The OFFICIAL Anandtech Forums TeS V: Skyrim Thread

[Locut0s]

Same as 11.11b with RAGE fixes.:biggrin:

Nope this adds CrossfireX in 5000 cards

 

[RavenSEAL]

Skyrim — what we’re working on

As of today, it’s been three weeks since we released Skyrim worldwide. We’re simply blown away by the response, from new and old fans, and amazed by the sheer number of people playing the game. It’s been absolutely fantastic hearing your stories, seeing early mods, and watching fan videos (more live music ones please, we love those).

We want to thank everyone reading this for playing our game and supporting all it tries to do. We wouldn’t have this success without you, and we want you to know we’re committed to making your Skyrim experience even better. And not just in the short term, but over the life of the game. Here’s a quick peek at what we’re working on right now:

Creation Kit — Beginning in January, PC players will be able to download for free the same development tools we used at Bethesda Game Studios to create Skyrim. In tandem with the Creation Kit’s release, we will roll out a new Wiki and videos to help you get started. It also features something we think you’re going to love…

Steam Workshop – We’re excited to share news that we’ve been working closely with Valve to integrate Steam Workshop into the Creation Kit. Using the Workshop, you’ll have free user content with the push of a button. The Creation Kit will bundle your mod and upload it to the Workshop, where everyone can browse, rate, and flag mods for download. You’ll be able to do this from any web device, including your smartphone. Like a live Netflix queue, when you fire up Skyrim, mods you flagged will be automatically downloaded and installed. Everyone here is really excited about the opportunities and possibilities this opens up for our entire community.

Prefer to use existing modding sites? Not a problem. You’ll still be able to upload/share/access Skyrim mods on fan-created mod sites.

Continued Game Updates – This week we released update 1.2 across all platforms, and we’ll be releasing an incremental update next week. We anticipate it will be up on PC first, and then hit PS3 and Xbox 360 later in the week. Among other things, the update will fix issues like magic resistance not calculating properly and the rare, amazing backwards flying dragon. Once the update is released, we’ll share the full release notes.

After the holidays, we’ll continue to release regular updates for the game — through full title updates, as well as incremental “gameplay updates” to fix whatever issues come up along with rebalancing portions of the game for difficulty or exploits. We plan on having a lot of these, not just a few. Overall, you should expect updates to be hitting the PC and Steam earlier and more often, as that’s a process we control. Console updates will follow, as they must be certified and processed by those manufacturers.

We all know this is a huge game, and everyone has a different experience. We’ll continue to do everything we can to make the game better and better for as many people as possible every day. We’ve also realized that with the millions upon millions of people playing Skyrim, we need to treat our updates with greater care. If we get too aggressive trying to fix a minor issue, we run a risk of breaking something larger in a game like this. To be safe, we are prioritizing code side fixes right now over data fixes. Quest and balance issues are usually data, and those will start rolling in a large way with the January updates.

Thanks again for your continued support and patience. We truly have the best fans in the world, and we couldn’t do it without you.

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/12/01/skyrim-what-were-working-on/

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

The frankness is refreshing considering the source

Let's see if they keep their promises.

 

[RavenSEAL]

The frankness is refreshing considering the source

Let's see if they keep their promises.

I 100% agree, I love developers that are honest and upfront; so sick and tired of the bull**** developers like DICE spew all over the place.

Whatever DLC BethSoft releases, I will buy.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Nope this adds CrossfireX in 5000 cards

You my friend, are correct. I bow to your epicness. :biggrin:

 

[TallBill]

Damn, thats badass what they are doing with steam. Looks like I will get it on steam whenever I end up with a decent enough pc.

 

[WelshBloke]

I 100% agree, I love developers that are honest and upfront; so sick and tired of the bull**** developers like DICE spew all over the place.

Whatever DLC BethSoft releases, I will buy.

Unless its horse armour.

Awesome game though.

 

[ControlD]

Can someone explain to me how the smithing perk requirements work? Currently I have a smithing level of 34 and I would like to take the Elvin Smithing perk (I currently have the Steel perk only in the tree). According to the smithing skill tree, Elvin requires a level of 30 but I cannot take the perk. I don't get any message, it simply just won't select. The same goes for Dwarven Smithing. I am guessing there must be some pre requisite but without a message I cannot figure out what I am missing.

Thanks!

 

[Dahak]

You have to follow along the line and have the previous perk in the line before getting the later ones. So you would need to click on steel smithing first, then you could get elven or dwarven

 

[ControlD]

You have to follow along the line and have the previous perk in the line before getting the later ones. So you would need to click on steel smithing first, then you could get elven or dwarven

That's the thing. I already have the steel smithing perk.

 

[Mem]

That's the thing. I already have the steel smithing perk.

