OFFICIAL Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim (Discussion)

[Wrigleyvillain]

herp derp guy at the sky forge in whiterun aka the smithy above the Companion guild trains you in smithy up to a max of 90 it gets expensive quick.

Uh ok missed that wtf. Though right after posting that found the smith in Riften who does too.

 

[BumbleBee]

The games really fun, stuck on a quest though >< They need some better guidance system!

Here are a few vid's i recorded throughout my travels of skyrim..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnx5jhC35mo&feature=channel_video_title (random dragon encounter)
and my favourite: FUS RO DAH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcXo6Zgw88&feature=channel_video_title

just call it force push lol

 

[trt740]

Hey guy In game I cannot hear anyone talk unless I turn my back to them any idea whats up.

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

Hey guy In game I cannot hear anyone talk unless I turn my back to them any idea whats up.

5.1 sound issues?

 

[helloWorld]

Wonderful when actually looking at this view in game.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

Indeed... the views make for some of the best screenshots i have made since months!

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Hey guy In game I cannot hear anyone talk unless I turn my back to them any idea whats up.

I had a similar problem, turns out I didn't have my centre speaker connected.

 

[Mussels]

I had a similar problem, turns out I didn't have my centre speaker connected.

^ its always this, or people using stereo sound + upmixing

 

[Solaris17]

Does anyone know if they are going to fix the 192khz issue? kinda mad I cant go beyond 44.1. I think its an nvidia problem. Driver related. maybe can ATI guys run 192khz sample rate?

 

[Mussels]

Does anyone know if they are going to fix the 192khz issue? kinda mad I cant go beyond 44.1. I think its an nvidia problem. Driver related. maybe can ATI guys run 192khz sample rate?

i swapped soundcards before and had 96Khz as a default, and it screwed my sound to hell and back, on ATI.


the game was designed for consoles, and they run 16/44 iirc (dolby digitals default)

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

nope sound issue is for everyone solaris,

99% of the bugs your going to run into have been around for about 8 years now lol *Skyrims creation engine is still Gamebryo which is still NetImmerse from Morrowind lol so yea... any bugs you remember from previous games probably still exist in some form, still fun as fuck tho.

the audio issue just seems to be added on top lol you'll have to suck it up for now, they'll patch it just gonna take awhile, patch isnt expected untill after thanksgiving so youll just have to be patient,

i mean could be worse you could be like me...

I tweaked Skyrim to much and officially borked my game have to reinstall and start all over as it corrupted my saves

 

[NinkobEi]

Is 192khz really necessary? Honestly how do you tell the difference? Unless the audio is written as 192khz it gets up-sampled anyway, eliminating any sound quality upgrade. I'm curious what your sound system setup is, Solaris

 

[AphexDreamer]

Ok my game does something weird and I think it might be related to a certain time of day and possably be an issue with shadows but I'm not sure exactly what.

Basiclly the Grass or Rocks will look darker or more sharpend 40 feet infront of me but rocks or grass past that are lighter. So as I walk forward I can see the color change on the rocks/grass.



I have Tweaked my .ini but still not sure if a tweak is causing or if that is normal? I don't notice it all the time so it makes me think it migth be shadow related?

Any Idea what it could be? What setting I should check?

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

thats the shadow LOD and in game lighting

you can increase the shadow draw distance but theres a major penalty

you increase the radius everything gets shadows but as you in crease the radius shadow quality gets worse and worse, increase shadow map size helps to an extent but if you increase the distance it causes up close shadows on your character and self shadowing look worse

so essentially

incrase distance from you shadows are rendered makes the world look better but the more you increase it the more quality suffers. gotta find a happy medium, its an issue with how the Gamebryo / Netimmerse / Creation Engine handles shadows.

 

[Solaris17]

Is 192khz really necessary? Honestly how do you tell the difference? Unless the audio is written as 192khz it gets up-sampled anyway, eliminating any sound quality upgrade. I'm curious what your sound system setup is, Solaris

Are you now?

Bethesda should also hire an english major. Bachelors a min.

 

[DonInKansas]

Are you now?

Bethesda should also hire an english major. Bachelors a min.

All your poison are belong to us!

