The Elder Scrolls Megathread XV: A Song of Ice and Draugr - Games

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;43014982]Even if they did, I'm pretty sure a wizard in rags would conquer 5+ soldiers in daedric armor. The wizard could just backpedal and spam large AoE frost spells[/QUOTE] One arrow would kill him.

hail your lizard overlords

How come pretty much everything that happens outside of the actual games is fucking amazing and badass, and everything in the games is lame as fuck. Oblivion crisis outside games, massive war. Inside game, "go fetch me some shit so I can open a porta- too late woops I'll just beat the boss for you."

[QUOTE=G3rman;43015093]One arrow would kill him.[/QUOTE] Have you ever tried to shoot an arrow while being constantly bombarded with AOE frost spells?

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;43017216]Have you ever tried to shoot an arrow while being constantly bombarded with AOE frost spells?[/QUOTE] yes

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;43017216]Have you ever tried to shoot an arrow while being constantly bombarded with AOE frost spells?[/QUOTE] Are we talking about the spell damage via skyrim (most recent canon)? Because if so I'm pretty sure the wizard would need to be backpedaling across the entire continent to do any damage and you could just rush up and slap them v:v:v

[QUOTE=TheStateTrooper;43017404]Yes.[/QUOTE] Then you haven't gotten that mods which makes ice spells make a bunch of ice shit all over you, which makes you pretty much completely unable to move.

[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;43017748]Then you haven't gotten that mods which makes ice spells make a bunch of ice shit all over you, which makes you pretty much completely unable to move.[/QUOTE] It's even better with the spreading fire and NPCs. I've never seen anything as stupid as them saying "i'll get you for that!" to a fucking fire...

So... my girfriend finally convinced me to pick up Skyrim on steam autumn sale. As expected (hi gamebryo, almost didn't see you under your new name), it looks like ass (compared to newer games, even with High-res texture pack) and works like ass (again, compared to newer games, you'd expect being able to run BF4 on almost all highest settings would allow me to play two years old game, but evidently no). Looked through OP, searched a bit on my own and haven't found anything comprehensible yet. Any helpful advices on what to turn on/off, what to install and what to check to make it [del]not suck[/del] not drive me nuts with lags, mouse lags, stuttering and generally shit FPS?

[QUOTE=Atlascore;43017927]Stuttering and lag in Skyrim?[/QUOTE] Oh jesus, am I the only one with these kinds of problems? It stutters and visibly slows down when turning around and the mouse movments are horribly delayed (and I should find how to turn off smoothing, I guess).

[QUOTE=gudman;43017840]So... my girfriend finally convinced me to pick up Skyrim on steam autumn sale. As expected (hi gamebryo, almost didn't see you under your new name), it looks like ass (compared to newer games, even with High-res texture pack) and works like ass (again, compared to newer games, you'd expect being able to run BF4 on almost all highest settings would allow me to play two years old game, but evidently no). Looked through OP, searched a bit on my own and haven't found anything comprehensible yet. Any helpful advices on what to turn on/off, what to install and what to check to make it [del]not suck[/del] not drive me nuts with lags, mouse lags, stuttering and generally shit FPS?[/QUOTE] What are you on? Game runs fine and looks fine, not amazing but you can't say it looks like "ass". If you really lag in Skyrim you did something really wrong. Post specs please.

[QUOTE=The golden;43017957]Are you running SLI/Crossfire? That can cause bad stuttering in some games.[/QUOTE] No I don't. [QUOTE=asXas;43017960]What are you on? Game runs fine and looks fine, not amazing but you can't say it looks like "ass". If you really lag in Skyrim you did something really wrong. Post specs please.[/QUOTE] It really does look bad compared to what kind of performance I get. CPU: i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti RAM: 8GB. I know my GPU isn't exactly new or even anything but "acceptable", it's above recommended requirements, obviously. And I didn't meddle with the game in any way, shape or form at all, I even lowered stuff in the settings (automatically detected as "Ultra"). It's actually the reason I brain farted and just assumed it's the game's fault, for which I feel like a dick now.

