HD Textures DLC is so huge! : V - Skyrim

» Tue May 29, 2012 5:12 pm

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/7780/testut.png

Can you see any difference between two parts of this picture ?

Nope, I can't! But if it's the normal maps that have been decompressed (I hope so) then the difference would be most noticeable when moving around or panning the view.

» Tue May 29, 2012 11:26 am

Bet these will look really nice with Yuril's bump meshes

» Tue May 29, 2012 1:56 pm

I downloaded the minute it was ready. Very impressed and performance impact is minimal. Little longer load times, but expected.

First thing you notice is NPCs. Improved NPC clothing is no longer needed. No More Blocky Faces is no longer needed.

Dwemer ruins look awesome. Everything is sharp. Lots of hi res texture mods are now obsolete, IMHO.

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:08 am

Here's a close up of the wood, and Half64 these anit compressed JPG's there Raw BMP's.

Close Up No HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/14dd3z4.jpg

Close UP HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/fnwc4n.jpg

» Tue May 29, 2012 9:47 pm

Looks like twice the original resolution. Nice improvement.

» Wed May 30, 2012 1:41 am

Here's a close up of the wood, and Half64 these anit compressed JPG's there Raw BMP's.

Close Up No HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/14dd3z4.jpg

Close UP HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/fnwc4n.jpg

Sweet! Thanks. Come on, internet, downlooooaaaaad damn it!

» Wed May 30, 2012 1:58 am

Here's a close up of the wood, and Half64 these anit compressed JPG's there Raw BMP's.

Close Up No HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/14dd3z4.jpg

Close UP HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/fnwc4n.jpg

Those are clearly JPGs.

» Wed May 30, 2012 1:27 am

DCDeacon updated on Twitter about the possible problems with the CK, Steam Workshop, Mods, Wiki. https://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/166976178593345536

» Wed May 30, 2012 1:12 am

Here's a close up of the wood, and Half64 these anit compressed JPG's there Raw BMP's.

Close Up No HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/14dd3z4.jpg

Close UP HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/fnwc4n.jpg

Well they are jpg compressed and downscaled on the image hosts site, LOL. Best thing you can do is upload a uncompressed bitmap at your native resolution.

I see the improvement though, which is good.

» Tue May 29, 2012 7:13 pm

DCDeacon updated on Twitter about the possible problems with the CK, Steam Workshop, Mods, Wiki. https://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/166976178593345536

We broke it? Let me guess: he works for Bugthesda, right?

» Tue May 29, 2012 3:59 pm

Cheating Steam, How I can stop the install to play !!!

» Tue May 29, 2012 1:22 pm

@Half64

Ahahaha my bad didn't see the .JPG extension, but yep there's defo improvement

» Tue May 29, 2012 10:31 pm

Here's a close up of the wood, and Half64 these anit compressed JPG's there Raw BMP's.

Close Up No HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/14dd3z4.jpg

Close UP HD: http://i41.tinypic.com/fnwc4n.jpg

Could we see pics of armor, swords and Shieds ?

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:15 am

I downloaded the minute it was ready. Very impressed and performance impact is minimal. Little longer load times, but expected.

First thing you notice is NPCs. Improved NPC clothing is no longer needed. No More Blocky Faces is no longer needed.

Dwemer ruins look awesome. Everything is sharp. Lots of hi res texture mods are now obsolete, IMHO.

I'll be surprised if isoku's awesome mods for water and fire will be invalidated.

There will be a bunch of other texture mods that must remain...night sky, skill screen, etc.

» Wed May 30, 2012 2:28 am

Why there are 2 .esp files for this DLC? Do you know if every files has a function or not? For example: maybe in one file there are ambience textures and in the another one, there are items.

» Tue May 29, 2012 4:38 pm

So what is the consensus regarding performance? Good, bad? I'm still downloading now, just wondering how it runs for you guys.

» Tue May 29, 2012 9:25 pm

@SiegFried

The ESP's are used for easy disabling of the Texture Pack, quite handy I say :tongue:

@MultiVaC

Performance is the same for me, same for my Brother as well and he has a NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB and the texture pack is running fine for him.

» Tue May 29, 2012 8:02 pm

Well, nice so far, unfortunately it has overwritten the face textures for my dark elf ... and she finally did look good. I am a bit surprised by that - shouldn′t the loose textures still be "active" despite of the new .bsa?

» Wed May 30, 2012 1:18 am

Well, nice so far, unfortunately it has overwritten the face textures for my dark elf ... and she finally did look good. I am a bit surprised by that - shouldn′t the loose textures still be "active" despite of the new .bsa?

That's what I was hoping, that the default processing order of precedence would be:
1. Built in vanilla textures
2. HD texture pack
3. Modded textures

» Tue May 29, 2012 9:28 pm

@Ashemanu

Yeah but I guess there being overrided by Beth's pack, you can easily turn it off via Skyrim's Launcher in the Data files button.

» Tue May 29, 2012 6:43 pm

RIP Skyrim hd textures are compete ass. They make everything look granny look and look unreal these looks much better and dont ruin look of the game. Thank you bethesda.

» Tue May 29, 2012 10:50 pm

I don't know how fast my wifi is, but the witcher 2 took 8 hours and in 3 minutes I am already at 4% on this DLC.

woohoo. by the time I finish my reading and cooking and shopping, this thing will have definitely been downloaded!

» Tue May 29, 2012 3:27 pm

Anyone with ATI radeon cards without powerplay turn on tried to run this HD pack?
my specs:
i7 2630QM 2.0ghz, 4gb ram, ati 6570M 1gb. It can handle ultra with 30 FPS with powerplay, though it gonna overheat.

» Tue May 29, 2012 6:41 pm

Try verifying the game cache through Steam. Your download might have missed or corrupted a few files. Same goes with the Creation Kit.

My problems with textures not rendering correctly and the Creation Kit not working was fixed by verifying my cache. If your experiencing these problems. I suggest you verify your cache. Thanks for the advice Tyraa Rane!

» Tue May 29, 2012 4:26 pm

Yep, just downloaded them, much better in a lot of respects, especially the clothes and faces.