Discuss Skyrim

[BugMeister]

me too..
I believe it's called getting value for money..

 

[panais]

Finishing Skyrim main quests in 2 hours :huh:

Well,he banned for some reason,maybe he was too fast for the forum.

 

[FredeGail]

Hey guys.

I've recently been building a new computer, and installed Skyrim on it. After getting out of the cave I notice a slight stutter. I can coordinate the stutters with HDD activity.

Should I be worried?
Game probably needs to be loaded completely.

 

[fseal]

Likely, there are frequently a ton of textures to be loaded for new cells.

I had mine installed on an SSD and noticed the slight stuttering even then but only when like entering some large cities for like 2-4 seconds after entering.

 

[FredeGail]

I sorta fixed it. I forgot to patch! Apparently, one of the patches removed it. Now, the only thing left I have is some hanging. The game is hanging for like one second while the Harddisk is bursting with activity! First run is always worse of course.
This will happen when I discovery new areas.

 

[sjc1138]

A friend of mine has had Skyrim since December, and already has levelled his character up to Lvl. 84 while I'm only Lvl. 15!

 

[JaidynM]

A friend of mine has had Skyrim since December, and already has levelled his character up to Lvl. 84 while I'm only Lvl. 15!

I know, right? I have no idea how people level up so quickly.

 

[Wishmaster]

I sorta fixed it. I forgot to patch! Apparently, one of the patches removed it. Now, the only thing left I have is some hanging. The game is hanging for like one second while the Harddisk is bursting with activity! First run is always worse of course.
This will happen when I discovery new areas.

Defrag.
It will help with some of the stutter.


But, its a Bethseda game. So you will never completely get rid of it. The engine itself has a bit if stutter in it.
I too notice a little bit from time to time and my game sits on a SSD.

But what you are describing sounds more like the system waiting on the HD to fetch DATA (aka hitching).
Try tunning a good defrag pass and see if it helps some.

Less fragments the HD needs to seek to should help a bit.

 

[sygnus21]

1.4 Patch coming soon

1.4 Patch coming soon. Details: News on the Creation Kit and Game Updates | Bethesda Blog

Discuss: 1.4 patch details! - Steam Users' Forums

 

[fseal]

Looks nice, though I don;t think it'll fix the one real bug the game has and that's a ticking time bomb in the save file that kills your ability to play past a certain number of hours or areas explored or in world time or something. I'm really looking forward to future mods but I'll have to do it with a noob character as my moderately capable main can't play the game for any period of time any more due to the save game bug.

First mod I want to see?

Total horse makeover. (Some of these are available now but...)

1) More stamina, come on, horses can gallop further than that.
2) Ability to tell to STAY or stay by default unless you tell them to attack.
3) Ability to talk/interact with NPCs from horseback.
4) Ranged attacks (Bow, magic etc) from horseback.
5) Ability to have a follower jump on the back of your horse and go with you somewhere.

What else? I spend at least 50% of the game on horseback, the horse really should be better integrated into the game in a realistic manner. In Red Dead Redemption you could do a lot of that and that's an older game now.

 

[sygnus21]

Looks nice, though I don;t think it'll fix the one real bug the game has and that's a ticking time bomb in the save file that kills your ability to play past a certain number of hours or areas explored or in world time or something. I'm really looking forward to future mods but I'll have to do it with a noob character as my moderately capable main can't play the game for any period of time any more due to the save game bug.

Well I'd rather wait and see before I pass final judgement there. BTW I haven't experienced that issue yet. I'm at level 55, have 309 hours and my largest save file is 14.4 meg though I only have 280 save files thus far. Though I do do manual saves, thus the 280 files, I mainly do the quick save thing (F5) thus so little files.

But yeah the large save file is an issue...

- CTD Save File Size - Bethesda Softworks Forums
- Save Game Size CTD confirmed - Steam Users' Forums

Anyway maybe this is meant to address the issue

Fixed rare crash with loading saved games

 

[sjc1138]

A friend of mine has had Skyrim since December, and already has levelled his character up to Lvl. 84 while I'm only Lvl. 15!

I know, right? I have no idea how people level up so quickly.

I finally convinced him to tell me, he makes as many Iron Daggers as he can afford, which levels up his smithing skill, causing him to level up. When they have, he sells the daggers for a higher price and repeats

 

[fseal]

Looks nice, though I don;t think it'll fix the one real bug the game has and that's a ticking time bomb in the save file that kills your ability to play past a certain number of hours or areas explored or in world time or something. I'm really looking forward to future mods but I'll have to do it with a noob character as my moderately capable main can't play the game for any period of time any more due to the save game bug.

Well I'd rather wait and see before I pass final judgement there. BTW I haven't experienced that issue yet. I'm at level 55, have 309 hours and my largest save file is 14.4 meg though I only have 280 save files thus far. Though I do do manual saves, thus the 280 files, I mainly do the quick save thing (F5) thus so little files.

But yeah the large save file is an issue...

- CTD Save File Size - Bethesda Softworks Forums
- Save Game Size CTD confirmed - Steam Users' Forums

Anyway maybe this is meant to address the issue

Fixed rare crash with loading saved games

Out of curiosity, how many "Places discovered" do you have in the stats? I was at 315 I think out of 341 I think is the max... I'm betting that each place you discover (and ransack) adds a sizable chunk to the file size.

 

[panais]

A complete Map of Skyrim.

 

[sygnus21]

Out of curiosity, how many "Places discovered" do you have in the stats? I was at 315 I think out of 341 I think is the max... I'm betting that each place you discover (and ransack) adds a sizable chunk to the file size.

Well I'm just at 241 so it looks like I have a few places to find yet.

Anyway I'm sparingly messing with the game now as I got Witcher 2 a couple of weeks back and haven't messed with it yet, so I'm about to give that a try.

Later.

 

[sjc1138]

Just completed first few quests of the game, level 2!

 

[Wishmaster]

Just got my smithing to 100 and made my 1st set of Dragon Scale Armor

Not sure if I should make a second set for Aela though (shes who I take everywhere)

 

[sjc1138]

Level 2 1/2 now, on my way to kill a bandit chief somewhere in a keep near Whiterun. Keep running into bandits on the way. Luckily, I stole the axe from the barracks, which has 23 attack! Anyone else do that? Loving Skyrim so far!

 

[mickey megabyte]

got some new armour

not quite sure how effective lydia's will be :huh:

 

[JaidynM]

Just got my smithing to 100 and made my 1st set of Dragon Scale Armor

Not sure if I should make a second set for Aela though (shes who I take everywhere)

Nice. I got my Smithing level to around 95 and stopped there. The Dragon armor for me anyway is worthless. So I just made two sets of Daedric armor for me and Mjoll and I was set.

got some new armour

not quite sure how effective lydia's will be :huh:

LOL, nice. What's Lydia wearing?