[QUOTE=gudman;43017990]No I don't. It really does look bad compared to what kind of performance I get. CPU: i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti RAM: 8GB. I know my GPU isn't exactly new or even anything but "acceptable", it's above recommended requirements, obviously. And I didn't meddle with the game in any way, shape or form at all, I even lowered stuff in the settings (automatically detected as "Ultra"). It's actually the reason I brain farted and just assumed it's the game's fault, for which I feel like a dick now.[/QUOTE] 1#. Never set the games settings to the default Ultra settings. It turns on uGridsLoad = 7, meaning that it loads a lot more cells at once into the game than uGridsLoad = 5, and it also ups the games shadow resolution, which (stupidly) relies on the CPU do shadow calculations. I have an Intel Core i5 2500K, 8 gigs of 665 MHz RAM, and an AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series card. I let the game set it to the optimized level, High. You should too. Once the game sets it to High, change the settings yourself. 2#.Please, if you are running SLi or Crossfire (I know you're not, but this is for anyone that is), TURN OFF ONE OF YOUR GPUs, it fixes a lot of graphical glitches. This is speaking out of experience ever since I have had the game from 2011. [editline]29th November 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Atlascore;43017998]Yes, Skyrim doesn't take much to run, it's probably one of Bethesda's more optimized and stable games, you gotta tell us your PC specs.[/QUOTE] Shadows are balls-to-the-wall un-optimized, because it uses the CPU to calculate them.

[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;43018172]1#. Never set the games settings to the default Ultra settings. It turns on uGridsLoad = 7, meaning that it loads a lot more cells at once into the game than uGridsLoad = 5, and it also ups the games shadow resolution, which (stupidly) relies on the CPU do shadow calculations. I have an Intel Core i5 2500K, 8 gigs of 665 MHz RAM, and an AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series card. I let the game set it to the optimized level, High. You should too. Once the game sets it to High, change the settings yourself. [/QUOTE] So that's what it was. I allowed it to be set on ultra and then lowered shadow resolution in "advanced" (because I've read already that they hammer the CPU's) menu. Gonna check it out in an hour, thanks in advance.

[QUOTE=The golden;43018245]I can. With confidence too. The colours are murky and washed out, the textures are ungodly terrible (with them also often stretched and distorted), the shadows are some of the worst I have ever seen in a modern game, and a lot of misc. items like the waterfall effects just look awful. Luckily the two biggest issues which are texture quality and shitty colours can be fixed with some HD texture mods and a good ENB and shader mod.[/QUOTE] While we're at it, can you possibly point me at some of the good mods like that? The garbage I had to dig through when finding good graphical mods for F:NV still burns in my brain.

I have a problem, and it's not Mouse acceleration, I've already tried turning it off in SkyrimPrefs.ini. When I have my hands out, the hands visibly stutter while moving around while everything else runs at a normal FPS.

[QUOTE=Elspin;43017549]Are we talking about the spell damage via skyrim (most recent canon)? Because if so I'm pretty sure the wizard would need to be backpedaling across the entire continent to do any damage and you could just rush up and slap them v:v:v[/QUOTE] House Redoran is home to some of the most powerful wizards in morrowind. They could easily use a bunch of frost spells to slow down and eventually kill an argonian charging at you with a dagger. DrasarSalman in vanilla frost spells slow you down.

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;43006922][url=http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/35564//?]Holy shit I found gold[/url][/QUOTE] Sound really cool, and the fact you have to go through long quests to get these spells probably make them not as op as they could be.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;43018318]DrasarSalman in vanilla frost spells slow you down.[/QUOTE] I know, but that doesn't affect bows I think. It gets way worse with [url=http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/43241//?]this mod[/url], because NPCs start literally making walls around you.

[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;43018375]I know, but that doesn't affect bows I think. It gets way worse with [url=http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/43241//?]this mod[/url], because NPCs start literally making walls around you.[/QUOTE] Try shooting an arrow while staggered and blinded by the ice storm spell

Due to that news of the Falskaar guy getting hired and the Game Grumps doing a stupid speedrun, I got interested in this again. I was planning to start up again during winter break, and hopefully get Dawnguard and Dragonborn on discount during the Steam winter sale. But then I noticed that there's a Steam sale [I]now[/I] so fuck it I caved Last time I played was late summer of last year. I have that Realistic Lighting with Customization mod, and I had it right where I wanted it, but I think getting Dawnguard broke it. And they removed the old versions of the mod and went to a noncustomizable version (as far as I can tell) because [I]fuck you[/I]. So, what do I do to get Skyrim back to looking like I had it? Do I find a Dawnguard patch for the RLwC, or do I start over with a different lighting mod? By the way, I have to agree with what people were saying earlier, the game kinda looks like ass. Everything is extremely dusty and pale, I'm not even going to get into how it looks like bathing hasn't been invented yet, and the lighting, ugh. Let me tell you something about the lighting. Several months back, I had an eye checkup. They put something in my eyes to make my pupils dilate for a while, so they gave me some cheap flimsy sunglasses to wear until my eyes went back to normal. Just out of curiosity, I looked around outside without the sunglasses, and everything was so bright that it hurt. I looked up towards the sky a bit and [I]oh my god I can't take this.[/I] And yet, [I]there was still less 'bloom' than Skyrim.[/I] That's the problem with some of the recent trend towards 'realism' in modern games. The only way you can find that kind of bloom in real life is if you purposefully make your eyes take in as much light as possible. Also, [B]the real world has colors, dammit[/B]

