LadyCrimson

Husband. Skyrim. Cat brushing/playing/hugging. Skyrim. Dishes, house chores, roast in oven, shower. Skyrim. Check on roast, watch husband play Rage. Skyrim. Cooking/eating & noticing black kitty likes tortilla chips. Skyrim. ...it's a good life.

NPC's always seem to be cold in Beth games... Stop hogging up the cooking pot. Honest work, honesty pay. And woodchips up my nose. Here wolfie wolfie wolfie... NOOOO...not the bunny. The horror!

@Maria - ah...thanks. Hm. I need my usual weight-carry cheat mod. Hehe. I typically like to double it. Another question, where do you buy a pickaxe for the mining? Don't see it in the first town, maybe I missed it. ...after running around randomly exploring topside w/my D. Elf, creating a Breton & a kitty (but not playing them yet), finally doing the stuff everyone else in the world has already done. Haven't actually had time to play too many hours yet either. Hopefully that'll change tonight.

1-Once I learn a spell, do I need to carry the book around with me? 2-Can you stash stuff anywhere that isn't "owned" - eg, is anything safe outside of houses you buy?

How about....is there a console command to stop the player chr. view from spinning round and round and round when you haven't moved for a few minutes? I had a mod to turn that off in FNV but no Skrim editor yet...keep looking through the console command lists but...

@ Gorgon, it's like all the other Beth games ... hit the tilde ~ key (edit:on US keyboards anyway, not sure about other regions). Most of the usual commands seem to still work, but probably not all. I'm still waiting for the editor to be released...

I agree. Usable, but crappy. While sightseeing and following the roads, I had this urge to shout "I just like RUNNING." (Gumpisms) Outside, topside, is a bit too non-populated for my liking. I mean, almost empty. But it's a big world and maybe I just haven't hit the right spots yet. Or maybe there's clvl or story points where it increases a bit? No crashes for me yet. No trouble at all, really, yet. I did force vsync off via GPU drivers (I typically do by default, only turn it on if a lot of tearing). Whether that really did disable it in this game I'm not entirely sure, but performance has been fine anyway.

Sight-seeing in 3rd person with 115 FOV set in the console. To be honest, haven't done much in the game besides run around looking at scenery. Got to the 1st town, everyone asleep, so I kept on running. Foot run speed is pretty fast on it's own, unlike some other games.

Just reporting that I'm having no trouble using the mouse in the menus, either for scrolling or clicking. The character creation point, those menus & the System/settings menus were a little more hinky, w/the mouse feeling sluggish to respond, but it did/does work. The inventory/loot menus etc. it's been smooth & fine. So if you can't use your mouse in there, it must be a bug? Haven't done the hotkeys yet...just started really. Mouse "look speed" feels either a tiny bit too fast or a tiny bit too slow with the slider bar notches. Haven't turned off mouse acceleration. Graphically on max everything it looks somewhat better than I was expecting, on my rig. That picture I posted of the bad-textured rock? Definitely in the game (table wood, up-close chains, etc), so agree @ about the varied texture stuff. fps goes up and down quite wildly but feels mostly smooth. My first character. Still no idea what I'm going to do in the game yet. Time to play more and find out. Or go to bed. I'd expected to start earlier than I did and now it's already 2:40am. Bah.

FINALLY. I is playing. Looks a bit better than I was expecting, overall. Still the low-res textures here and there but definitely good looking overall, even if not cutting edge. (click 4 fullsize)

Finally done, started the game..... (edit) nvm on the fraps thing, figured it out.

Interesting, thanks. Hm. Wonder why it's never worked for me in any other game. When I click on .exe's I get the 'login to steam' window. Will be curious if it works on Skyrim or if it'll still pull up Steam. Hmm....

Not playing still cause chkdsk is taking forever...but stupid question... Can you all run the game w/out Steam running at all (not even in task tray) by clicking the .exe file? I saw some people say you could, but I've never been able to. I don't let Steam run on boot up tho, maybe that's why?

Based on screens/vids only, I don't think I'll have a problem w/the big UI text. I remember ppl having issues with inventory text/page size in Oblivion too. Never bothered me. Can understand big text for consoles w/ppl wanting to sit far away but it would be nice tho if they'd shrink it down for the pc versions. Guess that's why they give us the editor. Which I still can't download/isn't available.

Making a backup of steam game directory (everything else already redundant enough) and then a mirror /image of the whole drive in case I need to do a disc format later (for ease). Cooking some steaks for dinner. Watching hubby play Rage. It looks really nice on the 50" plasma TV (a lot better than Borderlands did). Waiting for Skyrim.

Don't know, the poster said he took them from Egaf forum users or something. Just had a seeming random major issue with Firefox 3.6 borking up & crashing my pc something awful, maybe corrupted something in Win7. Installed FF 8 and it seems to be better but drat, I should probably reformat after all that. Don't wanna right now...too close to Skyrim. Hope I can hold off a while, hehe.

The rock in this pic, for instance. http://h3.abload.de/img/tesv2011-11-1021-48-0k5d23.jpg (might take a bit to load, their server seem slow)

Anyone tested/looked to see if the game utilizes more than one CPU effectively?

Thanks for all the info, Tig...much better than the "reviews" from players on the Beth fora, harhar. I'm still convinced the game has a good shot of capturing my attention....maybe not as much as FNV did (not sure that's even possible, lol) but much more than the others I've tried since then. So still eager to start playing it myself!

Here is a short "Ultra settings" 1080 vid someone posted of the starter town area I think. Still not "actual HD" in full screen (it's YT) but looks fine non-full screen/gives an idea.

Tigs, someone posted that the game has an out-of-game extra options bits, like FNV had, and that just setting to Ultra didn't automatically increase some of those to max. Did you mess with those? Not that I'm expecting anything to change some of the muddy textures. Some textures don't look too bad/pretty good imo, but there's still a lot of the close-up blur stuff. Even on weapons you're holding. Edit: and no matter the screen/vid, I still don't like the artwork of the trees. I seem to in the minority tho...some poeple think they look like a photo, which makes me LOL.

7 hours. *dancing with impatience* Played more Rage last night...but hubs got further in than I did. He was liking it until he reached a spot where he had to win some car races to progress and he rage-bored-quit. Heh.

That pretty much sums it up for my way of thinking. I'm getting used to it actually. Most of the time I find some config. that works, tho some are worse than others of course. (edit..man my brain-to-typing skills really are going downhill in bucket. srsly)

Supposedly you can use WASD for the menu navigation. From a Beth fora post: More:

Maybe there's an .ini setting that can override that? ...the hair in this game still makes me go "ugh." It's more line-detailed perhaps, but the artstyle or whatever ... ugh. lol