I am downloading at about 150k/s at the moment, so it is still operating, probably just not allowing any more till I am done muahahahahahaha.

I'm not too surprised a High Res texture pack is 3GB. Thing is, most of the space taken up by a 3D game are usually the textures. Each texture is basically a bitmap image, and the higher-res the texture, the more pixels per texture. The game has what - hundreds if not thousands of textures?

I believe texture files are basically square or rectangular in shape (when rendered in the game, they might be almost any shape, but the actual file will be approximately rectangular, but have regions of "transparent" pixels which never get rendered by the game engine).

In general what this means is that when you double the resolution, you quadruple the size - if your resolution started off as 300x200 = 60,000 pixels, and you want to double it, you basically create a files that is 600x400 pixels = 240,000 pixels.

So, does Steam Handle the DLC as basically seperate "games" in your Library, or does it have a completely seperate UI for the Steam Workshop? That is, is the Steam Workshop just a collection of pages on the Steam Store which look to the Steam Client like you're adding new games to your Library?

Edit: That is to say, do you click a button which effectively does the same thing as when you click the "buy" button to buy a game, except the items have a cost of "free"?

It should be enough to deselect HighResTexturePack01.esp and HighResTexturePack02.esp from within the Skyrim Launcher, as if you were disabling any other mod. That should stop the bsa's loading. If not, just move all four files (two esp and two bsa) out of your Data folder.

I started in Breezehome and didnt see much, got out in Whiterun and was looking around for things that looked better, underwhelmed.. got outside and now I can really see the difference. Water looks great, fur looks awesome... My card is chugging though on 4xAA 16xAF.

Steam servers are too busy.

Guys, would you mind pausing your downloads for a bit so that I can get mine in?

I demand screenshots!

I second the motion.

So I have to go to the Steam Store and actually double click on it ?

I'm taking Steam screenshots, its just too busy to display them.

I don't think it's going to be so easy, I think the new bsa files will overwrite the default ones... BTW downloading right now, hope my poor vga will handle it...

No they are completely new BSAs with ESPs to activate them.

You basically go to the store page and "buy" the DLC - it then gets added to your account and it should then start downloading shortly

Great news! The only bad thing is that doing so skyrim will take 3gb more space in my poor man's hdd

psh, I got my little SSD to worry about, realestate in there ain't goin cheap.

Anybody know exactly where the Skyrim files (executable, and everything else) is located in the directory tree? I can't find anything except Steam.

Find where Steam.exe is located, from there \steamapps\common\skyrim

I had not downloaded the files when I made that post. If they are packed as separate BSA's and ESP's, then it will be easy to remove them, or test with and without.

The only screenshots I can see on steam are the press stuff we've seen sometime around September...

Finally my decision to get the 2 GB version of the GTX560 card is paying off.

Ah. The Steam executable is only 17,192 kB in total? Really?

On mine its under Steam, SteamApps, common (I believe.. not by computer right now)

Yea that's why I want one of you goof-balls to post up real screenshots since I'm stuck at work for 2 more hrs ! ;P

Any FPS drops that are noticeable?

Those screens are so old, some of them from the beginning of 2011.