Please show me, most reviews I have seen state they look pretty much the same, the PS3 and Xbox versions that is of course the PC version looks better cranked up to 1920X1080 etc I am running Skyrim on my PS3 through HDMI on a 52 inch Sony Bravia Full HD screen and it really does look fantastic, not just saying that, even in 720P with Skyrim textures on the most part look sharp, colors are bright and the scenery is just breathtaking! Draw distance is amazing and the pop-ins arn't that noticible, this is MY opinion in my circumstances. I found myself just before staring in wonder at the Auroras spreading across the Tundra sky with the wind whistling bye, it truly was magical, probably the most sureal experience of my gaming life... then a wolf had to ruin it by leaping onto my back

If someone wants to get nitpicky and compare freeze framed issues then I will bring up an article I read that states that the Xbox loading times are MUCH longer than the PS3's, twice to three times infact.

My save file is at 10Mb the initial load time is 10 to 20 sec at game start, I had long load times when entering or leaving buildings/dungeons but after unchecking the save on travel box these times tumbled to 3 to 7 sec.

It is funny how we get used to less waiting, some of us would happily sit in fromt of a C64 for 5 min or so waiting for a game to load in off a tape.

you can't upscale the game to 1080p, its 720p native and the (european version) will not allow you to upscale. I have a full hd philips 5000 series tv

Fatlog, the reason why you are seeing fuzzy textures on the game is due to a antialiasing technique called FXAA which is a low performance cost method of eliminating the jaggies on the objects, items and enviroments edges of the game. By having a low performance usage of the gpu this a common technique that some developers (the lazzy ones) uses to achieve the jaggie free image quality but the bad thing is that it will make all the textures assets more fuzzy and therefore "low resolution", because although it has the same resolution than the 360 version, the artwork will never be as good as the sharpy 360 visuals....
If you search the forums you will be able to see some threads requesting a patch to give us a choise to disable this feature in order to achieve better visuals, but since Bethesda can even adress the top priority issue, the lag, this is will never going to be rectified. So, as the other users are saying, make sure to enable full hdmi range to on and super white to on too, on the display settings of your ps3. And also, sometimes the Ps3 upscalles the game to 1080p if you have that option turned on. I dont have Skyrim so i dont know if this is the case, but you should definetily chech it (if you have a sansumg Tv as do i, you can see the resolution you are outputing by clicking on the INFO button of your tv remote on the game!. if says 1920x1080 you are on 1080 p and you should force ps3 to run as 720p, 1280x720). Again, to change this go to the display settings of the ps3.
Hope this information helps!

http://www.lensoftruth.com/head2head-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-screenshot-comparison/

http://www.lensoftruth.com/head2head-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-anolysis/

It's all there.

It is funny how we get used to less waiting, some of us would happily sit in fromt of a C64 for 5 min or so waiting for a game to load in off a tape.

Pff not that silly link again, firstly they are aligned with Microsoft and Xbox it is well known who pays their checks, much like IGN is with the PS3, secondly, like I mentioned earlier in this topic, I have run BOTH PS3 and Xbox versions on my TV and cannot tell ANY Difference except that the PS3 version seemed a little brighter! Its a load of hogwash trust me I have seen it with my own eyes!

Did you scroll down a bit to where they compared loading times on the PS3 compared to the Xbox version? No? Skipped over that? You might like sitting there looking at loading screens but I have better things to do with my time, I have 2 year old daughter to look after Xbox loading times were 2-3 times longer than the PS3's and your nitpicking the pre-patched PS3 version by comparing still screenshots? ha!

yes you can! You can do the upscalle. It will be a bad upscalle since RSX is very bad at doing it. Thats the reason why i told Fatlog to check the output because they are some games which have 720p as native resolution (as Skyrim) but Ps3, by a unknow reason upscalles the game to 1080p; and since the game native resolution is 720 p and the RSX upscalling tecnology is bad, you will see a very fuzzy game!

LOL ooh.. the conspiracy's are coming out. The proof is right there... you can choose to admit it or not but I really don't care either way. All I was saying was the xbox version IS graphically superior and I offered evidence. As far as the loading time goes... I run Skyrim off my xbox 250gb hard drive and my loading times are nothing at all. The longest loading time I've had was like 10 seconds and that was loading an old save.

