The launch of a new game from Bethesda Softworks typically means a period where the kinks (the ones that Bethesda can reasonably address, anyway) are being worked out.
Players have been reporting texture streaming issues on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for Xbox 360, resulting in some lower quality textures never being replaced by their better looking counterparts.
What are people talking about? This.
Bethesda admits it's a problem, specifically as it relates to the Xbox 360 version being installed.
“We’ve seen a few reports of certain textures temporarily scaling down on the Xbox 360, and not scaling back up,” said the studio on its forums. “We have verified that this issue does not occur when playing off the disk and when the game is fully cached (not installed). Skyrim makes heavy use of the Xbox 360 caching system, and caches over the normal course of play while in menus or interiors. This cache can be wiped when other games are played or when the user manually removes it.”
Of course, not installing the game means you’ll have to deal with longer load times, so there’s a decision in front of potential Skyrim players staring at their Xbox 360 discs after work today.
Bethesda said a title update is in the works to address this issue, but there’s not timeframe for it yet.
Damn Shoemaker. Posting doubting tweets on Twitter, fueling my doubt. However, as old as my 360 is (late 06, early 07) I prefer my Skyrim installed. The loading times quadrupled when it wasn't installed and crashed a couple of times every hour. I'll stick with lower res textures and a playable game until Bethesda fixes things.
Skyrim is still, all things considered, my game of the year. My muse, my lover, my Achille's heal. Bethesda, I am truly your bitch now --if I wasn't already before, with Oblivion and Fallout 3.
Edit: But it did mean I got my first comment on a GB post. So, yay Bethesda!
Those of you that have it for the Thrixty, how bad are the uninstalled load times?
Hmm, so what does it mean if I'm having similar issues without having installed the game?
Thanks Bethesda. Now what about the butt-load of issues the PC version is having?
360 and PC are covered, what kind of PS3 issues are we seeing?
Why not just refuse to install it? I've never really had problems with load times in noninstalled games (I refuse to count Duke Nukem Forever simply because the problem seems to be with the game itself).
What a mess.
If you give a shit about this:
1. You are an idiot.
2. You should have bought the PC version.
@Rattle618 said:
3. You're a 12 year old. You, specifically.
Well that's a fuck up. Also, how about all those people in forums saying there's no way Skyrim is only 3.8 GB.
@Rattle618 said:
Wait so people are idiots because they bought the 360 version and want it to look good? Or are they just idiots because you couldn't think of something smart to say?
@bonorbitz: What PC issues? Crossfire/SLI scaling is pretty bad, but that will be fixed on the driver end. Aside from menu scaling in eyefinity (fixable using memory hacks found on the WSGF for now) I haven't run into any issues (~6-hours in).
Looks like I will have to suffer through longer load times and loud disc spinning for a while.
@Rattle618: No sir, YOU are an idiot.
PC VERSION....
If you have a fast external drive you could install it to that. Because the game will be loading from and caching to different places this shouldn't be an issue.
Anybody have an estimate on the load time improvements? Fallout 3 and Oblivion were AWFUL if you didn't install them, almost unplayable. How does this roll? Just trying to make a decision here. :P
@Sn1PeR said:
People are reporting numerous issues with the sound being extremely faint, there are weird rubber banding artifacts occurring, GTX 580 usages aren't being fully utilized on i7 systems, extremely low FPS on higher end systems, mouse issues that need to be fixed by tweaking the ini file, low rez texture problems similar to the 360s, and the Steam service is overloaded when trying to install from the retail DVD (that's a Steam issue)...
@ZeForgotten said:
Both!