Discuss Skyrim

[FredeGail]

Are you guys running Skyrim with Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering on or off? Taking it off seems to have removed the lag at random places. Even-though you have a high-end card. (I have GTX 560 ti).

Fred.

All on at 8x and 8x. I hate all the pixel shimmer you get with them off. But yeah those features, the AA especially are frame rate eaters to be sure.

All I heard about AA was bad things.
But it seems to take effect on my high-end card for some reason. I do not see any pixels at all.

Fred.

 

[sygnus21]

For some reason I seem to lag inside Whiterun, is it something you also do?

I get a little stutter in Whiterun but barely noticable. Where I do get the most stutter is the area leading to the mage's college, but once inside the stutter goes away. I commented on that here - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim.html#post1668331

As for AA settings I have both AA and AF on as posted here - http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198691-discuss-skyrim-5.html#post1671627. The game's auto detect system chose ultra high and I have no issues at those settings other than the occaisonal stuttering, which is far better (less annoying) than what I had in Oblivion with all the texture mods, and Fallout New Vegas, without mods.

It seems the bugs come and go, previously i played for an hour, and got two CTD's, now i played for 3-4hours and everything was perfect. no problems at all...

The CTD's are completely random and the patch hasn't done a darn thing to fix them.

 

[Alsisgevat]

The CTD's are completely random and the patch hasn't done a darn thing to fix them.

Yeah, I thought at first the patch was good for me, but the purple armor stuff is getting worse! How do you bring out a patch that not only does it NOT fix anything, but it actually creates more problems?

As for lag, I have all on ultra,and full AA and AF and nothing lags, I get 2 fps drop near mage college, but thats from 60 to about 58 sometimes with a dragon battle at the College I will get 57/56fps, but never any lags.

 

[fseal]

The CTD's are completely random and the patch hasn't done a darn thing to fix them.

Yeah, I thought at first the patch was good for me, but the purple armor stuff is getting worse! How do you bring out a patch that not only does it NOT fix anything, but it actually creates more problems?

As for lag, I have all on ultra,and full AA and AF and nothing lags, I get 2 fps drop near mage college, but thats from 60 to about 58 sometimes with a dragon battle at the College I will get 57/56fps, but never any lags.

Is there an in game/console way of showing FPS? Or are you using FRAPS or ??? to get that info?

 

[sygnus21]

Most people just use FRAPS for this info as I'm not aware of any in-game console to gleen this info from.

 

[Airbot]

Looky there -

Continued Game Updates – This week we released update 1.2 across all platforms, and we’ll be releasing an incremental update next week. We anticipate it will be up on PC first, and then hit PS3 and Xbox 360 later in the week. Among other things, the update will fix issues like magic resistance not calculating properly and the rare, amazing backwards flying dragon. Once the update is released, we’ll share the full release notes.

Skyrim — what we’re working on | Bethesda Blog

 

[vierasniper]

the only i place i see a drop in fps is the mages collage. other than that its all goood. i have my settings at 8 & 8, for aa and af

 

[EvilOzzmess]

The CTD's are completely random and the patch hasn't done a darn thing to fix them.

I experience CTD's on games from as far out as five years ago (Sims 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3 etc.) to the present releases. The only ones I never, ever experience those with are the truly ancient ones like Warcraft II.BNE and similar. I'm lead to believe all newer "port" games are doomed to run into these no matter what. If they would instead develop games FOR PC FIRST (which should be how it's done since they program the damned things on PC's) there would not be any problems and they could port the PC versions onto the bloody consoles seeing as they're "so perfect"...

And heck, they should start offering to let gammers test everything BEFORE it launches to the full retail release and I'd wager 99% of issues would be solved lickety split. In fact, isn't that what almost every software developer does (i.e. Microsoft)??? The missing link! :sarc:

 

[sygnus21]

Looky there -

Continued Game Updates – This week we released update 1.2 across all platforms, and we’ll be releasing an incremental update next week. We anticipate it will be up on PC first, and then hit PS3 and Xbox 360 later in the week. Among other things, the update will fix issues like magic resistance not calculating properly and the rare, amazing backwards flying dragon. Once the update is released, we’ll share the full release notes.

