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evga told me to d/l the beta drivers they noticed lag and other issues in the game but they told me the beta drivers should clear up some things in skyrim .. hopefully the patch would also help

ZOMG, thanks for the links!

Don't forget Icewind Dale series too!

Nasty

bleh to the new patch . it seems to have broken more things than it fixed

Anyone know where the official site for Skyrim is?

I lost use of the mouse in game and I had to restart the game to get it running in-game again.

A while later for no reason I could see, Skyrim crashed to the desktop. They sure are writing craptacular game code these days....so sad.

Nasty

http://www.elderscrolls.com/skyrim/
http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/f ... -v-skyrim/

good luck

Thanks for the links...

Nasty

they had a patch earlier in the week but honest to god i dont know what it fixed the game still looks gorgeous the game still slows to a crawl at times probably the graphic drivers trying to catch up its like driving a beautifull car but you can only drive 1 mile before needing to call a mechanic

I'm about 15 hours in and really liking the game! I have only had 1 CTD at about 6 hours. I remember thinking that was way longer than it took for Fallout3, but faster than FONV. I am using Win7 Home, XFX 5850black, Corei5 2500k@4.4, 8gigs RAM, and a MSI P67 mobo.

Graphically, the only thing that really bugs me is when I look from a dark area to a bright area...well, I gues it is my character's eyes adjusting to the change. Wonder if there is a way to turn that off?

i keep crashing lvl 40 already and didnt even get past the first main quest and so far im sruck on all the side quests its taking forever

I believe that is the result of High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting. I haven't looked in the Skyrim settings for that, but in Oblivion there wasn an option to turn that off and go with "bloom" lighting instead. Or turn it off completely, but that kind of degrades the realism.

I'm finding the entire experience very satisfying. However, I tried to do ALOT of side quests before commencing in the main quest to experience the most out of the game. Now that my character is "King Shit" against anything you put it up against, the enemies seem too easy for me now. I am a Nord with skills mainly in the archery and the sneaking department. Everything is just too easy to kills now. Frost trolls are dead in 2 shots, Giants in 2 shots, and Dragons in anywhere from 5-6 legit shots. I'm running out of shit to do lol. I'm level 29 as of now for reference.

im doing mostly melee fighting smithing im up there but the game is boring me already especially since im crashing too often and one of my memory sticks died

It was the memory stick killing the game, not the game itself.

I would run Memtest86+ on the remaining stick of ram to make sure it is ok and not tossing errors...one error and you need to replace the stick.

Nasty

i bought those sticks as a set so if one blew a gut i should test the other? gskill id replaceing the blown unit
i admit i dont have experience with blown memory sticks it was a first for me ..
when i get home ill test it .. what should i look for ?

oh and p.s. i just got diablo 3 beta invite and so far im hooked and addicted .. only issue i have is when blizzards servers burped and went offline for a few minutes .. but i DID NOT CRASH TO DESKTOP .. like skyrim

how do i run memtest says i have to make a bootdisc to a floppy or something but my system doesnt have a floppy drive

You can burn it to a CD - just use the instructions here under Windows Installation section:

http://www.memtest86.com/tech.html

Most of the CTD's people have been having is due to Bethesda compiling the game with a 2GB address limit.

Yeah, as if it weren't enough to keep it DX9 to keep it "in line" with the Xbox360 version, and throw in a heavily consolified UI, they had to compile it with a 2GB address limit!

There's a work-around patch you can get at TES Nexus:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013

I use this, and it works like a charm. Pretty much cures the issue entirely. You can tell it's the memory addressing issue because it doesn't crash until you've played for a while, and your character has more loot, more quests, etc.

Be sure to check out some of the other mods that have come out that improve textures (drastically!) foliage detail, shader quality, female face quality, and there's a really great one for the night sky as well.

i tried it and it didnt work right.. i think the 1.3 patch also has 4gb address

On a side note, does anyone else find that being infected by vampirism sucks the big one? I cannot stand continuously having to sneak into civilians homes just to keep the vampire effects under control. I got sick of having to do this and above all got sick of EVERY township and clan attacking me because I was too vampire-like.

(If you also hate this "perk", just go to the Companions base beside Dragonreach and follow their quests. In doing this you will eventually acquire lycantrophy, AKA being that of a werewolf. Which in my opinion, is so much sicker than having to continuously suck peoples blood periodically.)