The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Official Trailer - Page 8

Originally Posted by WiseGuy2k7

Skyrim is a steamworks game so take a look on there.

Originally Posted by mboojigga

What does that mean in relation to having a retail version not bought through Steam? I have Steam and games throught it. Thanks for the reply.

I think I found somthing. I can add non steam games to the library.

Originally Posted by HeadRusch

Here's a dumb one..is this a known issue? If you alt-tab out of the game, do you need to Alt-Tab TWICE to get back into it? EG: You Alt-tab out of the game, to check an email or perhaps look at some nice pr0n, then you alt-tab back until you get the SKYRIM black screen and let go. You get a black screen with a border around it. So then you alt-tab again, go through the screens you have open until you get BACK to Skyrim again and THEN it will let you back into the game?

That "just me" or is that everyone....

And question 2: This whole running with AA turned off but turing it on in the console, for us Nvidia users can we turn on FXAA in the console, I've never tried. I'm running right now at 2xaa with FXAA turned on and I have no aliasing issues....although with 8xAF I am seeing blurring on the cobblestone streets. No, i'm not using any texture mods yet.

Thanks in advance for your warm loving replies.

Originally Posted by Hawkwing

-Lush grass and lush trees

I don't run FXAA, AF, or AA in the Skyrim setup menu. I force AA and AF in my ATI setup. To me it looks better. I have a 5870 card and at 1080P i am usually at the locked 60 fps, but areas that are dense trees and flora will dip down to around 33 FPS. Sometimes when running around, I will catch the scenery at a certain vista and a certain time of day, and it reminds me of a Thomas Kinkade painting.

Originally Posted by HeadRusch

This one looked great, but i could not believe the framerate hit that I took because of it. If you read up on the mod's forum on SkyrimNexus, people were posting like "How can you say there is no FPS impact!?". With the grass mod I lost about 2-4 fps, but with the TREES I lost anywhere from 10-20 frames in some cases, it was shocking.

And while the trees looked great, they completely blocked the view in some places when I was fighting enemies who could see me but I couldn't see them because of the forest trees, like dragons, etc...had to remove it.



Yeah it can be very impressive. With the texture packs installed you can use FXAA for almost no performance hit, and still get sharp looking textures....in fact playing the game without FXAA on but with the 8k texture packs installed (not stock, SKYRIM 2K) you almost WANT fxaa blurring things up a bit, things can look too sharp.

My only problem is that the texture packs seem to cause some funny pop-in problems. Example I'm walking towards a wall....and a few hundred feet out I see the detail-level of the wall change. On the standard packs the transition is more seamless, but on the re-done packs the wall actually changes...eg: big corner stones appear that are not modeled in the 'distance texture'......so I think thats a flaw you get when using 3rd party textures. I can live with it.

Originally Posted by Hawkwing

I haven't tried the Skyrim 2K textures yet. I read that they take away from the original art direction/style of the game. Is there any truth to that?

Originally Posted by HeadRusch

Well they are someone else's textures, so I can't argue that point but the default textures were so weak, adding in a texture pack really does change the game visually. Wood looks like wood, etc...you don't look at something and go "texture problems", which I think you do on the default game.

I've noticed a problem however that I am assuming is with the texture pack and not with the default game, where you walk up on something like a stone wall and you see it change its detail level from "distance texture" to "full texture" and it changes the rocks completely. Noticed it for the first time yesterday and now am kind of distracted by it.