Skyrim released today! woot! woot!

[NedLynch]

Looks like Skyrim just went on sale (33% off) on steam.

[159th_Jester]

Yep 33% off. I'm downloading it at the moment. Going to be interesting.... Never tried this game genre before.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Skyrim was coded in some ancient code X87 or similar as one gamer pointed out on another forum so do not expect any drastic performance increases without big changes...

[JG52Uther]

Got it for my son for Christmas on ps3. He's been gone for hours...

[NedLynch]

Originally Posted by 159th_Jester

Yep 33% off. I'm downloading it at the moment. Going to be interesting.... Never tried this game genre before.

These Bethesda games are almost a whole genre by themselves, besides of course being rpgs. Very open world, pretty much all the freedom you want to evolve your character (the way you play is the way he grows) and play the game the way you want.

My advice, be patient, I remember the first Elder Scrolls game I played was Morrowind and I felt a bit overwhelmed by it.

Above all, take it slow and have fun.


And yes, it is a dx9 game, though there is a dx10 folder, maybe a future patch ? But performance wise I don't think anyone will complain, the game runs and looks rather beautifully.

[addman]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

Got it for my son for Christmas on ps3. He's been gone for hours...

and the hours turned in to days and the days in to weeks...... I failed an exam because of Skyrim.

[NedLynch]

A new Nvidia beta driver is available, it adds ambient occlusion to the skyrim options in the cp, plus skyrim now actually shows up in my cp, whereas before the only executable I could find was the launcher.
Nvidia also states a performance gain with the new beta driver, can't confirm it, but at least I did not have a perfromance drop with the added ambient occlusion which I guess adds up to a net performance gain.
The Nvidia website also has an article on tweaks to make the game look better available.