Skyrim — what we’re working on | Bethesda Blog

My only complaint would be that they get the fix out before the weekend, but oh well, at least (according to them) it will be released next week. Let's just hope that patch doesn't break other stuff.

As to the rest of the article, I like what I'm reading and I absolutely love this idea....

Steam Workshop – We’re excited to share news that we’ve been working closely with Valve to integrate Steam Workshop into the Creation Kit. Using the Workshop, you’ll have free user content with the push of a button. The Creation Kit will bundle your mod and upload it to the Workshop, where everyone can browse, rate, and flag mods for download. You’ll be able to do this from any web device, including your smartphone. Like a live Netflix queue, when you fire up Skyrim, mods you flagged will be automatically downloaded and installed. Everyone here is really excited about the opportunities and possibilities this opens up for our entire community.

I just hope creativity doesn't get stiffled due to "rules and regulations"

 

[EvilOzzmess]

Wait, wait, wait! Steam workshop? As in... the creation kit is going to have to be run with Steam too?! If that's so, I will: :banghead:

Then again, maybe the fantastic Razor 1911 team will break Steam away from it like they have for Skyrim itself. I ♥ them! Saving one system from Steam at a time...



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Whoops, I just got myself banned. Guess I never took the time to learn the rules of this site.

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/8-forum-rules-info-please-read.html#post15

 

[boohbah]

Whoops, I just got myself banned. Guess I never took the time to learn the rules of this site.

game related facepalm,

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[panais]

Wait, wait, wait! Steam workshop? As in... the creation kit is going to have to be run with Steam too?! If that's so, I will: :banghead:

Then again, maybe the fantastic Razor 1911 team will break Steam away from it like they have for Skyrim itself. I ♥ them! Saving one system from Steam at a time...



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Whoops, I just got myself banned. Guess I never took the time to learn the rules of this site.

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/8-forum-rules-info-please-read.html#post15

:roflmao:

 

[FredeGail]

Wait. What?

 

[fseal]

Last night steam was flaking out on me. I swear if steam ever prevents me from playing a game I paid for for even 5 minutes... I'm going to go level 80 dragonborn on their asses!!

Two disturbing things. 1) It said I was trying to log into from a different computer and had to reverify my computer which is not true. and 2) Once verified I could still not play Skyrim because "That game is not currently available, try again later". WTH???

I love the positive aspects of steam, but this is just truly not acceptable

 

[Alsisgevat]

I love skyrim allot, and its easy to critisize on others hard work, and i dont ussually stop plying a game just cause it has a few bugs, but i get CTD's every 5minutes, its getting out of hand, so gonna stop playing skyrim just for this week, till the new patch comes out, i cant even finish a quist then it exists the game

 

[sygnus21]

@ fseal, I played for a few hours last night and hadn't noticed any steam issues. I know Steam had a stickey up notifiying everyone that there was an attempted security breech a few weeks back, in fact I got an e-mail from them notifying me that I sould change my password. Perhaps you should do the same just in case.

Steam Users' Forums - Announcements in Forum : Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls V

@ Alsisgevat - have you tried deleting/moving all but your last 10 or so save files?

To eveyone else - he's gone, let's move on.

Thanks.

 

[fseal]

Yeah I changed my password right when the email came out... Though... couldn't hurt to change it again now.

I went to the forums and there was no sign of a massive outtage or anything. Still, very irritating that my minute by minute use of the game is dependant entirely on net access to a third party :/

 

[sygnus21]

You can try playing offline - Open Steam, Click Steam, and choose Go Offline, and see if that helps with your issue.

 

[Alsisgevat]

@ Alsisgevat - have you tried deleting/moving all but your last 10 or so save files

Hey, thanx 4 the advice, but i tried that,it did not help

 

[fseal]

You can try playing offline - Open Steam, Click Steam, and choose Go Offline, and see if that helps with your issue.

I was pretty sure that that was not an option for Skyrim. Someone said they did that and the game would not run till they reconnected live. But worth a try I suppose, would be good to know.