Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

walTer · 2011-11-14T13:00:33.000Z

kerzain:

No, not true. But, you’ll auto and quicksave over your old saves if you don’t create a separate save game for your prior character.

Ok hmm…gotta be careful then and label correctly. This takes some planning I think. Cool thanks.

Erik_J · 2011-11-14T13:14:18.000Z

walTer:

Ok hmm…gotta be careful then and label correctly. This takes some planning I think. Cool thanks.

This is one of my pet peeves about the game. I’m not sure you can label saves, unless I’m just missing something, which is entirely possible.

Sebmojo · 2011-11-14T13:27:46.000Z

Erik J.:

This is one of my pet peeves about the game. I’m not sure you can label saves, unless I’m just missing something, which is entirely possible.

I believe there’s a console command - might just be ~ to bring up the console then ‘save (filename)’ without the quotes, but I wouldn’t swear to it.

You can tell which character is what by looking at the save files ingame, though.

Pogo · 2011-11-14T13:31:11.000Z

If this is a consolized game, then I’m amazed they haven’t added in profiles yet. It would make sense to have a profile with its own saves for each of your characters instead of the archaic SAVE001 screen they have now.

walTer · 2011-11-14T13:32:40.000Z

Yeah i am on a PC but I just totally blanked on the save function- I can’t remember how easy or not easy it is to name a save to keep it straight-

All this because my daughter wants to play too.

Scuzz · 2011-11-14T14:19:42.000Z

I spent part of my lunch hour in a Best Buy (went there to fill out the Harry Potter movie collection $4.99 for all but 7b) and bought Oblivion but I ended up spending most my time listening to the sales geek just gushing about how great Skyrim is and how much fun he is having.

I might have bought one but he said “the whole town is sold out right now”.

kerzain · 2011-11-14T14:21:44.000Z

I’m sorry for your loss.

Pogo · 2011-11-14T14:27:30.000Z

HRose:

I would definitely use it if on my PC that difference of handful of FPS wasn’t crucial. It makes things look wonderful, especially long range and structures. I was also relishing looking at the stitches on someone’s cape. It sharpens things but also gives them an outline.

It helps a lot since textures are usually softened by the render.

Sorry, you’re just being kind of silly. I took screenshots and I suppose I could post them, but sharpening only looks good in some situations, like in town. The sharpening and half-assed FXAA going on in those shaders makes high contrasting edges look like shit, especially things like tree leaves, brush, and flowers. It also turns the landscape into a subtle acid trip as you move through it for the reasons I stated before.

Not worth it.

John_Reynolds · 2011-11-14T14:37:37.000Z

The CE strat guide showed up today. Took a forklift to move it from the delivery truck to my front porch. Very nice book, definitely worth the $23 I paid for it.

Scuzz · 2011-11-14T15:25:00.000Z

kerzain:

I’m sorry for your loss.

I thought I would give it a try…if I don’t like it I will move on to Skyrim next.

instant0 · 2011-11-14T15:29:15.000Z

PC Version.

Open the console
Type save <name of savegame>
Done.

Saves you from going into the UI.

If you want to load the savegame. Guess.

If you want to quit the game, type “qqq”

Daagar · 2011-11-14T16:21:29.000Z

Pogo:

Sorry, you’re just being kind of silly. I took screenshots and I suppose I could post them, but sharpening only looks good in some situations, like in town. The sharpening and half-assed FXAA going on in those shaders makes high contrasting edges look like shit, especially things like tree leaves, brush, and flowers. It also turns the landscape into a subtle acid trip as you move through it for the reasons I stated before.

Not worth it.

What about http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=131#content? I haven’t yet tried it myself. I did switch from using AA to FXAA and was quite happy with the performance boost. It does makes textures a bit softer, but not distractingly so.

Sebmojo · 2011-11-14T16:28:12.000Z

Pogo:

Sorry, you’re just being kind of silly. I took screenshots and I suppose I could post them, but sharpening only looks good in some situations, like in town. The sharpening and half-assed FXAA going on in those shaders makes high contrasting edges look like shit, especially things like tree leaves, brush, and flowers. It also turns the landscape into a subtle acid trip as you move through it for the reasons I stated before.

Not worth it.

Ahhh, is that what that is - yes, I’ve been noticing that shimmer.

I might disable it in that case.

Pogo · 2011-11-14T16:30:48.000Z

Daagar:

What about http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=131#content? I haven’t yet tried it myself. I did switch from using AA to FXAA and was quite happy with the performance boost. It does makes textures a bit softer, but not distractingly so.

I’m not like FXAA. I took some comparison screenshots and while FXAA gets rid of some of the sharpness of shrubbery, it dulls down a lot of other things.

I’m sticking to FSAAx8, but I don’t have a performance difference between the two (GTX 460).

That mod does look a lot better than the one HRose linked, though.

I actually want to decrease the amount of bloom and HDR in this game. I find the difference in light levels just from being outside and briefly looking up to be too jarring. It’s much more annoying in a dungeon with torches everywhere, too.

HRose · 2011-11-14T16:47:22.000Z

Daagar:

What about http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=131#content? I haven’t yet tried it myself. I did switch from using AA to FXAA and was quite happy with the performance boost. It does makes textures a bit softer, but not distractingly so.

That’s why I posted the sharpen filter, it doesn’t just sharpen things, but also applies a better form of FXAA. So one filter blurs and the other sharpens back.

I also posted a comparison screenshot that actually represents the worst case (the darker shadows are also unrelated to the filter).

Daagar · 2011-11-14T16:49:24.000Z

Hmm, I might have to do some more serious comparisons between FXAA and FSAAx8 then. I have a Radeon 6850 which I think is supposed to be more or less the same as a GTX 460, so I should be able to pull off the same. It “felt” slower/hitchier at the time…

Pogo · 2011-11-14T16:55:09.000Z

BTW, discussing graphics tweaks and mods should probably go in the other thread. I’ll stop replying to things here.

HRose · 2011-11-14T17:20:04.000Z

Here’s a quick test. Vanilla, the sharpen+FXAA and the one linked by Daagar.

As you can see the two have the exact same sharpen filter and Daagar adds a lot of saturation, and for that reason is also slower.

Btw, you can enable/disable the filter on the fly by pressing pause/break

mkozlows · 2011-11-14T17:25:47.000Z

Wow, yeah, that’s some serious “hey guys look at my photoshopping” overcooking.

Joe_M · 2011-11-14T17:41:37.000Z

The only good injector profiles I’ve seen so far look pretty much exactly like Skyrim does without it, so I really can’t see any reason to bother with that silliness when I could just be playing the game.