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[Alsisgevat]

Maybe with the official Nvidia update, they will add more effects and upgrade performance, I think they are waiting for the patch first, then they can work of that?

 

[Gromit1710]

Has anyone used this beta driver with any of the visual improvement mods from Nexus? Like the post processing injector or the texture packs?

And +1 to the warrior. I've been a Ebony axe, Ebony Shield and Blades/Ebony accessories guy for a while now. I picked up the Masque of Clavicus Vile a while ago. It's ugly as all hell, but it's improved my speech nicely for better pricing.

That brings up a good question. Where do you all offload your spoils at? Every time I return home to Whiterun, I bankrupt both my wife's store and also the general goods store.

Some of the items I have in my chest at home I can't even get full price for because none of the stores have that much money available!

 

[Alsisgevat]

I just sell them at the thieves guild, when your the leader they seem to have lots of gold lol

 

[Gromit1710]

I just sell them at the thieves guild, when your the leader they seem to have lots of gold lol

yeah.. I haven't gone to far with the thieves guild quests. I think I'm stuck at trying to get translation book from the old coot in city way out west. Apparently you're supposed to sneak in there past all the guards, snag the book , then get out.

I can't even seem to get past them with an invisibility potion. They catch me as soon as I take 5 steps in the door.

 

[Airbot]

AH! Everything's turning purple again!!

Sadly, I didn't see any mention of fixing that particular bug in the upcoming patch.





Yeah, the shadowing is a little better. You can see differences in my pics where it's circled.


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[fseal]

I just sell them at the thieves guild, when your the leader they seem to have lots of gold lol

Interesting... a serious reason to join them

So no "mudcrab merchant" found yet?

Edit: I've run into M'aiq the Liar several times now but so far said nothing particularly intreging.

 

[Gromit1710]

AH! Everything's turning purple again!!

Sadly, I didn't see any mention of fixing that particular bug in the upcoming patch.

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Yeah, the shadowing is a little better. You can see differences in my pics where it's circled.


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No no no.. that's just purple snow.... It's supposed to be there.....

Oh, and I did read something on the 'net somewhere about the texture issue being caused by having too many saved games. Some guy claimed that by cleaning out his saved games folder, it solved the texture issues. ...

It makes no logical sense to me however. . . .

 

[fseal]

The save games add up FAST. And they get larger and larger the further you go, miner are up to about 12 meg each at this point. I curently have 3 gigs of saves and I save over old saves 9 out of 10 times. If I saved new every time it'd be 30 gig by now easy.

 

[Airbot]

Some guy claimed that by cleaning out his saved games folder, it solved the texture issues. ...

It makes no logical sense to me however. . . .

Already did that. Had no effect.

 

[Gromit1710]

Some guy claimed that by cleaning out his saved games folder, it solved the texture issues. ...

It makes no logical sense to me however. . . .

Already did that. Had no effect.

yeah.. figured it was too easy to be true.

 

[fseal]

Some guy claimed that by cleaning out his saved games folder, it solved the texture issues. ...

It makes no logical sense to me however. . . .

Already did that. Had no effect.

Other off the cuff possibilities:

Did you try the "Verify Texture Cache" option on the start up menu?

Also, might want to try the large address aware mod? Especially if you added any texture mods.

Watch the temp of your GPU? but even that may nt be enough, try putting extra fans blowing on the card, ram could be overheating ahead of the GPU itself...

I have to turn my fans up to max when playing...

 

[Gromit1710]

Some guy claimed that by cleaning out his saved games folder, it solved the texture issues. ...

It makes no logical sense to me however. . . .

Already did that. Had no effect.

Other off the cuff possibilities:

Did you try the "Verify Texture Cache" option on the start up menu?

Also, might want to try the large address aware mod? Especially if you added any texture mods.

Watch the temp of your GPU? but even that may nt be enough, try putting extra fans blowing on the card, ram could be overheating ahead of the GPU itself...

I have to turn my fans up to max when playing...

I haven't had too many problems with the purple cancer. I saw it once, early on with some trees. Other than that, no problems. I've been running the LAA most of the time I've been playing it. And MSI Afterburner reports that temps on my GPU's are running about normal. 75 to 80 on GPU 1 and 65 to 70 on GPU 2 during gameplay.

 

[sygnus21]

Oh, and I did read something on the 'net somewhere about the texture issue being caused by having too many saved games. Some guy claimed that by cleaning out his saved games folder, it solved the texture issues.

I posted it here a few days back - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-6.html#post1672478

Just thought about something....

If you have a large save folder - C:\Users\UserName\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves, try deleting, or moving some of the older save files somewhere else.

I posted this suggestion for Fallout 3 a while back as it seemed to cure a lot of crashes for me. What I usually did in Fallout 3 was move all but the last 10-15 saves, after that my crashes subsided until the folder ballooned again (I do a lot of saving).

