Discuss Skyrim

[Alsisgevat]

What are you guyses kill rate? Mine is:
people: 530
Animals: 358
Creatures: 193
Undead : 356
Deadra: 23
Automations : 62
Bunnies: 1
Dragon souls: 23

 

[Richardc269]

hes 14 and angry. that's my guess anyway

Add another 14 to that.

And I was bored. *shrugs*

 

[sygnus21]

Midget shenanigans

LOL - too funny

 

[fseal]

Well after about 40 hours of playing I got stuck on the mages college quests. There was a puzzle involving light beams I couldnt solve because there were no light beams!

After seeing pictures of where there should have been light beams on line I decided that my previously perfectly functional/never crashing/never update your video drivers unless there is a problem drivers needed updating.

Well, the entire world looks COMPLETELY different! (10x better). I had NO idea how much was graphically mising in the game with my year old drivers (about 275.something). All the smoke/steam/fire/cloud effects were missing, including the fog under water which made the water look really bad (Complained about that earlier).

It looks so awesome now I feel really bummed about missing it for the start of the game

Got 80 hours into it now and maybe 40% done though so I'm enjoying how amazing it was supposed to look all along now anyway

 

[fseal]

Midget shenanigans

WHat's funny is, I was in a fight with some guards out in the brush somewhere and ONE of them was a midget. Bad scaling factor or something.

 

[sygnus21]

Well after about 40 hours of playing I got stuck on the mages college quests. There was a puzzle involving light beams I couldnt solve because there were no light beams!

After seeing pictures of where there should have been light beams on line I decided that my previously perfectly functional/never crashing/never update your video drivers unless there is a problem drivers needed updating.

Well, the entire world looks COMPLETELY different! (10x better). I had NO idea how much was graphically mising in the game with my year old drivers (about 275.something). All the smoke/steam/fire/cloud effects were missing, including the fog under water which made the water look really bad (Complained about that earlier).

It looks so awesome now I feel really bummed about missing it for the start of the game

So..... I guess we can now remove you from the game's graphics sucks crowd now?

 

[fseal]

So..... I guess you were one of those saying the game's graphics sucked?

No I was saying it was awsome before, except the water was too clear...

 

[sygnus21]

So..... I guess you were one of those saying the game's graphics sucked?

No I was saying it was awsome before, except the water was too clear...

Edited my post. But glad to hear the game looks much better now that you've updated your video card's drivers

 

[mickey megabyte]

Midget shenanigans

here's a few more screenies.

this one, i call rocketman (or rather rocketcat)



...and this is what happens when the fuel runs out:



here's a moodier piece, taken of me with my faithful companion watching my back,



and finally, this one reminded me of borderlands:

 

[Alsisgevat]

I call that first one " Don't mess with a grumpy giant" lol, I did your rocket man a few times haha

 

[Alsisgevat]

New Nvidia beta driver for skyrim...

Graphics Driver - GeForce 290.36 Driver - GeForce

 

[Airbot]

New drivers installed.


Here is the changelog for the 1.2 patch. Supposed to come out Wednesday for PC.

Don't really see much any mention for performance increases with PC other than bug fixes. Just PS3. Hmm...

(all platforms unless specified)

Skyrim 1.2 update | Bethesda Blog

 

[fseal]

New drivers installed.


Here is the changelog for the 1.2 patch. Supposed to come out Wednesday for PC.

Don't really see much any mention for performance increases with PC other than bug fixes. Just PS3. Hmm...

(all platforms unless specified)

Skyrim 1.2 update | Bethesda Blog

"Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead"

You know, quite a few of the bugs end up being pretty hilarious...

 

[Alsisgevat]

New drivers installed.


Here is the changelog for the 1.2 patch. Supposed to come out Wednesday for PC.

Don't really see much any mention for performance increases with PC other than bug fixes. Just PS3. Hmm...

(all platforms unless specified)

Skyrim 1.2 update | Bethesda Blog

F I N A L L Y ! ! ! ! ! Hey Airbot, are you refering to the Nvidia drivers when you said drivers installed? If so, does it make a difference ingame?

 

[Alsisgevat]

"Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead"

You know, quite a few of the bugs end up being pretty hilarious...

lol, Yeah and this was on one of the comments

" How do I get rid of my wife?

(Think this is a bug, or maybe deliberate, due to her Celeb status in Riften) But Mjoll the Lioness can’t be killed, and therefore I cant “divorce” her. Shes way to butch for me." hahaha

 

[Airbot]

New drivers installed.


Here is the changelog for the 1.2 patch. Supposed to come out Wednesday for PC.

Don't really see much any mention for performance increases with PC other than bug fixes. Just PS3. Hmm...

(all platforms unless specified)

Skyrim 1.2 update | Bethesda Blog

F I N A L L Y ! ! ! ! ! Hey Airbot, are you refering to the Nvidia drivers when you said drivers installed? If so, does it make a difference ingame?

Yeah, that's what I meant. Not sure yet, haven't played through the game with the new ones yet.

But here is before and after with the introduced "Ambient Occlusion" in these drivers.



Ultra high settings

Without.......................................................With "Quality" Ambient Occlusion

 

[Alsisgevat]

Yeah, that's what I meant. Not sure yet, haven't played through the game with the new ones yet.

But here is before and after with the introduced "Ambient Occlusion" in these drivers.



Ultra high settings

Without.......................................................With "Quality" Ambient Occlusion

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Oh, cool, thanx for the screen shots... but i cant see any difference..maybe the second pic looks softer...... anyway glad to see a fellow warior, and you have the same armor as me, was thinking for a while this was just a mage forum lol

 

[fseal]

I guess it's making the armor a tad more nicely highlighted/shaodowed with it on. I can;t see nay differences in the landscape though.

Supposed to be a better illumination model, maybe more pronounced indoors or at night with other lighting sources around?

 

[sygnus21]

Yeah same here - can't really see any difference.

BTW I would recommend everyone backup their saves/game folder in C:\Users\UserName\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves before Wednesday's patch - You never know

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

Thanks.

 

[fseal]

This page has some nice examples with a slider so you can check out the effect. It adds mainly better shadowing. Looks especially nice on the underside of tree branches which should be darker that the upper side.

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