[Man from Atlantis]

for unusual gem you need to talk with vex at thieves guild, and she refuses to buy them unless you find all collection(find 24 gem)
i spent 80hr for now and got only 10

[Bludd]

Originally Posted by Malo

I believe the Unusual Gem quest requires the Thieves Guild quest first. When I talked to him it was just just after I'd spoken to Brynjolf and so he told me I need to get in good with Brynjolf first before he'll talk to me. I'm almost finished the mage quest atm so I haven't been back yet to continue the Thieves Guild quest.

Weird, a gem that I didn't steal (it was take in white, not steal in red) and I have to do the thieves guild quest? Meh!

[Malo]

Originally Posted by Bludd

Weird, a gem that I didn't steal (it was take in white, not steal in red) and I have to do the thieves guild quest? Meh!

Well from the info from Man from Atlantis, it's due to getting access to the fence. And seems that part I mentioned is only to join the guild, not actually the full questline.

[John Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Malo

I don't think I've enjoyed or been awed by a game as much as I am with Skyrim in a long time.

Grond, my orc berserker, just helped the Stormcloaks sack Whiterun last night. I felt bad, being a thane and owning a home there, even being the Companions' harbinger, but the Jarl wouldn't join the cause of liberating Skyrim so it had to be done <g>. Gonna have to take the side of the Imperials with my 3rd toon just to see how that plays out.

[swaaye]

Originally Posted by N_B

You might try setting LOD bias to -1.5 to offset some of the blur you get.

I've also set iBlurDeferredShadowMask in the ini to 8 which gives a lot softer shadows (some people might see it as a thick shadow blur but I like it, it tends to hide the cascades ).

The negative lod level depends on SSAA mode. I usually run -0.5 with 4x. Some games have major problems when you screw with LOD though. I will try it out but I actually thought it looked fine without tweaking that. NV SGSSAA can really blur some games but this looked good.

[Cyan]

Hey there fellow PC gamers. 100% console gamer here, but I think it would be a good idea to share some screenshots and tweaks with you, especially taking into account it's a recurrent matter here in this thread.

For tweaks, there are two excellent guides, as far as I know, where they explain what every parameter changes.

I don't have a good enough PC to run Skyrim even at low settings, but I've been reading these web pages just out of curiosity, and this one is my favourite. Lots of tweaking excellently explained:

http://truepcgaming.com/2011/11/15/how-to-play-skyrim/

http://i.imgur.com/QyTlu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7SpYB.jpg

This one is very good too, and it includes a sample config file in text format:

http://segmentnext.com/2011/11/11/el...d-performance/

In the first link they linked to a web where you can download two sample config files, and try the one you prefer or better suits your PC.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yywfo3l9rdfhfw5

It's a 2 Kb download -this reminds me of the dial up days, sigh- created by the guys at http://deadendthrills.com/

With their settings they created these screenshots, whick made me authentically feel how beautiful thet can look -I find this game stunning, artistically wise-:











http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6223/...3e544fb2_b.jpg







And here they have a nice gallery with many other screens they took:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncanj...774012/detail/

[Davros]

Originally Posted by Cyan

Hey there fellow PC gamers. 100% console gamer here,

You know that statement is contradictory

[Davros]

Originally Posted by Cyan

Hey there fellow PC gamers. 100% console gamer here,

You know that statement is contradictory

Remember :


ps: night sky mod
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/ind...?topic=79063.0

[homerdog]

I used a mod that actually puts a high resolution real night sky (as in the one you see when you look up at night) in the game. Fortunately the Skyrim constellations are in a different file so they don't go away, you just get a really detailed (and recognizable) night sky.

[swaaye]

It really is mind blowing how much more interesting the locations are in this game than Oblivion.

[homerdog]

I edited my previous post but I think this is worthy of a post of its own.

I'm going to tell you guys how to get rich, and it's totally legit.

