Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Unconfirmed confirmed bug?
So apparently there's a 'confirmed' bug (as well as possibly a confirmed patch on release day) that has to do with the textures and rendering in the game. So, the story is that, if you install Skyrim on your HDD (xbox360) rather than play it off the disk the textures will be noticeably... Worse. But you still get the benefits of faster loading and such. This has a lot of people confused. Many thinking the same thing: "Isn't it the other way around?" The answer is no. As the story goes, it is when the game is installed on the HDD and not off the disk. This creates a pretty largescale problem among Xbox players (such as myself). On one hand, you get faster loading and rendering and better fps, while sacrificing the hi-res textures. On the other hand you get slower load times, possibly some spots of bad fps and a damn loud whirring sound but with better textures and graphics. There is hope, however. Rumor has it there is a day 1 patch starting Skyrim off as 1.1 that will supposedly fix this problem. So anyone who is getting the game on midnight, you might want to wait before installing the game onto your HDD, or if you do, prepare to uninstall and re-install it after the patch on Friday morning. To my knowledge this isn't legitimately confirmed by Bethesda and has originated on Gamefaqs forums by people with early releases (pirates? Or are they actually reviewers...? Hmm.) so don't panic right away. 2 days, 3 hours, 39 minutes and 27 seconds left.
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I've read about this already. However, I never heard of the necessity to reinstall the game after a patch, shouldn't just installing the patch while leaving the game on HDD suffice?
ReplyDeleteWell, to revisit this topic.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the first patch did not contain a fix for this problem. Also it seems like installing on a usb flash drive instead is a working work-around for the problem.
Next to that it mainly seems to affect people with the xbox-slim model. I have an older model, and I am not suffering from the texture bug as it seems.
I got a new post up, giving some links about patch 1.1 and also Gstaff clarifying the texture problem. Hope it helps.. Still waiting on my xbox copy..
ReplyDeleteSorry about my somewhat vague previous comment, I had like 30 seconds to type. But anyway, yes it's mostly just a problem with how the new Slim caches things. If you've got an old version (I've got an original pro) you should be fine, if not, the USB is confirmed to work as well. Also, DO NOT clear Skyrim's cache at any time (until patch 1.2) because a lot of people are being told to do that, that'll just make the textures WORSE.
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