 TigerLordResident pentaxianPremium,Mod join:2002-06-09 Canada kudos:6 Reviews:
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Re: [Skyrim] Modded Skyrim looks amazing said by kcrupp:I have absolutely everything maxed. 1900 x 1080. There is nothing else I can turn up. I am maxing out at 60 FPS - my monitors refresh rate. Try adding new mods until you hit your minimal FPS limit. I truly mean it when I say it has changed the game for me. I feel like I walk in a dream.
As you can see from my screenshots, I was just shocked to see how different vanilla skyrim on ultra can look compared to what you can do with all these textures and mods. |
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4 edits | reply to TigerLord Here's a dragon, but there's no ENB enabled here.

And this is all the bells and whistle with grass mods:
 Edit 2/13/13: I get playable FPS (30+ FPS) with a GTX680 4GB SLI + OC'd 3770K at 2560x1600 but to get photorealistic pics like this you NEED an ENB (Opethfeld in this case) but it adds all sorts of contrast issues, bloom, vignetting and other stuff I don't need or want. The different ENB are just different config files using the ENB designed by Boris the Russian, so you can tweak it to your heart's desire, but it's a lot of hassle. I now only play with the mods without any ENB. The screenshot above this one was taken without any ENB. |
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 | reply to TigerLord Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Thanks for the pics. I was hoping to get back on GW2 this weekend, but I might just have to take an arrow to the knee again. -- Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
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| reply to TigerLord Weird timing for this topic, as last night was the first time since last April I fired up Skyrim. I almost started a new game, looked at the clock, and decided to sleep instead. I have a hi-def texture pak that I cannot use due to performance, and another mod that allows me to own goldenglow estate. Your screenies look beautiful! -- ~ Project Hope ~ |
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 | reply to TigerLord Thanks for listing out your mods Tiger, I appreciate it. I've been having a hankering to get back to Skyrim after a year or so now. WoW is back to becoming a grind and I just loved the hell out of Skyrim. I haven't checked out any of the DLC and think it's time to do so.
It's been so long I have forgotten. If I start a new character, do I wipe my existing guy?
Oh, and getting your mods on Steam Workshop really is very easy and does a good job keeping them updated. I've been very impressed with it, regardless of the whole controversy behind it. |
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 I AMPremium join:2010-04-11 Ephrata, PA kudos:4 | Now if ESO online would only let us mod (I know it can't!). |
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 | reply to TigerLord If they turn ESO into an abortion and give this series a bad name, I'm going to be royally pissed. |
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| said by Dissembled:If they turn ESO into an abortion and give this series a bad name, I'm going to be royally pissed. Bethesda is the only AAA developer to have never disappointed me in any major way in the past few years. I enjoyed Fallout 3, Las Vegas and Oblivion quite a bit. Skyrim is a modern jewel for sure. I do hope ESO won't be awful.
Just consider this short list: THQ: gone forever Ubisoft: shitty DRM, first hours of AS3 awful, storytelling YAWN Blizzard: D3 lolol Bioware: SWTOR (biggest MMO flop of the century), Dragon Age 2 (uggh). Their last perfect game must have been KOTOR and it came out like 13 years ago.
Compare the resources these studios have with a small Polish studio like CDProjekt with 20ish employees that deliver games like The Witcher 2.
There's a reason Kickstarter is so popular: AAA studios are spending more and more money on fluff to please investors at the expense of the gamers they don't even understand. |
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 KoilPremium join:2002-09-10 Irmo, SC kudos:1 | I still haven't discounted Blizzard completely, though D3 was a big black eye for them. Prior to that, there track record was impeccable. (That is, I don't necessarily consider xpacs to WoW as being 'new' titles judged in the same light. If that were the case, they'd have a few more dotted eyes)
DA:O (as we've argued about) was pretty damn good, imo...the follow up, not so much. I think DA:O was a AAA title.
The Witcher (as we've argued) didn't really do much for me. Great story, but game play left me feeling lacking. Never played 2, though I've heard from more than those on this board that's it was better than the original.
I still have FO:NV sitting in my library. Patiently waiting for our time together. I've been playing SO many new games, I just haven't committed to it yet....but I will. FO3 was fucking unreal...Bethesda does seem to be king 'o' the mountain, afaiac. -- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.- Edward Everett Hale
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 fnord76 join:2002-05-14 Troy, IL kudos:1 | reply to TigerLord It was hard to go to FO: NV from Skyrim. I just started it up and though, god this looks bad. After spending 1 1/2 hours scouring the mod community getting tweaks and various things for it it is much improved, but definitely not Skyrim. I realize it is a year older than Skyrim, but I got spoiled playing it that nothing else visually compares. |
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Greenman Gaming has Dragonborn preorders for 4 bucks off if anyone is interested. » dealnews.com/The-Elder-Scrolls-V···903.htmlActivates on Steam You just get an email receipt for now and the key when the DLC becomes available on the 5th I got Dishonored for 15 bucks from them at Thanksgiving and several other games since. No problems. |
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 KoilPremium join:2002-09-10 Irmo, SC kudos:1 | reply to TigerLord This was on reddit: "What Skyrim looks like to PC Users"
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 GhastlyonePremium join:2009-01-07 Las Vegas, NV kudos:2 | Holy mother of god. |
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| reply to Dissembled said by Dissembled:If they turn ESO into an abortion and give this series a bad name, I'm going to be royally pissed. I am hopeful that ESO is going to be good. It is on my short list of MMOs to try. -- My domain - Nightfall.net |
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 I AMPremium join:2010-04-11 Ephrata, PA kudos:4 | reply to TigerLord But Zenimax is making ESO. |
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 ThalerPremium join:2004-02-02 Los Angeles, CA kudos:3 | reply to TigerLord These shots are beautiful, and not in the Skyrim I-modded-female-models-to-put-Barbie-proportions-to-shame way. It seems like for every genuine mod to improve the visual experience to the game, there's another that makes you just go WTF. |
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 | reply to I AM said by I AM:But Zenimax is making ESO. I was going to ask who was ACTUALLY making it because for some reason I didn't think it was Bethesda. |
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 fnord76 join:2002-05-14 Troy, IL kudos:1 | said by Dissembled:said by I AM:But Zenimax is making ESO. I was going to ask who was ACTUALLY making it because for some reason I didn't think it was Bethesda. Bethesda is part of Zenimax anyway. |
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| reply to Thaler said by Thaler:These shots are beautiful, and not in the Skyrim I-modded-female-models-to-put-Barbie-proportions-to-shame way. It seems like for every genuine mod to improve the visual experience to the game, there's another that makes you just go WTF. Where can I get this "female-models-to-put-Barbie-proportions-to-shame" mod?  |
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 | reply to fnord76 said by fnord76:said by Dissembled:said by I AM:But Zenimax is making ESO. I was going to ask who was ACTUALLY making it because for some reason I didn't think it was Bethesda. Bethesda is part of Zenimax anyway. Some Googling seems to show that Zenimax Media is the parent company of Bethesda but it's Zenimax Online Studios (another offshoot) that is making ESO. So, the two are under the same umbrella but are not the same. |
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