Have you tried to clear your console's cache? Do you have much harddisk space free? If you've tried it, and you've a lot of disk space free then just wait for next patch hoping it fixes the issue.

It's still 720p (or lower) resolution graphics on consoles even if you have a 1080p TV. Very few console games run with 1080p.

Oh no trust me dude I've TRIED IT ALL. A good 10 total hours of my life I will never get back. All just to try and fix a game!

I've never had to go through this much BS with a game EVER. Yes I had bugs in Fallout 3 but really that's it! It's absurd that us console players have no say in what get's fixed and what doesn't, nor does it happen to all of us just a select few.

Nonetheless, they shouldn't just shrug the issue away like it's not happening. If I honestly could record in-game video and send it to them and truly show them, I would. But I can't. That's what's hindering most console players FROM getting certain things fixed.

Honestly a screenshot feature would do WONDERS as far as reporting bugs, etc.

I went to a buddies house after reading this and fired his game up.
I went to he middle of a Forrest and just sat there. It took about ten min. Before the bark of one of he trees changed.
I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it, but it did.
It went from close to what I see on my pc, to looking like pudding spread on a thing that looked like a tree.
As soon as I moved it went back.

Strange.

nvm.

I had to change my last post.

I have a warning status now?

But yeah, blowing on your equipment does wonders.

alot of people here say that skyrim in PC looks better than consoles right? well i can tell you my skyrim looks WAAAY better than my friends PC version even when he have alot of mods on it like the FXAA process injector, of course exept the textures mods, but really my game looks beautifull, i can make the game more colorfull with the secret service menu of my samsung HDTV, plus add more contrast, shadows, sharpening, shaders, alot of CRAZY [censored]!!, so yeah, maybe my disc its a golden edition or my PS3 its blessed, if there would be something that bother me it would be the SHADOWS, the shadows looks really bad IMO, its like a moving chainsaw its that bad =/
PS: sorry for my english ; )
EDIT: My friends pc its a GAMING pc with 1080p, and maxed out skyrim settings.

Yeah sure....

pretty sure buddy

Sounds legit.

I did the same thing with a co-worker. His game looked exactly like mine. My key places where the steps to the left of the Drunken Hunstmen in Whiterun and most parts of Riverwood.

I cleared my in-game cache and am taxing the living crap outta the system. It has already officially froze on me once.. but I'm gonna still push it.

Basically what I do is go into a city like Whiterun and save. Go back to the dash and go in the game and clear it. Then I leave Whiterun and just sprint my lil heart out (+WW Sprint) and try to force the game to make itself load the textures.

Though even after doing this it still doesn't bring them back all the way...

Well OP seems to be a couple eggs short of a carton, but here's my 2 cents. If you were following the bugs board, you'd know that one of the patches introduced texture streaming (on console at least) to improve stutter and draw distance. So all textures now show up lo rez at first, then gradually upscale. While it does improve performance, it has a noticeable visual effect that seems like a step backwards. You have to wait a while for a scene to fully rez up, whereas before it was loading at higher res from the beginning. You'll also now notice that waterfalls in the distance are frozen, and won't animate until you get fairly close to them.

Someone always says something like that but it's BS. A computer to run Skyrim efficiently on Ultra is expensive. If it didn't take much money at all I'd have one.

Then if that's the case we need the same thing but again in 1.5. Otherwise the game will never bring itself to the textures that it should be loading. I don't understand how long I have to wait.. one time I was in Markarth for close to an hour and the textures remained the same.

Same goes for Whiterun.

Yes I've noticed some of the things like waterfalls not too far off being frozen and some textures taking way too long to load up. I didn't relate it to 1.4 but now that you mentioned it I don't think the waterfalls were like that before the patch. It annoys me a bit. I haven't seen a performance upgrade so I don't know what it's supposed to help because the game was runnning just fine for me with 1.3.

SAME HERE bro.. same here. Only problem was bookshelves/weapon racks.. which I can seriously live without.

PC UBER ALLES! ALL HAIL THE MASTER RACE!

