The OFFICIAL Anandtech Forums TeS V: Skyrim Thread

[QuantumPion]

Bah I still can't decide whether to go with a mage or 1h+shield warrior. I've heard that mages are really gimped later on because their spells don't scale in damage at all.

 

[thespyder]

oh crap. thanks for letting us know.

then how do we run multiple characters? move the safe files around when you want to switch?

I noticed this last night myself. Was playing my Breton Mage and wanted to switch to an Orc Warrior. The Auto-save saved right over my mage. Then when I wanted to go back to my Mage, I had to hunt and peck to find my save.

I thought that DA:O handled this much better. all of your saves, including the auto save, were sectioned off into a separate menu. You could easily see/switch between characters and never lost anything.

Seems to me that if several players all play on the same machine that you should be able to switch without a problem and so much confusion. Hope this gets fixed at some point.

 

[Jaiguru]

Can anyone tell me if theres any benefit from using daggers over say a sword ore axe besides the Sneak perk that makes sneak attacks do 15x damage?

 

[hans030390]

I've heard that forcing AA and AF through CCC entails some performance hits. Maybe that's the issue?

No, it's Skyrim's implementation of AA/AF that apparently causes an abnormal performance hit. People recommend turning it off in Skyrim and forcing it through the display drivers if you still want it.

 

[Red Storm]

No, it's Skyrim's implementation of AA/AF that apparently causes an abnormal performance hit. People recommend turning it off in Skyrim and forcing it through the display drivers if you still want it.

Oh really? I've been using the in-game option on my 5670 and have had no issues running at medium settings.

 

[AMDZen]

Oh really? I've been using the in-game option on my 5670 and have had no issues running at medium settings.

You should Turn everything to 'High' and then turn AA/AF off.

I bet its likely that now it runs better and looks better too.

 

[Josh123]

I'm enjoying the game as well, I just wish I had more time to play. I rented it first on Xbox 360 then decided to just pick it up on PC. Holy crap it's 1 million times better on the PC.

My guy is a level 8 Nord who is going two handed specialization. Right now he is using an Ancient Nord Battle Axe of Cold or something like that. It's pretty fun crushing enemies like a Viking

 

[IGemini]

I noticed this last night myself. Was playing my Breton Mage and wanted to switch to an Orc Warrior. The Auto-save saved right over my mage. Then when I wanted to go back to my Mage, I had to hunt and peck to find my save.

I thought that DA:O handled this much better. all of your saves, including the auto save, were sectioned off into a separate menu. You could easily see/switch between characters and never lost anything.

Seems to me that if several players all play on the same machine that you should be able to switch without a problem and so much confusion. Hope this gets fixed at some point.

I haven't tried it but this seems more relevant if people are all playing Skyrim on the same Windows account. Skyrim save files go into your Documents folder (which is the norm for most games and hasn't changed since Oblivion), DA:O took it one step further by treating each character name as a separate file.

Pro-tip, DON'T rely on the auto-save, kids.

 

[Anteaus]

If you had the ability to name your saves it wouldn't be as bad as you could just add your character name to the saves to keep track, but the names are auto generated from what I see, which only makes it harder to know which saves are for which chars.

 

[Red Storm]

I haven't tried it but this seems more relevant if people are all playing Skyrim on the same Windows account. Skyrim save files go into your Documents folder (which is the norm for most games and hasn't changed since Oblivion), DA:O took it one step further by treating each character name as a separate file.

Pro-tip, DON'T rely on the auto-save, kids.

Me and my brother played on the same PC and Windows account, so I took things one step further and emailed my saves to myself just to be sure.

 

[waggy]

ugh it needs a good patch. i usually get 60 fps then all the sudden it drops to 6 fps and the mouse is a pain to use.

 

[-Slacker-]

Ah, dropping items on the ground to pick them up later ... always a pleasure in this game. And by pleasure, I mean head-banging-against-the-wall frustrating. Especially when you exceed your carrying capacity.

You should Turn everything to 'High' and then turn AA/AF off.

I bet its likely that now it runs better and looks better too.

Really? Don't the textures look bad from an angle without AF?

 

[-Slacker-]

ugh it needs a good patch. i usually get 60 fps then all the sudden it drops to 6 fps and the mouse is a pain to use.

Does it happen when there are heavy particle effects like smoke or fog?

 

[RavenSEAL]

i finally bothered to keep an eye on GPU statistics during gameplay. Crossfire is looking UGLY, REALLY UGLY.

 

[waggy]

Does it happen when there are heavy particle effects like smoke or fog?

Nope. i swear its random. worst part is on some parts you have to walk on like fallen trees. it sucks falling off because it laggs heh.


edit: hmm not that im paying attention it does seem to do it when there is smoke

 

[-Slacker-]

Yeah, the moving around when the game is lagging part is especially annoying but, fortunately, it hasn't gotten to the point where I need to tap the wasd keys gently so I don't fall of something. Yet.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Epic moon mod!

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=51

 

[thespyder]

I haven't tried it but this seems more relevant if people are all playing Skyrim on the same Windows account. Skyrim save files go into your Documents folder (which is the norm for most games and hasn't changed since Oblivion), DA:O took it one step further by treating each character name as a separate file.

Pro-tip, DON'T rely on the auto-save, kids.

So absolutely. Auto-save is only useful if you need to immediately reload.

And it is just as relevant for those schizophrenics among us who play multiple characters. It's a PITA to switch back and forth. Ok, maybe not that bad. But I can still like the DA:O model significantly better.

 

[Jaiguru]

oh crap. thanks for letting us know.

then how do we run multiple characters? move the safe files around when you want to switch?

No problem, its good to know that my misery and woe went to some kind of good use.

Seriously though, what game ships now without the ability to save under separate profiles? This isn't 1998. Oh well time to level my Khajit assassin.

 

[Locut0s]

Epic moon mod!

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=51

Always amazing to see how fast the mod community gets to work. They haven't even released the construction kit yet and we have this moon mod, detailed faces, star field upgrade, and tons of others. I bet a lot of people dig straight into the database/texture/ini files before even playing the game.

 

[Locut0s]

No problem, its good to know that my misery and woe went to some kind of good use.

Seriously though, what game ships now without the ability to save under separate profiles? This isn't 1998. Oh well time to level my Khajit assassin.

Most?

 

[Merad]

Edit: iPhone decided to post early

 

[thespyder]

Edit: iPhone decided to post early

They are taking over the world. Apple is the new Skynet and Iphones are their "UI".

 

[hdeck]

just had my first CTD in the middle of a dungeon no less...time to start over on that one...

 

[Jaiguru]

Most?

Are you asking or telling? Anyway, it seems like it wouldn't be too much of a hassle for the developers to implement profile specific saves to their games. And like someone mentioned earlier, just the ability to rename your save files would help tons yet Skyrim doesn't offer it.

Pretty much my only gripe towards an otherwise perfect game.