LOL ooh.. the conspiracy's are coming out. The proof is right there... you can choose to admit it or not but I really don't care either way. All I was saying was the xbox version IS graphically superior and I offered evidence. As far as the loading time goes... I run Skyrim off my xbox 250gb hard drive and my loading times are nothing at all. The longest loading time I've had was like 10 seconds and that was loading an old save.

you can't upscale the game to 1080p, its 720p native and the (european version) will not allow you to upscale. I have a full hd philips 5000 series tv

Hi,

My question is about graphics on PS3. Sorry if this is already a topic somehwere else but I have looked through other posts and the majority seem to be concerned with the lag issues on PS3. I haven't encountered these yet as I am still fairly early in the game. No doubt I will have that pleasure soon!

My issue is the graphics. Are they really that poor or is there some issue on my side? They are blury and very low res. They are not sharp at all. Dungeons in particular are poor. It can be hard to make out any sharp detail unless you are right on top of something. Everything seems just blurry and washed out.

Is this a known issue with the PS3 that Bethesda have acknowledged or are we all getting the run-around?

Maybe I am just looking back with rose tinted glasses but I honestly think Oblivion looked much better. Much much sharper.

Also I can actually see the textures redrawing/rendering as I move. I can see low res textures being replaced as I walk. About 5 metres in front of the player. Especially in third person view.
It actually looks like it is being played in SD instead of HD.
And before anyone asks I am playing this on a 32" HD samsung tv which was only purchased a few months ago. So the issue is not there.

I've seen some screenshots (from PC/360) and the textures are infinitely better. I dont get any shine on walls or any real detail even up close.

All I am saying is they are PAID for the results to appear that way just like IGN are by Sony, read up on it you would be surprised Dude if you read my post I have seen BOTH versions running side by side, frame by frame on my PS3 switching between the 2 to compare and I can see NO difference except the PS3 version seemed a little brighter! I have both, why would I need to lie to you? Trust me dude there is nothing wrong with either versions they look pretty much Indentical just like the IGN review states, there you give one sites argument then I counter with another lol Whoever pays their bills equates to who comes out smelling better, it is business my friend.

In regards to loading that is a known fact, even your link mentions this hehe

Its not quiet true....because i had a friend he has a an old samsung LCD tv (fullhd) and hes screen unscaled the 720p games to 1080p...and the
games they showed terrible....

i mean the PS3 settings were 1080p....the game were 720p...and the screen has not gone down to 720p automatically.....and the picture were awful....

Maybe I have not made myself clear, let me re explain.

I have a modern HDTV FULL HD. with HDMI 1.4 ARC and I have a slim ps3 120gb

My tv and ps3 settings are set to full display settings i.e. the ps3 see's all resolution possible from 480p, 576p, 720p. 1080i, 1080p

I have games like Fifa 11 for example that:

If you leave all the above settings i.e. (full resolution display settings - automatic) the game will play in 720p (game native is 720p), now if you disable 720p from your display settings by maunally removing the 720p tick box, the game upscales to 1080p

Gt5 which runs at 1080p native, will run at 1080p on my tv without any settings needed to be adjusted manually like mentioned in the ''FIFA'' example.

Now in skyrim - if you leave the display settings to auto (all display res availavle 480p, 576p, 720p. 1080i, 1080p) the game will run in 720p, if you do the same step as in fifa by disabling 720p in order to make it upscale to 1080p the game will not upscale in this case and runs in 576p. same it does for other games like MGS4, PES2012 etc, few are the games that upscales.

NOW pleas note that i am refering to EU PS3 with EU GAMES and not USA versions etc, as if not mistaken on the american version on the box it states 1080i which on the EU version in states 720p

regards
Gianni

On XBOX360, the code will eat all available memory up to 512MB, and guess what? Sometimes it eats so much that there is not enough for graphics! So on XBOX360, they will usually have lower graphics compared to the PS3 (like draw distance and things like that).

YES I PLAY WITH THIS SETTING........IT WORKS VERY WELL....[CONFIRMED]

RBG full is more for monitors, isn't it? Certainly on my tele full mode causes black crush. Best set it to limited imo. Unless newer tele's are better than my old Bravia...