 

[AphexDreamer]

thats the shadow LOD and in game lighting

you can increase the shadow draw distance but theres a major penalty

you increase the radius everything gets shadows but as you in crease the radius shadow quality gets worse and worse, increase shadow map size helps to an extent but if you increase the distance it causes up close shadows on your character and self shadowing look worse

so essentially

incrase distance from you shadows are rendered makes the world look better but the more you increase it the more quality suffers. gotta find a happy medium, its an issue with how the Gamebryo / Netimmerse / Creation Engine handles shadows.

Can you post your settings along with their values please?

 

[trt740]

I had a similar problem, turns out I didn't have my centre speaker connected.

I have 4 speakers but a bug in the game acts like you have 5.1 no matter what so two speakers had to be turned off. It works fine with two but not 4 speakers.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

LOLOLOLOLOL

Talked to Peter Hines on twitter,

I asked if we would see better shadows on PC, aka increase shadow draw distance while maintaining good self shadowing, since you can only really have one or the other at this point.

He told me Bethesda dosent care about shadows, in fact there OVERRATED, lolz okay Bethesda shadows and lighting which is extremely important for giving life to the world and characters is overrated. and instead your going to push BLOOM + HDR to further wash out colors and make things brighter then they need to be. When modders already pushing the opposite directing because the color palate is already washed out

I love how its the VP of PR that responds to my comments but in reality has no real idea what makes a game look better Thank you Peter Hines for giving me a much needed laugh today.

https://twitter.com/#!/DCDaecon/status/138428170029383682

 

[theJesus]

I have 4 speakers but a bug in the game acts like you have 5.1 no matter what so two speakers had to be turned off. It works fine with two but not 4 speakers.

Yeah, I had that problem a lot with games when I used to have 4 speakers.

LOLOLOLOLOL

Talked to Peter Hines on twitter,

I asked if we would see better shadows on PC, aka increase shadow draw distance while maintaining good self shadowing, since you can only really have one or the other at this point.

He told me Bethesda dosent care about shadows, in fact there OVERRATED, lolz okay Bethesda shadows and lighting which is extremely important for giving life to the world and characters is overrated. and instead your going to push BLOOM + HDR to further wash out colors and make things brighter then they need to be. When modders already pushing the opposite directing because the color palate is already washed out

I love how its the VP of PR that responds to my comments but in reality has no real idea what makes a game look better Thank you Peter Hines for giving me a much needed laugh today.

https://twitter.com/#!/DCDaecon/status/138428170029383682

Oh god you're not joking:
"Next patch will add bloom effects to everything."

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

yup apparently Bethesda honestly has gotten dumber,

dont get me wrong im enjoyying skyrim more then any game i have since Morrowind, but dosent excuse the fact the Game still has the same problems as its now 8 year old predecessor...

also I can say nvidia users can force Ambient Occlusion with Nvidia Inspector. which greatly helps shadowing. currently far as I know for ATI / AMD we dont get that lucky. and yea if i remember years back you could have BLOOM OR HDR not both, why would i want HDR with fake HDR = Bloom to wash shit out more that makes no sense, lol, altho i did burn Peter Hines a bit. Telling Him i guess i was expecting to much from the 8 year old Game Engine there using.

using these settings in nvidia inspector will help shadowing a bit sadly AMD users cant use this tweak I haz a sad

before and after

Can you post your settings along with their values please?

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=4096
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096
iShadowMapResolution=4096

in the skyrim preferences ini in your my games folder in your documents, look for the above 3 settings change them to 4096 make sure your running Ultra Preset, and max the advanced tabs first THEN make the above changes.

 

[DonInKansas]

Ha! Twittertrolled. Pretty sure Hines wins that round.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

how does he win?

The VP of PR essentially just told the world were gonna make are product look more washed out and less pretty then how it shipped lol.

Bloom + HDR usually dosent mix well,

look at the issues in Bad Company 2, HDR + Bloom didnt even work in oblivion period and bloom looked terrible and Skyrim is still the same game engine just new name really lol, after all cant really drastically change it since its still a console port. So I dont really see how he wins, then again im blind someone point out how he wins

 

[DonInKansas]

I'm pretty sure he was messing with you.

 

[theJesus]

I hope he was