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;43018318]House Redoran is home to some of the most powerful wizards in morrowind. They could easily use a bunch of frost spells to slow down and eventually kill an argonian charging at you with a dagger.[/QUOTE] You're thinking of House Telvanni - House Redoran wasn't really into that whole magic thing, as it wasn't honourable combat of warriors.

I'm wanting to throw in texture mods to make everything look nice but I don't want to risk getting issues again like last time I threw everything I could onto it. Maybe I'll just get the Skyrim HD mod and something else and keep it at that. Whatever isn't too hard on a system.

For lighting mods, I'd strongly reccomend [URL="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17802/?"]Climates of Tamriel[/URL], it's customizable, makes the lighting much better and more interesting, adds awesome weather patterns and clouds. Optional soundscapes make the wilds feel more wild.

[t]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2x9ak2zZJ1ql4bxpo1_500.png[/t]

[QUOTE=27X;43020183][t]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2x9ak2zZJ1ql4bxpo1_500.png[/t][/QUOTE] Actually, it's more like this: [t]http://i.imgur.com/7qXXaZn.png[/t]

[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;43020648]Actually, it's more like this: [t]http://i.imgur.com/7qXXaZn.png[/t][/QUOTE] And you only experience one of those paths, the other ones are described in books.

[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;43018172]1#. Never set the games settings to the default Ultra settings. It turns on uGridsLoad = 7, meaning that it loads a lot more cells at once into the game than uGridsLoad = 5, and it also ups the games shadow resolution, which (stupidly) relies on the CPU do shadow calculations. I have an Intel Core i5 2500K, 8 gigs of 665 MHz RAM, and an AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series card. I let the game set it to the optimized level, High. You should too. Once the game sets it to High, change the settings yourself. 2#.Please, if you are running SLi or Crossfire (I know you're not, but this is for anyone that is), TURN OFF ONE OF YOUR GPUs, it fixes a lot of graphical glitches. This is speaking out of experience ever since I have had the game from 2011. [editline]29th November 2013[/editline] Shadows are balls-to-the-wall un-optimized, because it uses the CPU to calculate them.[/QUOTE] When I choose "Default" it sets itself to ultra high, are you saying I should have the setting on high, then raise everything except for "shadow detail" to max?

[QUOTE=Nystical;43021099]When I choose "Default" it sets itself to ultra high, are you saying I should have the setting on high, then raise everything except for "shadow detail" to max?[/QUOTE] From my experience, kinda. But it's personal preference from then. I usually set my games' graphics levels one below the automatically chosen graphics level to keep it from dipping below 60 fps.

[QUOTE=IrishBandit;43014320]Wow, I had no idea that the Argonians are [URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/17a79q/the_structure_and_strength_of_the_argonian_army/"]the strongest fucking military force in tamriel.[/URL] I mean, the Oblivion Gates opened in Black Marsh, and the daedra fucking had to close them because their shit got kicked in by the argonians.[/QUOTE] God that guy is such a weirdo. How the hell do you outfit an entire invasion force with looted weapons and armor that you have no ability to repair, adapt, or replace? And if the Hist can give all Argonians a psychic link to eachother that gives them perfect communication and awareness, why do they even need An-Xileel to unify and lead them? And then there's him just making shit up, like how they would [I]always attack at night[/I] and are [I]master scouts, infiltrators, and guerrilla fighters[/I] and are [I]expert survivalists that could easily wait out any seige [/I]or how the Hist can mutate any Argonian into essentially a super Saiyan at will. And despite the fact that the last Shadowscale dies during the events of the game, he still insists that the Shadowscales are still around because, uuh, well, I guess he just finds them too cool not to exist.