I don't know about clearing "texture" issues but it does help with the crashing issues. And yeah, those save files add up quick if you save often.

BTW I asked a question about the latest ATI drives a few pages back -

Also has anyone with an ATI card tried the 11.11b drivers? Thoughts?

Thanks.

Anybody?

Thanks

 

[Gromit1710]

Oh, and I did read something on the 'net somewhere about the texture issue being caused by having too many saved games. Some guy claimed that by cleaning out his saved games folder, it solved the texture issues.

I posted it here a few days back - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-6.html#post1672478

Just thought about something....

If you have a large save folder - C:\Users\UserName\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves, try deleting, or moving some of the older save files somewhere else.

I posted this suggestion for Fallout 3 a while back as it seemed to cure a lot of crashes for me. What I usually did in Fallout 3 was move all but the last 10-15 saves, after that my crashes subsided until the folder ballooned again (I do a lot of saving).

I don't know about clearing "texture" issues but it does help with the crashing issues. And yeah, those save files add up quick if you save often.

BTW I asked a question about the latest ATI drives a few pages back -

Also has anyone with an ATI card tried the 11.11b drivers? Thoughts?

Thanks.

Anybody?

Thanks

Ahh.. it was crashing, not textures. My bad. That's why it didn't make logical sense to me!

 

[Airbot]

Some guy claimed that by cleaning out his saved games folder, it solved the texture issues. ...

It makes no logical sense to me however. . . .

Already did that. Had no effect.

Other off the cuff possibilities:

Did you try the "Verify Texture Cache" option on the start up menu?

Also, might want to try the large address aware mod? Especially if you added any texture mods.

Watch the temp of your GPU? but even that may nt be enough, try putting extra fans blowing on the card, ram could be overheating ahead of the GPU itself...

I have to turn my fans up to max when playing...

Did you try the "Verify Texture Cache" option on the start up menu?

Huh? Was not aware of any "verify texture cache" option anywhere?

Only "verify integrity of game cache" in Steam. Already did that before anyways. After they broke the LAA patch.

Also, might want to try the large address aware mod? Especially if you added any texture mods.

Did use it at the beginning, until they sent out that 18MB update to Skyrim that broke the LAA patch and tied the TESV.exe to Steam.

Haven't used the "4GB patch" on skyrimnexus you have to use now if you want that to work.

Watch the temp of your GPU? but even that may nt be enough, try putting extra fans blowing on the card, ram could be overheating ahead of the GPU itself...

Have an aftermarket Accelero Xtreme cooler on my card, and watch the temps in real time on a gadget on another monitor. No overheating there.

Thanks for the suggestions though. It's a quite common bug seen by a lot of other users (browsing the interwebz).

 

[vierasniper]

I just sell them at the thieves guild, when your the leader they seem to have lots of gold lol

Interesting... a serious reason to join them

So no "mudcrab merchant" found yet?

Edit: I've run into M'aiq the Liar several times now but so far said nothing particularly intreging.

poor m'aiq, he burned his sweetroll

 

[Airbot]

First time seeing this unoffical bug list. Already seen many of them there. Even have the purple bug listed. lol

* Some textures will not load at all, showing the normal maps instead (which look like huge blue/purple textures) - eg screen.

Buglist so far (Thread #3) - Bethesda Softworks Forums

 

[sygnus21]

Good grief is that bug list long. Wow

 

[Airbot]

Yeah. Lots of bugs...

So the 1.2 patch is looking pretty weak in fixing stuff so far, actually.


Noticed that annoying one, too.

* Skills sometimes drop for no apparent reason

And this one...

* Generally doing anything (killing NPC's, clearing dungeons, finding items, letting a summoned creature kill a quest-specific kill target etc. etc.) that are required for a quest, BEFORE you ever see/receive that quest, breaks the quest. Quests all need to re-check for triggers having already been achieved the moment you accept them.

 

[sygnus21]

In the mean time I'm reading this article - The Skyrim Team Has a Better Plan for Squashing Bugs this Time and this paragraph amused me....

Before launch, Howard said, Bethesda is testing Skyrim rigorously and more heavily using a system that runs automated versions of the game overnight, searching for bugs and helping the team squash them. "We're getting better at it," Howard said.

Though the game is nowhere as bad as Bethesda's last release - Fallout New Vegas, it's certainly not as clean as they'd hoped. At least they're trying though, I give them credit for that.

They are also adopting this new EA Sports-style "live update" system that will let Bethesda tweak the data in their game almost immediately. If a quest isn't triggering because players are doing some unforeseen combination of actions, that might be addressable by tweaking the data tables that dictate the flow of events in the game. If the game is proving to be unbalanced in an unexpected way, that can be fixed on the fly too. And these fixes—Howard prefers to call them "improvements"— will take effect fast. "We can change stats on a sword and it will be available to everyone in a few hours," he said.

Good article to read.