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jkipp82
11-12-2011, 12:09 AM
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Poor vision and awareness may afflict some of Skyrim's population (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/11/wanted-buckets-accomplices-to-theft-and-murder-in-skyrim/), but your bellowing, dragonborn protagonist is meant to have 20/20 vision.
Blurry textures on the Xbox 360 version, which aren't replaced with higher-quality versions as they come into closer view, may be a symptom of having the mammoth RPG* installed on the hard drive, Bethesda now (http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/134355367491665920) suspects.

"Skyrim uses a lot of dynamic streaming systems, including textures," says a Bethesda community manager posting on the official forums. "We've seen a few reports of certain textures temporarily scaling down on the Xbox 360, and not scaling back up. We have verified that this issue does not occur when playing off the disk and when the game is fully cached (not installed)." For now, it seems the streaming glitch can be avoided if you play directly from the disc, and imagine the loud whirring emanates from Dovahkiin's vocal chords warming up.

According to Bethesda, a solution is being prepared for installed Skyrim in the next title update. The patch notes for the most recent update are available here (http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1255755-update-11-for-skyrim/).

* Sorry, we just wanted to share that we've been thinking about turn-based tusk battles between customizable mammoths all afternoon.

CloudStrife7x
11-12-2011, 01:22 AM
that why im enjoying the pc version until another title update is released for the 360 version, nice share jkipp :)

BrayWyatt
11-12-2011, 01:30 AM
there is alot of people over at the elder scrolls forum complaining about this same issue.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/jasonvoorhees987/DSC00011.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/jasonvoorhees987/DSC00013.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/jasonvoorhees987/DSC00012.jpg

Swiftus
11-12-2011, 03:09 AM
I have seen some awful textures in the mountains (exploring found these) but it won't spoil what is a fantastic game

BrayWyatt
11-12-2011, 03:15 AM
same here...

Serious_M
11-12-2011, 09:09 AM
there is alot of people over at the elder scrolls forum complaining about this same issue.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/jasonvoorhees987/DSC00011.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/jasonvoorhees987/DSC00013.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/jasonvoorhees987/DSC00012.jpg
It looks awful indeed hope they wil fix it soon

Ravanofdarkness
11-12-2011, 03:57 PM
I'm Personallly really looking forward to the next Title Update for Skyrim to fix these Issues.

Here's some more Examples:

Installed onto a HDD.
http://i42.tinypic.com/118f7z8.jpg

Uninstalled onto a HDD.
http://i44.tinypic.com/1zwe0kz.jpg

jkipp82
11-12-2011, 08:05 PM
i would highly recommend the pc version over ps3 or 360 for the mod community. yeah bethesada did mention something about allowing mods on the other versions but we all know with no news comes well its at all happening.

ilove360
11-13-2011, 02:34 AM
That is totally normal. It has happened since oblivion, and even fallout had these problems. I really don't know how the pc version is, but i think these issues may be smaller in the pc?

jkipp82
11-13-2011, 03:04 AM
the pc version is flawless graphics wise if you have a powerful enough graphics card and there even texture mods out already if you arent happy enough. even on medium it looks great. im having more fun with this then i ever did with fallout 3 fnv or oblivion.

Monitor5150
11-13-2011, 05:38 AM
I am just waiting until a new patch is released from Bethesda until I install to the hard drive....It may be loud, but load times are not that severe and I see no low rez textures...all in all I'm happy with the game so far.