Yes, but my point is that it's still quite a pretty game.
TES V: Skyrim
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Yes, but my point is that it's still quite a pretty game.
The usual questions:
I have a
Intel Q9450 2.6Ghx Quad core\
Corsair 4Gb DDR2 RAM
ATI 4850, 512MB.
Win 7 Ultimate
Should I go for the PC version or go for the PS3 to ensure an smoother no hiccups performance.Lets just suppose for a second that mods don't matter. I don't want to buy the game and find out I can't get a smooth enough performance to enjoy it. Since my monitor is native 1920X1080, if I run anything at resolutions lower than that, I get a lot of blur, which I want to avoid at all costs.
Wish they release a benchmarking tools, but they never have!
It' a no brainer that the PC version will run much better than the PS3 version on that setup unless the PC port is an complete and epic failure.
Your packing around 5x the power of PS3, even at 1080p you should have no problem at all setting the details to console level and achieving a smoother framerate. Although I doubt console level details will equal maximum. If you want that then you're probably gonna have to drop your resolution. But whichever way you look at it you're winning if you go with the PC version unless you just can't stand not turning everything up to maximum.
Plus it'll be cheaper!
Whilst it will probably drop in price faster than the console version, the retail price for Skyrim is $59 on all platforms, including PC.
I don't know about Fallout but certainly Oblivion on Stock had a few improvements over the console versions in terms of draw distance and density of foliage. And that was way back in 2006! I'd certainly hope for more than that by now but as you say, I don't expect huge differences. I'll leave that to the modders
LOL, good luck (to myself probably - SkyGE):
Sound like pc gamers in the us get a raw deal, no wonder pc gaming is less popular over there. In the uk the pc launch price is £28 and the console launch price is £39.
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BF3 is a console game too!
Yoy can not compare run&gun FPS with RPGs!
In fantasy RPGs there is always a LOT of NPCs and monsters on map doing something, fighting, etc. They are much more interactive. That's very demanding.
Some of them, like The Witcher 2, have day/night and good/bad weather cycle. Also very demanding!
Well, some open shooters are probably just as complex as these Bethesda games. But I think that most shooters have developers that are more technically oriented than RPG developers. Bethesda uses all middleware AFAIK and it probably isn't ideally tailored to their games (although I think it gets better with each evolution).
yah, but the PC renderer is built only for DX10/11. It does not run at all on WindowsXP, and looks and runs better for it.
TW2 is both more demanding and worse looking than BF3, at least on my PC. And I don't think any of the maps in TW2 are bigger than say Caspian Border.
I have never seen that complex shooter. Exception is Stalker, but he is not typical FPS.
Bethesda is bad example.
Please!? When you put everything on low, which renderer game use!
I have already told you about TW2.
It uses the DX10-level path in the DX11 API. It won't use anything like Geometry Shaders obviously but it will use some new mechanisms to improve performance. Please Google before claiming something is wrong
Also if you want an open world FPS with lots of NPCs, what about Just Cause 2?
But console games aren't limited to DX9! One of them doesn't even support it! Don't confuse APIs with hardware.
Sacrilege! How can you never have played Elder Scrolls before!? Are you some kinda redneck emo console kiddie come over to flex some mod muscle in the Sacred PC Forums and then troll us with your "never played ES games"??
Silly stuff aside, they're always very big open world games with a lot of questing and great mod community. You can easily spend hundreds of hours gaming in them.
Silly stuff aside, they're always very big open world games with a lot of questing and great mod community. You can easily spend hundreds of hours gaming in them.
I'm gonna pretend I never heard you say that.
