bling581

November 30, 2011 at 10:55am

I'm still having some video issues with Skyrim. The one thing I can't stand is how horrible the shadows are from fires. I walk into my Whiterun house and the shadows from the fire place make everything look so bad. There's a lot of things they need to fix besides making the trees look better. Things like missing textures, invisible spider webs and dragons (apparently using Ultra setting for shadows causes this), and other miscellaneous graphic glitches plague the game at the moment. I have an Intel i9 Extreme processor and GTX 580 so power isn't the issue. No other games have given me so much trouble, not even BF3.

Chances are it's Bethesda's issue and not drivers, but who knows.

LatiosXT

November 30, 2011 at 9:02am

They could've picked a better screenshot, since ambient occlusion does more than just make the trees look prettier.

I just hope this one's better than the Fallout 3 compatibility hack for AO I've been using.

hammeredtoast

November 29, 2011 at 3:46pm

I guess I'm not really used to seeing ambient occulsion shaders with textures affixed to them.

 

I feel that BF3 will benefit a lot from this, however. In the eyes of a 3d modeler.

 

EDIT: Okay, okay! I saw the '3' in the abreviation "MW3" and in my mind, it registered as "BF3."

kixofmyg0t

November 29, 2011 at 3:42pm

I read "New", "Drivers" and "Skyrim" and thought "Let me guess this is something to make the trees look better"

Then I saw the comparison shot of the trees. 

Thank you for proving me right. 

All Skyrim mods=endless pursuit of perfectly rendered trees to bash console fans with.

SilverSurferNHS

November 29, 2011 at 12:39pm

This bricked my Skyrim experience for the moment. Tryin' to figure out a workaround before rolling back. (GTX480 SLI W7 64) "diaplay driver has stopped responding" was the crash

restoring skyrims profile fixed it, and i then enabled one by one the advanced features (AO, HQAF) and for some reason it works fine now

wierd because it was consistantly crashing with that error until i restored the profile 

I Jedi

November 29, 2011 at 11:24am

Thank you, Paul. I look forward to testing out this new beta in MW3.