hey, i have skyrim on ps3, and the screen is really zoomed in, i mean like to far zoomed in. my TV is on 16.9 so its normal, all other games work fine. i put a question up on yahoo answers and i got a answer saying its a known problem that some disks accidently had an extra layer of protective plastic which makes the game zoom stuff up. im not sure if this is correct. but anyway, i can play the game perfectly well except for the fact that im missing some of the screen and in 1st person view you can only see half of the sword and half of the hand when i had the fireball spell on. someone please tel me how to fix this which will deffently work. like somewhere in the ps3 i have to change some setting or something, im not sure.

This is the first I've heard of this problem... are you sure your TV isn't set to "zoom" (an actual setting on my TV... I've got "normal", "zoom", "wide", "wide zoom", and "full")?

Yeah the game's kinda zoomed in on mine, too. Like some of the text is cut off a little bit. PS3, by the way. Is there a solution to this?

no its not zoomed in, its set on 16.9 like i said. when i press the zoom button on my tv the options are: zoom1, zoom2, 4.8 and 16.9. and its set on 16.9.

Upon starting up the game for the first time, you didn't get any prompts for adjusting screen edges (happens with some games)? If you go to options menu, video section, is there anything in there remotely connected to the issue?

yeah the text is cut off on the character creation on the rigtht side of the screen. i couldnt see all the text about the races. and on the top left when i try to press X while i had rope tied around my hands or whatever it was when i was a prisoner, said "ur hands are bound" on the top left, and it would of been "your hands are bound" if i could see the whole screen.

when i first started the game i didnt get any things telling me about adjusting the screen. and when i first noticed the screen was a zoomed in and i was losing some of the screen. i went to option and i click on display, i think it was display or video, anyway there was nothing there about adjusting the screen.

I'm not really sure what to do now other than sit here in a panic attack. I have no idea what could actually be causing it and if that happens to me with my PS3 version, I think I just might cry.

Its spot on for me!

haha im thinking of taking the game back to the store and replacing it for a new one. the disk might be a dud. first time its ever happend to me with any game and ive played like 200+ games

whats your ps3 setting on? like can you please tell me what your display settings are on? just go to setting and go down to display and tell me what their on please. see if thatll help me fix it. worth a try

well i'm not having the problems so its not really a lot of people or there would be more complaining.

Skyrim5 i'm not really sure what to tell you other than check your playstation settings just to be sure and try different settings for your tv.

SDTV? OR HD?

HDMI or Scart?

PS3 Setting 720p or 1080p/i ?

This is a known problem with several blu-ray (PS3) versions of Skyrim. In the factory, an extra layer of protective plastic was applied to some of the discs causing the disc image to be distorted.

Take the disc out and get some ajax, this will remove the plastic film coating the disc.

After purchasing ajax, pour it on the disk and scrub vigorously with a damp sponge. This will create several *light* scratches on the disc. This is to be expected. These surface scratches will not damage the disc at all.

What it will do is remove the coating allowing you to play the game as normal.

thats an answer i got on yahoo answers, can someonr verify this and tell me its correct? if its something to do with the disk, im not gonna put ajax on it, but i will take it back to the store and get another one.

uhh if your asking me what my ps3 is then i think its

HD

HDMI

and i dont think its 720 or 1080, i tihnk its soething like 500 and something. im not at home at the minute and wont be home til tommorow, so i cant check for you. but i tihnk i looked before i left home and it was something around 580 or something like that. that "might" be the problem

This happens all the time on the PS3 because games on the PS3 aren't consistent sizes. So you end up needing to change your TV settings around. I have to do this with Little Big Planet. Same with the lighting sometimes. It's not the game though.

That... that doesnt sound right at all. Im sorry but if an extra layer of material on the surface of the disk was the issue it would corrupt data, not blur the overall viewpoint, the games display isnt streamed off the disk, its generated by the ps3's GPU, so frankly i think someone was trolling you.


By 720/1080 i mean the setting the PS3 Dashboard is set to, when you setup the PS3 it will try to goto the maximum allowed by your tv, in my case my dashboard is 1080p and then downscales to 720 for most games. If your PS3 Dashboard is set to 580, then that suggest thats the maximum your Tv can handle, and that the problem might be one of two things: Either your TV cant support 720 In which case the game/PS3 has to downscale the games resolution (which could lead to the problem). OR.. Your TV can handle 720 yet the PS3 is set to 580 so its converting the skyrim resolution to 580. then trying to upscale it back to 720, leading to a loss.

Its no gurantee and im hardly an expert on the PS3's graphics drivers, but programming for the PS3 myself ive found its very very procedural, for example the second explanation, converting it down and then back up again, it will try to do instead of just recognising that it started as 720, and leaving it at that.


Im not sure if other TV's are the same, but if you have a samsung it will tell you in the corner what the resolution is at the start of the game, check this, if its running in 720, then try setting your ps3 to 720 in the display settings on the dashboard.

If its running in 580, then your PS3 is downgrading the resolution as your TV cant display 720. This COULD be the source of the issue.

well i have a 1 year old HD plasma TV and i have a good feeling it will support 780 or 1080. maybe i need to change it. im currently not at home right now and wont be home until tommorow

take it back to the store if i were you. stay away from online yahoo solutions, not
all of them would be trustworthy. getting a replacement copy would be the
route i'd take, safer.

ely

Well if its anything above 19" it should be perfectly fine with 720, in which case i cant understand why your PS3 is running at 580, If it is running at 580 check the PS3 settings on the XMB, under display. If you change it to 720 and it goes black /wont show anything dont forget you can reset the graphics by holding the power button (when the systems turned off) till it beeps three times, that resets the graphics. (just incase, the amount of times ive changed the res and it just sits black for 10 mins).

you know what, i think your right, i have a 32 inch plasma and i recently updated my system software using the Skyrim Disk, which might of triggered my screen to get smaller. since i started playing skyrim and had the screen thing on 580. the only other game i played was oblivion. and it worked fine. maybe since the game is older it will fit into 580, havent tried any other gameas on those settings. as soon as i get home ill check and if what you said worked then your a lifesaver, since skyrim is the best game in the intire world!! and i will virtully hug you haha.

Just go to your PS3 display settings and set it to 720p.

yeah but im not home im at My Grandparents place, my grandfathers really sick so i gotta stay here for the night, the times 9:30pm where i live and i wont be back home until around 11am/12am, then ill change it.

make a picture and show us how does it look like. I thought i have the same problem but now i think i was wrong and it supossed to be like that