You get perks at each level up,so if you have used them all up wait until you level up again then you can put the perks in the skills you need.

 

[sigurros81]

Not sure if it's been posted but CCC 11.11C is out!

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=4180470#post4180470
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst1111cperformance.aspx

AMD Catalyst 11.11c performance driver features



· Elder Scrolls Skyrim

New in Catalyst 11.11c: Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for the AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Improves performance 2-7% on single GPU configurations
Resolve corruption seen when enabling Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing on the AMD Radeon HD 6970 Series
· Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

New in Catalyst 11.11b: Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling
· Batman Arkham City

Improves DirectX 11 performance for single GPU configurations
· Rage

Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling
Resolves a number of image / stability issues seen with the title:
Fix geometry corruption, sometimes seen in Bash TV entrance
Fix issues with Low-memory conditions on 32bit systems.
Fix issue with extreme corruption with missing textures on 32bit systems.
Fix memory leaks when deleting/reusing sync objects.
Fix hitching and pausing, especially noticeable on some Quad Core systems when doing races and Stanley Express runs.
Fix some missing shadows
· Battlefield 3

Resolves intermittent corruption seen when playing the game at specific camera angles

WTF, does that mean 6000 owners will have to wait some more for Crossfire fix? I have two 6870s and would like to get some proper framerate

 

[terry107]

WTF, does that mean 6000 owners will have to wait some more for Crossfire fix? I have two 6870s and would like to get some proper framerate

The 6000 series scaling was addressed in 11.11b (and is included in 11.11c one line below the highlighted line in your post).

 

[Zargon]

I 100% agree, I love developers that are honest and upfront; so sick and tired of the bull**** developers like DICE spew all over the place.

besides matros DICE is pretty AWESOME about being truthfull and responding to the community, albeit a bit slow with client side patches

 

[RavenSEAL]

besides matros DICE is pretty AWESOME about being truthfull and responding to the community, albeit a bit slow with client side patches

Oh yeah, specially when they lied about half the features that were supposed to be included in the game and abided to the casual console fanbase.

I'll take Skyrim's CTDs any day over BF3's because I can at least play the game.

 

[gorcorps]

Damn, thats badass what they are doing with steam. Looks like I will get it on steam whenever I end up with a decent enough pc.

Regardless of where you buy it, you have to use Steam so it doesn't matter. Steam is Skyrim's DRM choice, and regardless of if you buy it from Steam online, a physical copy, or a key from Amazon you still have to link it to Steam.

 

[Zargon]

Oh yeah, specially when they lied about half the features that were supposed to be included in the game and abided to the casual console fanbase.

I'll take Skyrim's CTDs any day over BF3's because I can at least play the game.

lied about what features? and CTd's in one game are better than others?

 

[AMDZen]

Regardless of where you buy it, you have to use Steam so it doesn't matter. Steam is Skyrim's DRM choice, and regardless of if you buy it from Steam online, a physical copy, or a key from Amazon you still have to link it to Steam.

This isn't technically true, but as long as you follow the rules, it is.

 

[RavenSEAL]

lied about what features? and CTd's in one game are better than others?

You clearly didn't follow the game pre-release.

 

[slag]

I'm level 41, finished the main quest

Spoiler

to kill alduin, did the civil war questline

, and now wondering what is left. I've done most of the misc quests to go get an item for someone, etc, but that is boring and no challenge.

What is this I hear of a vampire that is uber hard to kill?


Also, I fast travelled to a place yesterday and got attacked by a dragon. While fighting that dragon, another showed up right as I was finishing killing the first. Disposed of both of them, wish I had taken a screenshot now...

 

[waggy]

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/12/01/skyrim-what-were-working-on/

ohh great.

at first i was worried you would have ot use there site for mods. good to see that you can still get them at skyrimnexux

 

[Mem]

lied about what features? and CTd's in one game are better than others?

Speaking of CTDs with Skyrim ,had 2 so far since 1.2 update,one was fast travel and the other was not.

I do hope they find the cause of these CTDs that a lot of users are getting.

I see the CTD thread is up to 44 pages long now ,http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1270631-crashes-during-gameplay/page__st__860 .


I'll say there's still a lot in the game to hold my interest,don't think I'll be finished with this game until next year at the earliest.

 

[cytoSiN]

Amusing (even though it's an old post). Anyone had something like this happen?

 

[Mem]

Some of the quest bugs I have are pissing me off now,full list of issues here http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Skyrim_Bugs .


I can deal with CTDs but when you start getting a few quest bugs you can't complete it gets annoying.

 

[Dahak]

Yeah, I hate quest bugs, I think i have ran into two of them, one was with blood ice or something. the other is with the theives guild. I cannot get it to progress. I have done tones of the job and did the 4 special jobs but still cant get it go to further. I remember I have to speak to maven black-whatever but will not advance