I got to watch the new Skyrim release, followed by the ultimate trainwreck of posts on the Steam forums regarding all of the bugs. One of many is framerate issues, I happen to be in the camp of people who for some strange reason have a 30FPS cap. I have read that on R9 290’s and 290x’s aren’t being bothered by this. Once again the majority of people who seem to be the least bothered by anything are the NVidia crowd, and even then there have been some exceptions to the rule. Mainly people on the latest series of cards are suffering while people on the previous generations are more likely to run the game decently. And even then I have spotted some people on 970’s who are also experiencing framerate issues.
Apart from my unfortunate FPS cap the game seems to be running fine. I did forget how ugly the vanilla textures are… On top of adding the new lighting and shadows to the game would it have killed them to add 4K textures? I mean don’t get me wrong, I still game at 1080p but… $40 USD for godrays, nicer shadows and 64bit support seems a tad overpriced for anyone buying the game new.
As far as modding goes I need to look more into that. Bethesda seems to really want you to join their website to use mods, although I did notice there is a new version of Nexus Mod Manager out that will support the new Skyrim. Though in all honesty I think I’ll wait for the game to mature a bit before I venture into modding. As it is my older Skyrim keeps a better framerate, plus it has some mods in it that I consider essential… Also my game is far more fabulous.
And no. I’m not comparing modded Skyrim to the new vanilla. I just wish they would have improved the texturing. The Special Edition looks like they took the free enhanced texture DLC from 2011 and called it good.