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The trouble is that the xbox is now old tech so the chances of it running something like skyrim and not struggling are zero. Whatever they do in any patch they release will involve some kind of compromise.The problem they have is akin to trying to make an old tube tv give the same picture quality as todays HD flat screens.

Do You have your 360 set to display 1080p?

There are laptops running Skyrim on ultra.

Dude, just buy a $600 PC and enjoy the graphics you appear to be jealous about. This thread is going around in circles and will not go anywhere, your only course of action is to upgrade the hardware which means buying a PC.

Lol, $3k Alienware laptops. Not your wussy notebook.

I am running skyrim on ultra with texture packs on my 2 year old laptop (Asus G73). No it did not cost 3k.

http://tinyurl.com/falconguide

Buy the build with the 460. That'd be more than adequate.

You guys act like Skyrim is some uber graphics hog or groundbreaking. In places, it's very poorly optimized and somewhat more demanding than it should be, but Skyrim is -nothing-, especially vanilla Skyrim set to Ultra, compared to other games out there like Crysis, BF3, etc.

Has more to do with their age then anything else.
Might wanna inform yourself a bit better cuz your talking [censored].

Before 1.4 the only problems I had were bookshelves and honestly, who gives a damn about that, as my textures were fixed with 1.2 and I had no further complaints... After 1.4 I have terrible frame-rate problems as I watch everything in slow choppy motion and random freezes coming to about 4-5 times a day, shout failures every other combat engagement, getting stuck in walls, quest breaking bugs that happen every single time, and the list goes on and on. On top of that my textures are messed up again so not only am I seeing a performance DECREASE I'm seeing a graphics decrease. It's post like this that infuriate gamers who know their platforms and have spent vast amounts of hours enjoying the game as it should be, as it was intended to be, gamers who have actually seen their platforms handle the game perfectly and with flying colors at that. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the original poster, he's not some whiney kid who didn't get a damn lollipop, he's a gamer who desires nothing more than getting his game back to the way it WAS.



This is what I'm referring to, if it was one or two textures I wouldn't even complain but I'm seeing entire towns with muddy textures... I'm not asking for hi-res textures like the PC has, I'm sure they payed good money for those gaming PC's. I'm simply wanting my Xbox 360 textures back... the textures I've seen with my own eyes. I don't want an addition or an upgrade to my game... I want a fix. For all of you who's game is running perfectly fine, that's wonderful, and I'm very happy for you... because not so very long ago, my game was running perfectly fine to. Bethesda is a wonderful company and I'm sure it will get fixed, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with someone coming on these forums in the meantime to discuss the very relevant concerns they have. It is our right as fans, individuals, and consumers to desire a fix, without having to listen to a bunch of flamers that have nothing to contribute whatsoever to the problem.

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I'm on the newest 360(the slim) which supports 1080p, and my TV runs on 1080p and after patch 1.4 I have noticed a difference in the fram rate, resolution, load times, and everything that the OP has stated.Now before patch 1.4 the draw distance was twice that of what it is now after 1.4, the biggest give away for the difference in resoolution are the doors!!! Before patch 1.4 I was able to see the grain of the wood that the door was made of the min. I looked at the door going in or out, now the door is of Oblivion quality(lowres) and remaines this way for a count of 2-3mississippies( seconds).Waterfalls looked amazing, they continued to "flow"(if you will) at a great distance, now after patch 1.4 they look horrid and do not load their textures for once again a good 2-3 seconds.The fram rate in Rifton is nothing short of atrocious and I'm sure if the game ran the way it does on my NEW 360 on a PC I would be marred with CTD's. Also, since patch 1.4 my game has a tendency to freeze at least 3 times in a 4 hour sesion, thats almost one freeze for every hour of game play and if I'm correct my 360 freezing is just like a PC CTD!!! Which leads me to belive that if all of what has been happening to me since patch 1.4 was happening to a PC player they might be a little more sympathetic to both my issues and the OP's, we are not crazy!!! And like was said in an earlier post I know my 360 inside out, I know what it is capable of and it is able to run the same textures as a PC there are numerious games for 360 with PC quality graphics/textures, SKYRIM biging one of them before patch 1.4.