1. Learn the Transmute spell.
   
2. Find an iron ore mine.
   
3. Mine the shit out of it. Take the iron ore + all the gems you acquired to your house.
   
4. Transmute the iron ore into silver ore, then transmute the silver ore into gold ore. Even non-magic characters like myself can do it, you just have to sleep for an hour after every transmutation to regain magica.
   
5. Take the gold ore to a smelter and make gold ingots.
   
6. Take the gold ingots to the forge and make gold jewelry. Diamond rings are worth 900 a pop btw.

The hardest part now is to find merchants who have enough money to buy all this stuff. But as far as problems go, that is a good one. Your smithing skill will also go up a level for every couple of pieces of jewelry you make. For Skyrim!

[pcchen]

Originally Posted by homerdog

I edited my previous post but I think this is worthy of a post of its own.

I'm going to tell you guys how to get rich, and it's totally legit.

1. Learn the Transmute spell.
   
2. Find an iron ore mine.
   
3. Mine the shit out of it. Take the iron ore + all the gems you acquired to your house.
   
4. Transmute the iron ore into silver ore, then transmute the silver ore into gold ore. Even non-magic characters like myself can do it, you just have to sleep for an hour after every transmutation to regain magica.
   
5. Take the gold ore to a smelter and make gold ingots.
   
6. Take the gold ingots to the forge and make gold jewelry. Diamond rings are worth 900 a pop btw.

The hardest part now is to find merchants who have enough money to buy all this stuff. But as far as problems go, that is a good one. Your smithing skill will also go up a level for every couple of pieces of jewelry you make. For Skyrim!

If you have a lot of petty or less common soul gems (they are pretty common) you can enchant these jewelries for even better profits. Fortify Sneak is a good candidate.

[homerdog]

Good suggestion. It would also be a good way to improve your enchant skill, which seems to be pretty hard to do.

[Sxotty]

Originally Posted by homerdog

I edited my previous post but I think this is worthy of a post of its own.

I'm going to tell you guys how to get rich, and it's totally legit.

1. Learn the Transmute spell.
   
2. Find an iron ore mine.
   
3. Mine the shit out of it. Take the iron ore + all the gems you acquired to your house.
   
4. Transmute the iron ore into silver ore, then transmute the silver ore into gold ore. Even non-magic characters like myself can do it, you just have to sleep for an hour after every transmutation to regain magica.
   
5. Take the gold ore to a smelter and make gold ingots.
   
6. Take the gold ingots to the forge and make gold jewelry. Diamond rings are worth 900 a pop btw.

The hardest part now is to find merchants who have enough money to buy all this stuff. But as far as problems go, that is a good one. Your smithing skill will also go up a level for every couple of pieces of jewelry you make. For Skyrim!

You have to find diamonds though as well. I have a bunch of gold ingots and all I can make is a necklace worth 120. Only 20 more than the ingot.

[Bludd]

Originally Posted by Sxotty

You have to find diamonds though as well. I have a bunch of gold ingots and all I can make is a necklace worth 120. Only 20 more than the ingot.

But you gain smithing skill by doing it.

I am not sure jewellery should be in the same bunch as smithing, neither should hide armour but this isn't an MMO.

[homerdog]

Originally Posted by Sxotty

You have to find diamonds though as well. I have a bunch of gold ingots and all I can make is a necklace worth 120. Only 20 more than the ingot.

Precious gems are found when you mine ore veins. Basically every time you mine an ore vein, you find one piece of ore, then a randomly selected gem, then another piece of ore. So in theory you should be able to make a bunch of really expensive jewelry off of a single iron ore mine. And I can tell you I have made a crapload of insanely valuable jewelry from this method.



Lol okay so that necklace is stolen, but I made all of the other jewelry you see there (except one of the silver necklaces and the silver ring) including the diamond ring and the 12 silver amethyst rings. Bling Bling.

[Cyan]

Originally Posted by Davros

You know that statement is contradictory

Remember :


ps: night sky mod
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/ind...?topic=79063.0

LMAO xD That was very, very amusing!!!

