don't go into your in-game menu.

These low res hands/weapons are caused by going into and leaving the in-game menu.

To avoid this low res bug for now is don't go into your in-game menu.

I guess you all just have to wait until Bethesda patches it.

To be honest, if this was happening for me, I wouldn't care, I would be too focused on exploring and having fun doing so.

ill just play from disk, until an official statement has been made.

Hey everyone,

I'm in Belgium and I've had the game since yesterday. I can confirm that the game itself is incredible, but unfortunately also that the texture problem is real. I installed it to my Xbox's HDD and noticed some really bad textures here and there. Nowhere near everything, mind you, just particular textures such as moss, carvings in the wall or certain items in the item menu. The problem seemed to get worse the longer I played.
Then I uninstalled the game and played it straight from the disc. At first the problem persisted but as I kept on playing for a while, textures improved again. Now it's only leather bracers in the item menu that still look blurry and bad. Everything else looks fine to great. I'm almost perfectly happy now.

It's just a bit unfortunate that I have to play the game from the disc, not because the loading times are longer (the difference is nearly indiscernible) but because the white Xbox is a bit loud when playing games off the disc. Luckily I have a good pair of headphones. Wearing those while playing the game makes the scrumptious sound that much more immersive, by the way.

Oh, and as for patches, the game came with a 3MB update, so I don't think that's the real release day patch.

I'm sorry haven't been paying attention to this issue.

Is this problem on officially released copies, or on pirated versions?

I got the game yesterday for Xbox, installed it to my HDD, downloaded the patch and I also have the low res texture problem. It does not ruin the game for me and the lighting effects and the scenery far away are still looking good, so I'll play with low res textures until it gets fixed. The menu does not seem to be causing the problems because if Ii start up the game I immediately have the low res textures, not after I open the menu.

There is a 0% chance that Beth hasn't been monitoring this thread. They're obviously aware of this issue, they just know something we don't...

0% chance is pushing it. There's equal chance the don't think its an issue, They don't want to admit there's a problem, They want to see how the larger public reacts, or they just plain don't give a [censored].

Did you clear your system cache, that might get rid of it.

Probably the latter, they do know about it but they also have more important bugs to deal with. I would rather have this issue then my game randomly freezing or having a Greybeard fall off the top of Throat thus breaking the main quest.

my pro opinion : the reales day patch (the real one no way its 3 mb) will fix it. or beth will fix it later AND GIVE 360 USERS HORSE ARMOR AS A FREEBIE!

All 360 patches are small (8MB max i think) cause Microsoft does not allow for bigger patches.
I saw patches on PS3 weight 500+ MB while they are 4MB on 360 and they still fix same things.

I'm sorry haven't been paying attention to this issue.

Is this problem on officially released copies, or on pirated versions?

Cause patching doesn't need to be big, there only changing code, or text. When you see big patches like that then it usually means there adding new content like new maps or items.