stalinx20

whiskers54
For those that are lucky to be able to play it there is a G-Sync issue that is playing havoc with FPS rates. It is being said to turn G-Sync off. Keep this in mind if you are having low FPS.

what kind of FPS are you getting while GSYNC is active? Try turning VSYNC on, see if that helps.

z999z3mystorys
Do the latest drivers (375.63 as of this post) recognize this game? I'm using an older version due to folding issues on the latest one, and was wondering if it has a profile for it. (namely SLI and if not, is there one already created I can edit in with Nvidia inspector or something? (assuming a straight copy of the SLI profile for classic skyrim doesn't work well)

Shockjockey
The game unlocked for me about 11 oclock my time. Looks more crisp but nothing to write home about. They did finally fix the blocky shadows.  Plays nice and smooth. Only using one of my cards at about 60 percent to maintain 60fps at 2560x1600 ultra settings. SLI doesn't work with latest driver. Putting it away now till they make compatible mods for it. Oh! I almost forgot the game did not install anything extra when it unlocked so the new game is actually smaller in size than the original.

whiskers54
For those that are lucky to be able to play it there is a G-Sync issue that is playing havoc with FPS rates. It is being said to turn G-Sync off. Keep this in mind if you are having low FPS.

whiskers54

stalinx20

GSYNC "works" but I get random drops in FPS every few minutes, utterly unplayable while the FPS is in the teens if not lower. Then it will come back to normal. Alt tab still bugs out and causes the monitor to black screen. The game does need a serious patch, like big time.
 
Edit: Setting the GLINK to "ULMB" stopped the drop in FPS. also set vsync to adaptive.

I'm all over the place in FPS and that is just the opening scenes at my execution. I couldn't take it anymore and shut it down. You're right about the patch. I'll wait and see if they do it before I continue.

Shockjockey
The more I play this the more I am disappointed. The graphic quality is very bad. Guess I am used to the newer games like the Witcher.
 
 

gutcheck
I never played Skyrim.... is it really this awesome?

• Huge area to explore.  You can literally spend hundreds of hours exploring the map and still end up not finding or seeing everything.
• Tens of thousands of available mods.  As of today there are nearly 50,000 mods available for this game.
• Intriguing and impressive amount of history to be found and learned about.  See below about story line.

• Dated graphics.  As previously mentioned, this game was released in 2011 and the graphics reflect that.  Though this can be corrected to some varying degrees with mods.
• Mediocre story line.  If your looking for a revolutionary story line, you won't find it here.  
• Everything that was fixed in vanilla Skyrim seems have been broken again in the special edition.   

stalinx20
If only Bethesda would use CD Project as their lead example....

stalinx20

fearpoint
The graphics looks the same because all they did was increase the texture resolution from 720p(if you used the HD texture DLC) to 1080p. They made shadowing slightly better as well. That's it visually.
 
 Compared to modern games like Witcher 3 which use tons of post processing effects, Skyrim is going to look poor.

Yep, exactly that. In order for them to make Skyrim "look good" (which is what you all were expecting), it would require a whole new do-over with textures, movements, visuals, etc., basically a whole new game. Then, at that point, they might as well call it Elder Scrolls 6.

stalinx20
 
There is a dilemma though that Bethesda added which I find completely stupid. If you activate mods on the SE edition, then you cannot get any achievements. If you don't care about the achievements, then go ahead, turn on every mood that you can.