My PC version of the game arrived a few hours ago, thanks to Amazon. After reading all the horror stories in the PC forum last night I was livid and prepared for the game to go on the shelf until patches or mods eventually came out to fix it. What I have experienced so far today after getting the game and playing it for the past few hours is the exact opposite.

My install started with placing the DVD in the tray and having it spin not load. In the past this is usually resolved by changing the speed of the drive but I just placed it in my second DVD drive and presto, took me to the setup.exe

Install from that point went flawlessly. Brought up my Steam Account, logged in, and it installed from my DVD to the "common" sub folder of my Steam directory. Install took about 20 minutes.

Game immediately detected all my equipment, set me at "High" which shocked me considering my PC is almost 3-years old (although I've upgraded the Video card).

After playing for the past 2-hours I have to say I'm blown away and loving this game. While I care more about gameplay than graphics, I certainly know good graphics when I see them and at "high" settings, this is one gorgeous game.

I'm already immersed and having a blast with my Orc.

My one and only issue was to hot-keying. When highlight items and press F to add to favorites, you then exit and press Q to bring up favorites and can assign a number sign to easily equip. The problem is if you have more than one of an item this won't work after the first time you use the hot-key, so in my case I needed to drop one of my two bows for it to work. With help from the PC forum I learned how to do that; simply go to items, highlight the bows and hit the "sheath" key to drop one; now all is well.

While I'm sure there are folks with real issues and hope Bethesda can help them soon, it seems to me the volume level of disgruntled PC gamers are casting the wrong expectations upon Skyrim. My system specs are below and so far, it's freaking awesome !!!!

OS: Vista 64
CPU: E8400 @3.0 Dual Core
RAM: 4gigs
GPU: Nividial 470 GTX
HD: WD Velociraptor
Sound: Creative Labs Champion X-Fi
Monitor: Samsung 245T 24" 1920 x 1200 Native
Mouse: Razor Naga
Speakers: Klipsch 5.1 Surround Sound (Works Perfectly. As I look around the sound comes from the correct directions. Just incredible)

Cheers -Terrapin

I am also having a great time so far, the game has issues textures, UI, menu etc but they will be fixed soon enough.

I've only had the one crash so I don't know what is happening to everyone else that can't get past the start menu for example. This game will be perfect soon enough

I've run into one huge problem. I CAN'T STOP PLAYING ;p

Lord, this game owns !!!

I'd love the game too. If it worked.

The main con I see is the usual Bethesda (and most Western games) problem: horrible character aesthetics so that I cannot make a character I empathize with (and violating their hyped marketing ploys). Here's hoping for mods, preferably shoujo race.

Aside from that, it seems fine, albeit not using the latest, greatest technology possible (but that may partly be due to the scope of content, a point that I have not seen mentioned in the forums).

I was pleasantly surprised by the graphics as well, with:
Operating System
MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP2
CPU
Intel Pentium E2200 @ 2.20GHz 35 °C
Conroe 65nm Technology
RAM
3.00 GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz (6-5-5-17)
Motherboard
FOXCONN Napa (Socket 775) 40 °C
Graphics
2219S-1 (1680x1050@60Hz)
768MB GeForce GTX 460 (EVGA) 40 °C
Hard Drives
313GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAJS-65B4A0 ATA Device (SATA) 30 °C

I definitely fall below recommended yet am able to run the game on high with no fps problems and even ultra (with minor fps problems).

The only problem I have is that I played 15 hours nonstop and I cant play again until tomorrow, I'm gonna be daydreaming a lot this first week

My main reason for making this thread is I want other potential PC Gamers to understand that while a number of folks are having very real issues, there are many like myself with the 3-year old computer specs posted with no problems and playing on high settings.

I hope Bethesda can address the various issues soon and patches come quickly for those who need help.

This game, when it works, as it is for me, is simply amazing.

-T

Works fine on my computer. I'm not encountering these mouse issues everyone is talking about. I only crashed once; in character creation.




@ OP: I was like you. I was ready for it to svck, and it was fun.