Filthy Textures : V - Skyrim

» Fri May 11, 2012 2:09 am

Do you have the latest version? http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

Yeah i've got the latest drivers.

Anyway guys, i've sorted it out.

It was the graphics drivers. when i updated them via steam something must have gone wrong.
I rolled them back but that was no good, so i decided to do a quick re-install of Windows 7, that sorted things out.

Everything looks, and plays, a lot better now, and Skyrim is an absolutely amazing game. Thanks Bethesda!

Thanks for the help guys. Kudos!

» Fri May 11, 2012 6:58 am

Not trying to flame the game or anything,

But did I really pay ￡40 for a game that looks like this? (fullscreen them to view it at my ingame resolution):

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/52/screenshot7ry.jpg
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/406/screenshot6u.jpg
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/853/screenshot5nm.jpg
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/508/screenshot4mc.jpg
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/535/screenshot3mi.jpg
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/810/screenshot2pg.jpg

I've got everything on the highest setting, full AA, full AF, full draw distances on everything, and running at 1920x1080 on a 40" tv
And it still looks like this?? Even 8ft away it looks bad.
I know it;s more about the gameplay than the graphics, but in a game where you're supposed to be immersed, this really breaks it.

Don't even get me started about the animations and crap interface on the PC.

AMD Phenom 2 550 BE 3.1GHz (unlocked to quad core), AMD HD6950 2GB (flashed to 6970), 8GB 1066MHz RAM, Windows 7 64bit.

its you or something.. i am on xbox 360 and they are exponentially better than that

» Fri May 11, 2012 2:15 am

I've been told it's a technical issue and Bethesda is working to fix it. Not sure how you change the fact that the game shipped with 512x512 textures in 2011 but I made a thread in H&S per moderator suggestion http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1257146-pc-textures/page__gopid__19166957#entry19166957

perhaps because these textures are ment for long distance?
lot of games do this texture swap trick to render stuff at a distance
seems to me there's some problem preventing the proper texture from loading

» Fri May 11, 2012 6:40 am

I've been told it's a technical issue and Bethesda is working to fix it. Not sure how you change the fact that the game shipped with 512x512 textures in 2011 but I made a thread in H&S per moderator suggestion http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1257146-pc-textures/page__gopid__19166957#entry19166957

perhaps because these textures are ment for long distance?
lot of games do this texture swap trick to render stuff at a distance
seems to me there's some problem preventing the proper texture from loading