Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

RepoMan · 2011-11-21T12:25:03.000Z

Wow, this makes me want to avoid tweaks (ugridstoload) that might burn more memory. I’d rather have stable than pretty, especially given that I am totally immersed in things as is.

Steven_Dickson · 2011-11-21T12:41:20.000Z

Pogo:

Quick question, since you’re running a system about the same as mine (though I’m on XP, E6850 dual core, 3gb RAM, GeForce GTX 460), do you get intermittent pauses during the game? About 3-5 seconds, usually compounded when running quickly through the outside world?

I had those pauses on my system (E6500 @ 3.85GHz, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 5770) when I had uGridsToLoad set to 7 and the interior/exterior cells bumped up. They went away when I reverted those changes back to the defaults. I suspect they’re caused by the asset manager eating up a lot of cycles while loading terrain assets as you move around the world.

Tracy_Baker · 2011-11-21T12:43:17.000Z

RepoMan:

Wow, this makes me want to avoid tweaks (ugridstoload) that might burn more memory. I’d rather have stable than pretty, especially given that I am totally immersed in things as is.

I don’t know if I could play this without ugrids set lower than 7 anymore. It makes such a huge difference that I’m willing to put up with saving more often and suffering through CTDs if it means not going back to 5.

Alistair · 2011-11-21T12:46:14.000Z

Unstable for me too. Various CTDs :(

Someone who knows more about this stuff make it better please.

Pogo · 2011-11-21T12:46:20.000Z

Steven Dickson:

I had those pauses on my system (E6500 @ 3.85GHz, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 5770) when I had uGridsToLoad set to 7 and the interior/exterior cells bumped up. They went away when I reverted those changes back to the defaults. I suspect they’re caused by the asset manager eating up a lot of cycles while loading terrain assets as you move around the world.

That’s unfortunate. I still had pauses before that, but I suppose the pauses weren’t as long as they are now. For uGrids 7 I’ll deal with it.

Eric_Majkut · 2011-11-21T12:55:10.000Z

Oh hey, look. Pogo’s abrasive attitude and apparent need to argue have once again invaded a thread. Great. :/

instant0 · 2011-11-21T12:59:53.000Z

Eric Majkut:

Oh hey, look. Pogo’s abrasive attitude and apparent need to argue have once again invaded a thread. Great. :/

???
I suppose you were reading something 100 pages back and responded to it, but it looks weird considering he wrote something just above yours.
Maybe You’re LARPing?

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That transmute thing sounds fun for making Jewlery. I’ll remember that for my next character.

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The LAA probably bugs with the Steam DRM Wrapper on TESV.EXE. I suppose you will have to snag up an old version of the .exe file (You did take a backup when you ran LAA didn’t you?)

And; You’ll have to disable automatic patching through steam.

And Disable it again every time Steam updates, as it has a tendency to reset all your settings, cause thats how much valve loves ya.

Aeon221 · 2011-11-21T13:01:35.000Z

Transmute is unfortunately a straight iron to gold route via silver. And yeah, there’s no reason to make silver jewelry when you could be making gold, so I turn it all into gold.

They’d really have me if I could make chrome horsecaps.

Eric Majkut:

Oh hey, look. Pogo’s abrasive attitude and apparent need to argue have once again invaded a thread. Great. :/

Hi, I’m sure this is relevant in some other planet, but on this one it’s not so hey shut up.

Sebmojo · 2011-11-21T13:01:35.000Z

Tracy Baker:

As others have mentioned, that patch didn’t do anything to my ini files but it makes the LAA patch useless. That patch must have been what was preventing random CTDs on my system, as the game is unstable as hell now.

For the first time ever, I hate Steam.

The stealth way they’ve done it is pretty irksome.

Dammit Beth, you were riding a TIDAL WAVE OF INTERNET LOVE and you gotta wipe out? Why you gotta be like that, huh?

Vesper · 2011-11-21T13:15:00.000Z

40k in money? Wow. I’ve never gotten above 7,000. Of course as a mage, I have to often buy spells from vendors. I suspect melee people don’t have to do that often.

Sebmojo · 2011-11-21T13:15:52.000Z

instant0:

The LAA probably bugs with the Steam DRM Wrapper on TESV.EXE. I suppose you will have to snag up an old version of the .exe file (You did take a backup when you ran LAA didn’t you?)

And; You’ll have to disable automatic patching through steam.

And Disable it again every time Steam updates, as it has a tendency to reset all your settings, cause thats how much valve loves ya.

If it only changes the exe, then it’ll be easy enough to find an old version - I took a backup, happily.

Aeon221 · 2011-11-21T13:25:05.000Z

Oh for those who are wondering, playing at higher difficulties means worse drops. I dropped down to the default difficulty (adept) and got more dragon parts than I do on the hardest (master). It was a big surprise.

Sepiche · 2011-11-21T13:32:03.000Z

Aeon221:

Oh for those who are wondering, playing at higher difficulties means worse drops. I dropped down to the default difficulty (adept) and got more dragon parts than I do on the hardest (master). It was a big surprise.

Have you seen that consistently happen? Because I’ve seen different numbers of bones and scales drop from dragons without changing the difficulty.

Alistair · 2011-11-21T13:32:33.000Z

Jeez. So problems removed by getting hold of a copy of the old exe, and re applying the LAA tweak. No crashes since then. And auto-update off.

Aeon221 · 2011-11-21T14:30:51.000Z

Sepiche:

Have you seen that consistently happen? Because I’ve seen different numbers of bones and scales drop from dragons without changing the difficulty.

I only checked the once to see what I would do to dragons on normal mode. It’s not something I care about because I’m already rolling in dough.

Also normal mode, I wtfpwn dragons. Master I still rock their socks, but it was hilarious how fast they dropped on Adept.

Royal_Fool · 2011-11-21T14:35:41.000Z

Alistair:

Unstable for me too. Various CTDs :(

Someone who knows more about this stuff make it better please.

I’m starting to get the black screen system crashes again. I thought the borderless window fix I posted earlier had resolved this, but I guess I was just lucky for a while.

Paul_cze · 2011-11-21T14:37:07.000Z

Well this fucking sucks. LAA placebo? My ass. That shit works. I had ugridstoload=7 with LAA applied, no crashes whatsoever.

Now I have ugridstoload=7 without LAA because of new exe, and fucking game crashed twice in one hour.

So I am going back to ugridstoload=5, I guess. Or get somewhere the original exe (I did not backup, stupid me).
Fucking Bethesda/Valve.

TimJames · 2011-11-21T14:49:32.000Z

Paul, this is the announcement thread. It’s been dead since the 11th! Check out triggercut’s post in the tweak thread for a workaround.

JM1 · 2011-11-21T14:50:52.000Z

Uh, you’re reading the dates on the posts wrong. This thread is constantly active :)

Paul_cze · 2011-11-21T14:54:00.000Z

Tim James:

Paul, this is the announcement thread. It’s been dead since the 11th! Check out triggercut’s post in the tweak thread for a workaround.

I am getting lost in all these threads :)
Ok I will shut up now and go check the other one for triggercut’s post.