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Oh man.

Let me put into guitar terms.

You are a savant. Your expertise is incredible. You are master class. You're playing a Rogue guitar with high action into a peavey rage. You deserve better.

Upgrade. Sell some shit. You don't need a monster gaming rig, but you need something better than what you have.

10FPS is not playable. 26 solid is minimum. Minimum. That's about where the console game is, in medium.
 
Grave Bomber said:
Oh man.

Let me put into guitar terms.

You are a savant. Your expertise is incredible. You are master class. You're playing a Rogue guitar with high action into a peavey rage. You deserve better.

Upgrade. Sell some shit. You don't need a monster gaming rig, but you need something better than what you have.

10FPS is not playable. 26 solid is minimum. Minimum. That's about where the console game is, in medium.
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:grin:

Thanks man. I know. It's killing me, but I've gotta make do for the time being. As soon as my $$$ situation improves, I'm gonna upgrade.
 
Keep in mind, too...my frame of reference is all skewed anyway.

Way back when, I remember playing a game on Playstation 1 called "King's Field" (which might be similar to a proto-Morrowind type game), and it moved as slow as shit. Moving to the right felt like you were moving in molasses. Funny enough...after about an hour, it stopped bothering me.
 
Indoors (inside Lakeview Manor): between 20-25.

Outdoors: 8-14. :cry:

I'm also probably not helping things, either...I'm running the HD Packs that Bethesda threw out there for free, and I'm still running the game on High settings...with Anti-Aliasing. I'm a sucker for good graphics, what can I say?
 
I appreciate stellar graphics too, trust me, but those fps are unacceptable. Set it to medium, shadows low, draw distance/grass fade low, AA off, you'll have a better experience and not be all that far off from consoles. Give it a shot at least.

And yeah, I remember kings field. That was from the same guys who made demon/dark souls, it shows in the gameplay. And that's the first game I thought of when I got to blighttown and saw the FPS slow.
:wink:
 
Grave Bomber said:
I appreciate stellar graphics too, trust me, but those fps are unacceptable. Set it to medium, shadows low, draw distance/grass fade low, AA off, you'll have a better experience and not be all that far off from consoles. Give it a shot at least.

And yeah, I remember kings field. That was from the same guys who made demon/dark souls, it shows in the gameplay. And that's the first game I thought of when I got to blighttown and saw the FPS slow.
:wink:
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Yeah, I'm gonna have to do that on the next play-through. It just kills me to lose all of those beautiful......graphics. :)

HUGE Geek High-Five for remembering King's Field, btw! I thought I had the only copy ever released in the US until now! :thu: Good to see someone else actually played it!
 
MojoFilter said:
Steam keeps a running tally. I'm not going to share what mine is. I'll only say that I was home-bound with an illness for the better part of a year.
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Well, I took a break and spent four months on playing the Mass Effect Trilogy. If I hadn't done that it would be WAY higher.
 
26.25 DAYS. That's a month of my life, over the past 8 or so. Taking out the time I'd be sleeping, it's a lot more than that. That's absolutely shocking to me. No wonder my wife hates this game. :)
 
Guitar Heel said:
26.25 DAYS. That's a month of my life, over the past 8 or so. Taking out the time I'd be sleeping, it's a lot more than that. That's absolutely shocking to me. No wonder my wife hates this game. :)
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I remember watching a video review from Adam Sessler (used to be on G4), saying in effect: Be careful with this game. It can make 14 hours pass by in the blink of an eye.

Absolutely 100% right.
 
I'm creeping up on a thousand hours since launch. I took a 6 month break last year but since Christmas I've been going at it pretty hard again.

I miss Adam Sessler.

Sent from The Nether
 
Great news for us all:

Patch 1.9 is out on PC, and coming out on consoles very soon; it fixes a shit-ton of game bugs (some really egregious ones that some of you have encountered on your consoles), and introduces a new difficulty mode: Legendary.

The way it works is this: if you switch to Legendary, not only does the difficulty modifier increase (you do 25% damage and enemies do 200% damage compared to normal "Adept" level, or whatever it is), but you can now take a skill that you've reached 100 in, and bring it down to 15 again: it will also return your perks to you, in the process, which can be re-invested.

Doing this removes the "Level 81" level cap completely. I haven't yet played with it, but if you receive additional perks for levelling up the same skill a second time, in theory it will now be possible to legitimately get EVERY PERK IN THE FRIGGIN' GAME. I'm not sure this is the case yet, but I plan on finding out.

So, for example: Let's say that my Smithing is 100, and I have every perk on that tree, and I engage "Legendary" mode, which now brings my Smithing back to 15. All of the perks are returned to me, I can re-invest them (just like at the end of "Dragonborn", but without having to have the Dragonborn DLC installed)...and I can start levelling back up towards 100 again.

IF the system gives you more perks for hitting Level 82, 83, etc...you've now made it possible to fill up every single tree. Without hacks or mods...just additional time spent in gameplay.

Like I said...I haven't confirmed that additional Perk Points are dispensed when you hit Level 82 and above, but if they are, you can pretty much turn any character into a fucking beast...and because you're increasing the difficulty at the same time, it breathes a whole new life into strategy, even if your character was beastly strong before.

I might start a brand new character tonight. I was playing the re-vamped version of "Morrowind", and it's cool, but it's just not holding my interest the way that Skyrim does.
 
Sounds cool. I play Master level and have enough trouble with that. Once I hit level 60 though it all seems easy again. Legendary might be fun. Or totally piss me off.

Sent from The Nether
 
MonkeyZero said:
Sounds cool. I play Master level and have enough trouble with that. Once I hit level 60 though it all seems easy again. Legendary might be fun. Or totally piss me off.

Sent from The Nether
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Yeah, it'll change the game dynamic, no doubt. I just wonder how, since you can take any skill that you've got to 100 but don't really use, and reset it every time you get it back to 100. For some skills, like Restoration, Alteration or Conjuration, it's a piece of cake to level back quickly.
 
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