But it isn't right. I am a divine and superior being, I am a console gamer. Aside from that, actually, the truth is that I had been following this thread and I noticed people were talking about tweaks -Albuquerque's posts were very interesting-, and stuff, and I wanted to share.

I feel slightly envious -because you can use things like FXAA Injection (although AA on the 360 looks great) and sun-rays, etc etc, and adapt the game to your PC, which seems fun to me. However, at the same time I feel relieved I don't have to tweak anything as a divine console gamer.

[homerdog]

Originally Posted by Cyan

LMAO xD That was very, very amusing!!!

But it isn't right. I am a divine and superior being, I am a console gamer. Aside from that, actually, the truth is that I had been following this thread and I noticed people were talking about tweaks -Albuquerque's posts were very interesting-, and stuff, and I wanted to share.

I feel slightly envious -because you can use things like FXAA Injection (although AA on the 360 looks great) and sun-rays, etc etc, and adapt the game to your PC, which seems fun to me. However, at the same time I feel relieved I don't have to tweak anything as a divine console gamer.

But remember (and this seems to be a common misconception about PC gaming in general), you don't have to tweak anything on PC. You can run with stock High or Ultra settings and still get a much better experience than you do on consoles. And it doesn't take a very powerful PC to run High setting. My PC was midrange back in 2008 and I can play on High with close to 60FPS constantly.

If you do decide to add some tweaks the game suddenly starts to look like a proper 2011 PC game. My enhanced starfield mod turns the night sky into a beautiful work of art and requires no extra performance. NVIDIA SSAO is a tremendous improvement IMO. Still haven't found a proper fix for the fugly shadows though

[Sxotty]

Originally Posted by homerdog

Precious gems are found when you mine ore veins. Basically every time you mine an ore vein, you find one piece of ore, then a randomly selected gem, then another piece of ore. So in theory you should be able to make a bunch of really expensive jewelry off of a single iron ore mine. And I can tell you I have made a crapload of insanely valuable jewelry from this method.

Hmm I was only getting like amethyst and stuff that did not go in the necklaces I could make. Maybe I am too low level or something.

[homerdog]

I was finding mostly lower level stuff also, but I did come across a few Flawless Garnets and other Flawless gems that I can't remember. I was ~level 16, and I dunno if that has anything to do with it (I hope not...).

[Davros]

And you cant play skyrim like this on a console can you
(because the gaming gods pour scorn upon you your divinity and your lowly 1280x720 resolution and they bestow a max res of 7680 x 3200 upon the enlightened pc gamers because they are righteous)


ps:

Bethesda has acknowledged an issue with the Xbox 360 version of its The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim title, warning customers not to install the game on the hard drive of the console, as an issue with the streaming systems used by the RPG causes textures to be loaded with a lower than normal resolution.

[swaaye]

Skyrim works on the X1950XTX. A few visual problems though. It looks like there's something missing with the lighting and some shadows are blocky.

1920x1200, Ultra high (medium shadows), 2x AA, 16x AF. Probably 10fps.

[N_B]

Originally Posted by Davros

And you cant play skyrim like this on a console can you
(because the gaming gods pour scorn upon you your divinity and your lowly 1280x720 resolution and they bestow a max res of 7680 x 3200 upon the enlightened pc gamers because they are righteous)


ps:

Bethesda has acknowledged an issue with the Xbox 360 version of its The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim title, warning customers not to install the game on the hard drive of the console, as an issue with the streaming systems used by the RPG causes textures to be loaded with a lower than normal resolution.

Why are you playing with no AF

[homerdog]

For all the beautiful scenes in this game, for some reason this one just struck me.



You can see Solitude in the background. Simply breathtaking.

Damn Solitude is an incredible city. Whoever designed it deserves a serious bonus.

[Davros]

Originally Posted by N_B

Why are you playing with no AF

Selected ultra detail assumed af would automatically be on, thanks for the heads up