Rant ahead

When I found out skryim was coming out, I was excited to say the least. I had played Oblivion for countless hours, some of those in surround on a friends rig, and knew that I needed something nice for this game. I was currently running a gtx 580 and 27" and thought, naw, I need more to truely see this game. 3 27" widescreens, dual evga gtx 580's, new 1050w psu and water cooling to overclock every bit of power out of my new hardware. I even wait in line to get my collectors edition at midnight.

After the unboxing I get my first supprise. The game doesn't install... really? wtf are these discs for? I check, no scratches.. just bad design. So I get steam installed from the disc.. thats about it, and now a huge download... w/e. I finally get it installed, time to play right? Wrong. Game won't even start.. wtf again.. lots of searching and I find I have to lower my audio quality.. Wow, really? Ok, one more issue.

I fix it and finally get in the game(missing the title screen, I was tired) and the opening scene in surround is amazing, until you actually start playing.. wow, fail again. (anyone with surround knows all about this). So I shelve the game, refusing to play without the full immersion of surrround, hoping for a fix. Finally thanks to Hayden over at widescreengaming, I get a taste of the game.. for a few minutes. Crash, crash, crash... wow..wtf again (again?) More searching, more searching, LAA patch, finally in game... yay, epic surround skyrim gaming..for a bit. Patch comes out and ruins it, placing the game back into my unplayable pile. (This happens up till now, 1.4)


I spent a lot of damn money on getting the collectors edition, and put up with a lot from Bethesda, (like them selling me [you, everyone] a beta copy of a game) mainly because [eventually] they deliver; well.. I'm still waiting.

If others, in their own free time, can find fixes to the terrible, terrible ui and map issues with multi monitor set ups... how is it you can't? At the very least, stop breaking fixes with your patches! (3D menu fix, Helifax WS fix, Hayden WS fix, LAA patch (before 1.3), etc, etc)

Bottom line... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop neglecting surround gamers. This is the type of game that is MEANT to be played in surround!

When?


When hell freezes over apparently...

I would like true Eyefinity support as well. Oblivion and Fallout run fine with it, but now I am forced to play at 1920x1080 in Skyrim to actually see the menus.

I agree. It is time for them to speak up and say either "we are working on it", "we will have it working in x.xx patch", or at least a "screw you we are not going to spend time on this".

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1340144-eyefinitysurround-ui-issues-merged-similar-topics/