[sunny lovett]

Not inciting discussion about the HDD texture issue. Obviously, some of us will have the game before others, so, I was hoping, as a civil service to this forum, whoever gets Skyrim and plays it first can post here whether the day one patch fixes the issue, so the rest of us don't have to waste time installing it. It would be nice is all, so please keep it in mind, and bump the thread upon applying the patch. Please feel free to add a report despite others posting one so we can develop a consensus as more people play.

(Would be REALLY cool if stickied, or temp locked by mods, and then bumped up on release date.)


Thanx for the cooperation, if any.

[Big mike]

Or...nawt...

[Ezekiel Macallister]

Unless the developers decide to comment we'll not know whether the graphics issue with the X360 is a genuine one until the game becomes available on Friday.

If the claim proves to be accurate, at least we will be able to play the game in 'hi-res' directly from the disc. However, this can bring its own problems.

I install games to my hard drive for 3 reasons:

1. To reduce loading times
2. To minimise pop-ins and other graphic problems and bugs
3. To reduce console noise and heat-of the X360 'toaster.'


The first game I found to really benefit from installing on the hard drive was Oblivion!


So, if the reported issue is genuine the 'work-around' will probably be at best a compromise.

Let's hope its inaccurate or fixable. But I would like to hear the developers' view...

[Mimi BC]

Here's the pre-install prep I did last night, just in case:

1. Formatted a 16Gb Sandisk Blade on the Xbox to use as the game install target
2. Cleared the Xbox System Cache

Installing the game to USB Drive leaves the HDD to do the necessary cache work.... that's the theory anyway

There is a great article http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xbox-360-storage-update-the-flash-factor-article which compares differing USB devices and includes a comparison using Halo 3 - which came with instructions from Bungie NOT to install to the HDD as it caused performance issues!

Edit: Here's a quote from the article I linked above:

Bungie's sophisticated caching system made heavy use of the hidden partition on the Xbox 360 hard drive. Installing to that same drive caused a whole bunch of unnecessary HDD to HDD transfers resulting in significant performance drops. With the inclusion of the USB devices, these multiple transfers still occur, but the data isn't being streamed to and from the same drive any more.

The test results for Halo 3 level loading times went like this:

USB was faster than DVD which was faster than HDD...