TES V: Skyrim

You can disable v-sync in skyrimprefs.ini, playing as archer with the mouse lag would be impossible and this cures it:

Code:

iPresentInterval=0

About the low sound volume: are you sure it isn't just meant to be low and there are actually high volume effects in between?

I like how it defaulted to Ultra on my PC.

 

Also the lack of Transparency MS support, according to the renderer, is curious

edit:
Looks like some ancient engine limitations:

 

Don't be silly; of course I know there is a setting in the driver but apparently is doesn't do anything for Skyrim.

 

I laughed at this.

 

It looks so Oblivion like. It makes me want to see if it'll still run on SM2 hardware.

 

Decided to see how far north I could go. I hit the border (and the dreaded invisible wall), but there's still quite a bit of glacial land up there. What's kinda neat is if you do explore that far north, the entirety of the northern clouded region on the map becomes unclouded.

 

Got NV SGSAA working. The key is to have the driver do the "enhance AA" mode and set it up to use SGSSAA in NV Inspector as shown.

It's only 1360x768 cuz this is my TV box. It seems to look as good as AMD's RGSSAA on my 6950. It's definitely better than the 2720x1536 oversampling I was using (and faster I think).

 

uGridsToLoad 5 - 47FPS
uGridsToLoad 7 - 42FPS
uGridsToLoad 9 - 39FPS
uGridsToLoad 11 - 31FPS
uGridsToLoad 11 Ridunkulous LOD - 18FPS

 

How do you get "ridunkulous LOD"?

 

just set everything related to lod etc multiply by 4x-10x.. doesnt help with grass and vegetation though, i am still seeing popups..

 

There are new drivers. 285.79 beta.

Anyway I seem to have encountered my first proper bugs. There are 2 quests I have, one misc. and one big. The misc. one pertains to an "unusual gem" which pointed to someone in Riften. Talked to the guy, must have said something wrong and now he won't talk to me.
The other regards stealing a horse in Riften, but the guy I got the quest from is nowhere to be found and I only have 1 waypoint but nothing happens if I go there except I kill some mercs. Hmpf.

 

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.

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

 

for unusual gem

Spoiler

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

 

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.

 

Spoiler

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.

 

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.