im guessing as always steam will be a few hours late with that. Have they made any official statement as to what time it unlocks?

 

[Frizz]

Well I wrote that when I thought it was region locked, period, but this place still seems like a lot of trouble going back to BF3. Though I also didn't think it was as much as half off.

FYI BF3 was half price 30USD and worked 100% being activated through a RU VPN and then never needing to use the VPN again I managed to save money for Skyrim. The trouble is worth it here in Australia, we pay for games at alot higher prices compared to US especially for physical copies which can reach double of US' full retail price.

 

[Flibolito]

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[Black Panther]

Does anyone know what time it will unlock on steam for UK?
technically midnight will be 11.11.11 but im guessing as always steam will be a few hours late with that. Have they made any official statement as to what time it unlocks?

Well, the official time it will unlock is midnight.

At least you don't have daylight saving time... In my case, it's 8PM here and Steam just updated saying it will unlock in 5 hours, meaning it's gonna unlock at 1AM instead of midnight for me..

 

[erocker]

So its a buggy console port after all?

No. It's an Elder Scrolls game.

 

[Black Panther]

Comparison screenshots on low, medium, high and ultra

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Medium

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High

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Ultra

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[Edit: not my own screenshots but found off the net]

 

[twicksisted]

Excuse my lazyness for not figuring out this myself, but is Skyrim DX10 only?
All of the buildings and caves would work so well with the tesselation effects of DX11

 

[Frizz]

Apparently the region lock is only temporary until it turns 11.11.11 in the US, heres to hoping!

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Yeah BP just saw your edit...idk about a dual core with what's essentially a crossfire setup and a pretty high res. Frankly, I'm surprised you didn't pick up a used quad awhile ago. My wicked little e8400 was sadly forced into retirement once BC2 dropped.

Not saying for sure you won't be able to play but two more cores would really help.

 

[The Witcher]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW, just played the game for an hour.......

The thing I liked the most is the new improved menus !

I maxed every possible settings and I got something like 30 to 50 fps, but it seems that Vsync is automatically on (I mean implemented in the game) because the input lag is quite tremendous. So yeah, the graphics are top notch for a DX9 game, though the characters skin still doesn't look that good compared to the surroundings. Sigh, I guess am gonna leave it for now and finish Morrowind and Oblivion first, didn't have time to finish the first one and I lost my savefile in the second.

Oh one last thing, I didn't quit the game, it suddenly crashed......typical from a Bethesda game I guess.........they really need better coders.....

 

[douglatins]

DAMN it, i mean i am playing dark souls, which is Fukawesome, so i like FUUUUU which one i choose nowwww.
Now is something egotistical of me, but i wish this game was more like morrowind, in the sense of like more of a cult game not a huge blockbuster COD type. I dont like to share stuff that good with just about anyone.

To guy below, i expect those HUGE ASS texture packs.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Thank god for mod support. Not claiming we will see, like, DX11 but you never know what these guys are capable of until they do it.

 

[twicksisted]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW, just played the game for an hour.......
Sigh, I guess am gonna leave it for now and finish Morrowind and Oblivion first

Why? its not like you have to play the first two to understand the game... besides those two old games are pretty dated now and dont look all that good anymore

 

[Black Panther]

Yeah BP just saw your edit...idk about a dual core with what's essentially a crossfire setup and a pretty high res. Frankly, I'm surprised you didn't pick up a used quad awhile ago. My wicked little e8400 was sadly forced into retirement once BC2 dropped.

Not saying for sure you won't be able to play but two more cores would really help.

I do have the quad of my laptop - it's a Q9450 desktop processor. I could very easily swap proc's and put the E8400 in laptop and the Q9450 in desktop. But I'm going to see how the game runs on the E8400 before going through all the trouble.

Why? its not like you have to play the first two to understand the game... besides those two old games are pretty dated now and dont look all that good anymore

Not really. You can understand the game, no problem but that's not the issue. I tried playing Morrowind after Oblivion and I just couldn't. The text-based discussions were too immersion-breaking. And the graphics waaay too poor compared to Oblivion (though they can be improved with mods) Anyway I never managed to play more than 30 minutes of Morrowind and am really sad that I hadn't discovered that game before Oblivion. The same could happen to The Witcher (the writer not the game ) were he to play Skyrim first...

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

I do have the quad of my laptop - it's a Q9450 desktop processor. I could very easily swap proc's and put the E8400 in laptop and the Q9450 in desktop. But I'm going to see how the game runs on the E8400 before going through all the trouble.

Oh excellent. Surprised you didn't mention that as you sounded worried you'd have perf issues and could not play.

 

[The Witcher]

I do have the quad of my laptop - it's a Q9450 desktop processor. I could very easily swap proc's and put the E8400 in laptop and the Q9450 in desktop. But I'm going to see how the game runs on the E8400 before going through all the trouble.



Not really. You can understand the game, no problem but that's not the issue. I tried playing Morrowind after Oblivion and I just couldn't. The text-based discussions were too immersion-breaking. And the graphics waaay too poor compared to Oblivion (though they can be improved with mods) Anyway I never managed to play more than 30 minutes of Morrowind and am really sad that I hadn't discovered that game before Oblivion. The same could happen to The Witcher (the writer not the game ) were he to play Skyrim first...

That's basically what happened...the game is too dated for me, but I don't want to storm into the 5th game without even finishing the 3rd and the 4th (is this the correct order ?).

The first time I played Oblivion was in last year though I did hear about the game a long time ago.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Yeah I too wish I had discovered Morrowind before Oblivion. This genre was just not on my radar back in those days. I got like halfway through it twice, once in 2007 unmodded and again in 2009 heavily modded following one of the extensive guides. Took a whole day and many test launches in between mod installs. It really did look fantastic for what it had been and is a great game and world but again I somehow lost interest. That was also around the beginning of Steam sales too though and suddenly I had so many more good games than I ever did or could have before and too little time for them all.

Still have the modded Morrowind folder and saves though. Just have to reinstall app(s) then replace folder. I'll go back to it someday. Maybe on a laptop.

 

[MatTheCat]

ALREADY PLAYING SKYRIM!

This may seem like a stupid question but in Skyrim, does your character have his own voice or is it like every single other Bethesda RPG in the past, where the heroes' have no voice?

 

[Fourstaff]

I don't mean to be rude, but I cannot really see the difference between Low and Ultra. Or Am I just blind?