The game is surprisingly clean from game breaking bugs, everything you just typed about are either graphical problems or random game problems, first of all Horses are a major improvement from Oblivion, stop losing your horse then ffs, if you spend your time trying to find it then riding it then you must be stupid or something, fast travel somewhere and it will show up, and how the hell did you manage to get stuck in a rock, avoid mountain climbing, follow the roads,
And about the dragons they are [censored] hard, I died frequently, if you think they are too easy, set the difficulty to master or something.
And from what I've seen and played Guards don't have telepathy as they did in Oblivion, I completed the Dark Brotherhood quest-line so I'm pretty sure they aren't TELEPATHIC, most of the problems you've experienced and easily be fixed if you think of what you're doing ....
And last but not least, you're bothered by the textures of random rocks ? Why would you even go right up to a rock and look into it to spot the wrongs, you need to know that Skyrim has a huge [censored] world, and the graphics are amazing for a game like that.
Skyrim is a master piece, even after playing it for hours and hours i still have LOADS to do. GOTY and GOTC.
Not GOTC but GOTM. Period.
editing to add: I wonder if they're running the graphics off an HD TV?

I'm a hard core PC gamer ever since Origin's Ultima Series (NOT the online game which was f@cking crap) made D&D RPG what it is today. After EA f@cked up the Ultima Series, I thought the RPG genre was dead. That is until I ran into Daggerfall. Didn't become completely hooked until Morrowind, and have been a devout fanatic of the Elderscrolls ever since.

Anyhow, I was sitting on the fence on whether to buy Skyrim for the XBOX vs PC.
The downside with the console platform is the lack of ability to fine tune and tweak your system performance. The PC finally won out because of this, especially in the graphics dept. I'm really glad I made this decision, expecially after upgrading my graphics card from a GTX 285 to GTX 580. And particularly given the past migraines having to tweak my old gaming rig for Oblivion. This time around, I decided to invest in a decent gaming system.
I run the game on a 24" flat panel, i-7 3960X @ 3.3GHz, 24 GB DDR3 @ 1.3GHz , 1TGB HD, GTX 580.
Right after installing, I nearly

because the game textures in that opening scene were completely [censored]. It took several hours to sort out the tech issues on my rig, especially the CTD one. So I totally feel for the OP on the issues they're having in the graphics dept. Makes me REAL I glad went the PC route. When not caught in the middle of a blizzard, the panoramic views of Skyrim are truly $#@!&^*?@! spectacular on my 24" flatscreen!
