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@Wes899 said:

@SeriouslyNow said:

Nvidia = no issues and working FXAA for FREE!

ATI = driver BS which has led to some people crashing at startup or not having the game run at all.

I'm ATI and have had no problems.

Yeah I read this in another thread and it's confusing me because I've played it issue free for 14 hours. The only thing I've noticed is lower res textures on cabinets once in a while but that will easily be fixed with a patch. Other than that, smooth sailing for me.

Smokey the Bear says: Remember kids, the vast majority of issues are from not having up to date drivers. Make sure your stuff is up to date. If you have ATI/AMD, Steam can check for you and update for you. Just click on Steam in the top left corner and click update AMD video drivers and it will check for you. And remember... Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires.

@nintendoeats said:

I love that people are still confused about the whole 8800 naming/RAM/power debacle.

So...I'm going to ask a weird question. I recently replaced my 9600GT with a Radeon 6950. If I were to play Skyrim...and if it were not patched to work with ATi stuff better...would I be better off putting the 9600 back in?

I have a 6950 and have had absolutely no problems running it on ultra. I don't know what is causing people trouble, it's worked fine and smooth for me the 14 hours I've played...

I guess all I can say is try it first with the 6950? This seems odd as I have had no issues whatsoever and played it within 5 minutes of it being unlocked on Steam (thus not patched)...

I need 1-8 (why doesn't 9 work?) so keyboard and mouse. I imagine the menu system would be better with a gamepad though.

@mazik765 said:

@Hunkulese said:

You can really substitute any moba community.

Just about any online game community, really...

The Starcraft community isn't too bad if you avoid the Battlenet forums. There'll always be the tryhard types but most of the people are reasonable. I get very little trash talking in the games I play. Most players will admit that they suck and are somewhat humble. I imagine it might be many magnitudes worse in the lower leagues though.

Edit: and yes, from my limited experiences, the MOBA communities look awful. Watching streams of SC2 players playing League of Legends, you see tons of insults thrown about and no one actually knowing what they are supposed to do.

You just described every Bethesda game made in the last 5 years at least. Even a minute or two of research would have told you most of your points. Their games are janky, but once you get past that they become insanely immersive experiences where you will spend many hours playing them (For example, on Oblivion I put in over 300 hours on my first profile over a period of 6 months because I loved exploring the game world. The same will likely occur in Skyrim).  I've already played 16 hours and I've only done one main questline mission past the tutorial (I've done what I always do. Get in Thieves Guild, rob EVERYONE, and then do everything else with an insane amount of money.)  Not everyone likes TES games, they require a certain amount of patience but they are quite rewarding if you can get over the inherent issues in them. Heck, Brad's headline in his review says basically that. 
 
Has anyone else found the cannibal chef? I stole his chef hat.

I ran into him last night when I was heading to Whiterun. I tried killing him but it didn't work.  He talked about his father and father's father and then said he had nothing to say to me after I tried to kill him.

I had one runtime error that crashed the game entirely but other than that it has been smooth as silk running on ultra with 2x AA (I'm running it on a HD6950 and a Phenom II x4 965. It isn't 100% smooth all the time but I don't expect it to be on my old CPU).  The default graphics options made no sense. It set it to medium high with V-sync and 8x antialiasing. I would rather have better textures and lighting then slightly fewer jaggies.  I'm sure with some tuning I can get it to work even better. Especially once guides come out for txt file editing like in Oblivion (that made it run 100x better).

Good, it's frustrating when a guy runs up to you in broad daylight and blinds you with that.

I use Paypal for Steam purchases, but I changed my password anyway just to be safe. I have 155 games and I don't want to risk it. I have never used the Steam forum anyway.

Yeah this isn't new. Heck, the original Strike at Karkand map was this (and Wake Island and a ton of others in 1942). One team had all of the points but no set spawn and the other team had no points. You lose all the points and everyone on your team dies, you lose the game.