OFFICIAL Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim (Discussion)

[crazyeyesreaper]

http://www.bethblog.com/2011/12/07/skyrim-update-1-3-now-on-steam/
Update 1.3 for Skyrim is now available on Steam and is being submitted to Sony and Microsoft. As soon as we have more information on the update hitting PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, we’ll let everyone know. Below are the release notes for the update:

Update 1.3 Notes (all platforms unless specified)
•General stability improvements
•Optimize performance for Core 2 Duo CPUs (PC)
•Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles
•Fixed magic resistances not calculating properly
•Fixed issue with placing books on bookshelves inside player purchased homes
•Fixed dragon animation issues with saving and loading
•Fixed Y-look input to scale correctly with framerate

We’re also planning on rolling out support for 4-Gigabyte Tuning (Large Address Aware) next week for our PC users. Stay tuned!

really bethesda is going to add 4gb LAA to there PC game on there own accord? I find this hard to believe but if they do, it makes me feel even better about unloading on there support staff on 3 different tiers.

It also means my biggest gripe with the game aka getting crossfire working with the 4gb mod is no longer an issue, driver improvements and xfire support should kick in properly now.

all thats left is for bethesda to drop the retarded CPU shadows and swap to GPU shadows and skyrim could be modded to be the best looking game out there.

 

[BrooksyX]

Anyone know if this patch fixes menus in eyefinity?

 

[Frick]

Sounds to me like you just dont enjoy "role-playing games." Maybe should stick to FPS til your tastes mature (Snap)

I do enjoy them, at least the more classical ones.

When you exaggerate and simplify any story can be made to look ridiculous. when there are HUNDREDS of side quests and stories, not every one will be the Iliad. And no, it is not as deep a story as Witcher for example, but that is not the point of the game. Elder Scrolls are not "RPGs" , though i understand how it can be confused. They are open world fantasy action if anything. by design, They do not force a role on you, and so are not role playing games. the difference is, there is freedom to play a role IF you want. You weave the story with your actions, not just the narrative provided. imagination?

Well the quests are that, but with more complicated words. And fetch quests you are given because .. i don't know. This is not limited to Bethsofts games mind you, pretty much all games does this at some point. And about weaving the story with my actions, that works very well in Dwarf Fortress. But the thing is Skyrim have a lot of story. As you say, there are hundreds of side quests (which if badly written are more cumbersome than fun) and while you can just ignore them that doesn't really lead anywhere except, as seen from pictures in this forum, filling rooms with cheese or getting cooler looking armor. Which for me are no reasons to continue playing.

Frick doesn't enjoy anything. One of these days I'm going to make a compilation quote of everytime he has said he didn't like something. I figure I'll have a lot of it. It doesn't help that he had been mocking Skyrim before he started, walk in with the glass half empty, it's hard to change a decision like that.

Hey, I did like some things of the game. The exploring part is very fun, and the stuff I said above, but that together is not enough to make me want to continue playing. Well I could "finish" the game, if you can do that, but I don't want to. I do have harsh opinions about Bethsoft (mostly becuse Oblivion and Fallout 3 left me quite unhappy) but I think after more than 15 hours into the game I think I've given it a fair shot.

And I know I've been bitchy about it, and i do apologise for that. I will try not to do so in the future. We cool?

 

[MainframeTM]

What resolution are you running and what is your avg fps?

1920x1080 - i've not averaged my fps but have not had any slow downs and only 1 crash so far.

 

[Black Panther]

I never crash if I play at 1920x1080. But at 2560x1440 with vanilla game I crash every 15 minutes. Needless to say, with the texture mods I installed I can't even run the game at 2560x1440 without the 4GB mod, I'd crash to desktop within seconds.

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I'm still getting the green flashing menus. I reinstalled 11.11c in vain, deleted skyrimprefs,ini and skyrim.ini in vain too... Though at least my fps went down to normal i.e. not going above 60 with vsync. Now I deleted the entire texture folder to get rid of any mods, and basically am re-downloading the game again. (Duh I noticed I had deleted 4GB of stuff only after I did it, and it was too large for the recycle bin. I am that blonde sometimes... )

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@ Frick

Guess what, the most I like in this game is the exploring, freely wandering about, the non-linearity of the quests, the fact that if I'm not in the mood to fight I can simply sneak my way and hide around . . .

I've just passed my 100th hour of gameplay, and haven't really got into the main quest at all. I'm still supposed to "go to Riverwood and speak with Delphine".

This game's really worth the money for me.
I look at the games I bought for €10 for Steam, nice games but which I finished in 3-5 days.
Skyrim's been out for 27 days now, I've been playing it nearly daily and clocked 100 hours, and I haven't even done 15% of the game yet (I calculated this very roughly by reading titles of quests which I haven't encountered in the game). And I'm still on my first original character.

If the price for this game were to be proportionate to that of other games like Limbo or Portal which I finished in less than 20 hours I think it would cost like €600 (I mean to say that other games are relatively expensive vis-a-vis a game like Skyrim)

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On the other hand it's a bit tiring, I've been spending a lot of time tweaking the game... it doesn't make sense that someone with my same specs and a mid-range VGA gets better fps than me... And when I got everything nearly perfect... the menus start flashing green I've been googling this problem and the only people apparently suffering from this issue are the ones using eyefinity I'm not running a high resolution of eyefinity

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Edit: Finally got rid of the flashing menus by removing all the 4GB LAA fix from my Skyrim steam folder.

