Just Switched From PS3 to PC...Wow! : V - Skyrim

» Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:29 pm

Isnt that why everyones playing now?

I can guarantee you if PC had, for whatever reason, no mods... Skyrim would be non-existant on PC.

That certainly isn't the only reason why people choose to play it on the PC.

I play it on the PC because it's all I have. I've always been a PC gamer. The first systems I gamed on were the Atari 400 and Atari 800. Those were not game machines. From there I went to PC. I've never owned a console. My parents would let us have one, though certainly I had fun playing them at my friends' homes. Now that I'm older and can afford to buy my own console, I just have no interest in doing so. Certainly not this late in their life cycles. The PC is simply my platform of choice and I'd still be playing on it even if I couldn't mod my TES games. I simply like the PC's flexibility and control schemes. When you find a game that was actually designed for a PC (as opposed to a crappy console port), it's absolutely beautiful what you can actually do with it.

» Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:35 am

I have it on the PS3 and I'm really happy with it

» Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:04 am

I got the game first on 360 and was awed by it. Beautiful graphics, fine interface, smooth gaming.

Then Steam had a sale and I bought it for PC. I was unimpressed. I got ridiculous frame skipping, no matter what I set my graphics level at. Didn't matter if I set it to the absolute worst or the absolute best settings, when I walk around in Skyrim, I got skips and stutters (*not* slowdown).

I tried a FPS limiter and it "sort of" works with high settings (it works not at all on lower settings, and ultra settings are too much for my machine), but I still get too much skipping and stuttering whereas I had *none* of that on the 360. The only reason I continue to play on PC is because I can mod it (and I've tapped out the experience on the 360). The limiter did drastically improve the problem, but even a single skip within 15 minutes is one too many (again, because I had none of that on the 360, it infuriates me that I must suffer it on my PC).

Then there was a problem with drivers for my video card and needing to tweak certain settings everywhere so that textures were showing up correctly... god what a pain in my ass. Is it too much to ask that everything "just works" like it does for me on the 360? I guess so.

All in all, I remain unimpressed with the PC version even though I can mod it. That stupid frame skipping issue (especially before the limiter) makes me insane and I just can't play for long periods of time without wanting to break things.

» Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:21 am

I got the game first on 360 and was awed by it. Beautiful graphics, fine interface, smooth gaming.

Then Steam had a sale and I bought it for PC. I was unimpressed. I got ridiculous frame skipping, no matter what I set my graphics level at. Didn't matter if I set it to the absolute worst or the absolute best settings, when I walk around in Skyrim, I got skips and stutters (*not* slowdown).

I tried a FPS limiter and it "sort of" works with high settings (it works not at all on lower settings, and ultra settings are too much for my machine), but I still get too much skipping and stuttering whereas I had *none* of that on the 360. The only reason I continue to play on PC is because I can mod it (and I've tapped out the experience on the 360). The limiter did drastically improve the problem, but even a single skip within 15 minutes is one too many (again, because I had none of that on the 360, it infuriates me that I must suffer it on my PC).

Then there was a problem with drivers for my video card and needing to tweak certain settings everywhere so that textures were showing up correctly... god what a pain in my ass. Is it too much to ask that everything "just works" like it does for me on the 360? I guess so.

All in all, I remain unimpressed with the PC version even though I can mod it. That stupid frame skipping issue (especially before the limiter) makes me insane and I just can't play for long periods of time without wanting to break things.

What Graphic card are you talking about ?

» Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:46 am

All in all, I remain unimpressed with the PC version even though I can mod it. That stupid frame skipping issue (especially before the limiter) makes me insane and I just can't play for long periods of time without wanting to break things.

Yeah - I have the same problem. The frame limiter improved it, but didn't get rid of it. The game is smooth as glass when I'm indoors, but outdoors it skips. It's worse in 1st person; playing in 3rd person smooths it out a bit.

» Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:00 am

Have any of you made a console to PC transition and were awed or were you on the PC boat all along?

I haven't played videogames on a console since the PS2. I have never looked back. PC ftw!

» Sat Jun 16, 2012 11:26 am

Same here man.

Bought Skyrim for the PS3 at the midnight release and played it pretty extensivly up until about may of this year. Bought a PC that can handle it and yeah...

WOW! I get so distracted looking at all the cool stuff, blew my mind. Tried hard not to go overboard with mods haha