I don't think I'll re-install mods since Bethesda said they'll be releasing a 4GB LAA exe next week. I'll be doing the texture mods after then. And now I'll play vanilla. Hopefully I can do so without C2D at full resolution . . .

 

[Ahhzz]

We’re also planning on rolling out support for 4-Gigabyte Tuning (Large Address Aware) next week for our PC users. Stay tuned!

Holy Crap!!!! I may have a freaking heart attack!!!


course, it would be nice to better utilize all cores and the 8gb, plus the crossfire, but then, I really only built this PC to play Skyrim, so what does it matt-.... hmmm....

 

[human_error]

I'm concerned that my game is broken - 65 hours in and not a single random dragon spotted. In the main storyline I've done some of the quests, so I don't think that's it...

Spoiler

I've gotten to the point where a horn I was meant to collect is missing and I find a note to meet someone in an inn or something. That follows the first time I have met the greybeards.

I really, really hope I don't have to start the game again if it is a bug...

 

[Mussels]

thank god for LAA patch.


my net is thoroughly choked so bad downloading this patch, that i cant even load more than one webpage at a time >.> need real interwebz

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

its a main quest issue i think just do that quest and it should reset itself and be back to normal

 

[Widjaja]

I'm concerned that my game is broken - 65 hours in and not a single random dragon spotted. In the main storyline I've done some of the quests, so I don't think that's it...

Spoiler

I've gotten to the point where a horn I was meant to collect is missing and I find a note to meet someone in an inn or something. That follows the first time I have met the greybeards.

I really, really hope I don't have to start the game again if it is a bug...

That is a long time to not see any dragons randomly flying about.
I don't encounter many, much of the time they spawn over towns and cities when I fast travel.

 

[Darkleoco]

Hey I ahve a question im trying to DL STEP i was under the impression it was like the MGE a pack of workable mods that made skyrim look better. But I cant seem to find it? am i wrong? I looked on skyrim nexus and its all a bunch of ini tweaks or the injector. I dont understand the change log says he added a bunch of mods etc. But their isnt a way to DL it? are you supposed to get them all seperately? I dont understand. If thats the case its a guide to making skyrim better imo.

In the STEP page he links to all of the mods he is suggesting, you have to download them and install them from their respective pages.

 

[Delta6326]

Has anybody had this weird glitch?

 

[Darkleoco]

Has anybody had this weird glitch?

http://img.techpowerup.org/111207/Capture028070.jpg

Does it do that with all of your fires

 

[Irony]

Does it do that with all of your fires

His candle looks the same. His flames are pixelated; I never knew fire was naked.

 

[Delta6326]

Yes and any type of smoke/fog/haz/cloud

EDIT" this started happening after todays patch 1.3 or something like that

 

[human_error]

its a main quest issue i think just do that quest and it should reset itself and be back to normal

Thanks - I did the next 2 parts of the questline and suddenly dragons. Killed 2 elders already (they're easy as I've got 94 bow skill already). Were they meant to appear before that point in the quest? (I assume so as all the advice I read was that they should appear sooner).

Has anybody had this weird glitch?

*snipped pic*

I've seen a wierd shadow cast on my housecarl in breezehome which looked as if there were a wierd mesh over the fire, but I couldn't see any mesh at all (it looks like that distortion in the screenshot would have cast the shadow I saw). This is only after the latest 1.3 patch.

 

[Mussels]

I've seen a wierd shadow cast on my housecarl in breezehome which looked as if there were a wierd mesh over the fire, but I couldn't see any mesh at all (it looks like that distortion in the screenshot would have cast the shadow I saw). This is only after the latest 1.3 patch.

i have seen the really weird shadow effect on several NPC's in breezehome, standing near the fire.

 

[Black Panther]

i have seen the really weird shadow effect on several NPC's in breezehome, standing near the fire.

Is it like concentric circles of rippling shadows?

I see that too. Only in Breezehome in Whiterun.

Edit: and in another place too. Only those 2 interiors so far. The second place is the shop of a really stuck-up trader in Solitude who wants to sell me 'good clothes' to wear in the Blue Palace.

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Currently running game entirely vanilla. Thank heavens the green strobes no longer appear in the menu at least. On 11.11c, getting lowish fps in towns again now, and with no mods. I'll try to bear this till next week until Bethesda release their own LAA for the game.

 

[ufgy20]

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[theJesus]

I used to like dubstep. Then I took a wub wub wub WUB wuuuub WuuUUb wub in the wub.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Somehow, my skyrimpref ini properties are not loading correctly in game after the patch.. and 'datafiles' in the startup seemed to be greyed out...

Anyone else have this?

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

each patch seems to break ini settings delete them reload game let it detect settings, then reset it to what you want, after that close out reedit the ini files to what you want, and should solve it.

 

[Frizz]

On the patch notes what did they mean by "General Stability Improvements"?

 

[ViperXTR]

official LAA?

for real?

D:

*grins at 8Gb ram* >8D

 

[theJesus]

official LAA?

for real?

D:

*grins at 8Gb ram* >8D

Correct me if I'm wrong, but LAA still won't use more than 4gb will it?