Comments on: The Elder Scrolls 6 or Skyrim 2: Improving Loading Times

By: zanmaru

zanmaru — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:20:00 +0000

In reply to Ainar. I'd argue that the vast majority of the bugs in your typical Betheseda game are reproducible regardless of specs. Remember the Shivering Isles item ID bug? That wasn't a spec problem, that was just shoddy programming.

By: A guy

A guy — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:29:00 +0000

In reply to Rod Buchanan. I'm a part of the PC community, but don't make us all look spoiled please.

By: A guy

A guy — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:28:00 +0000

For the love of christ. STOP. SAYING. SKYRIM. 2.

By: Jeff, CO

Jeff, CO — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:04:00 +0000

In reply to Ainar. TES6OS2: ILT is gonna be so awesome!

By: Derick

Derick — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:37:00 +0000

In reply to Rod Buchanan. It doesn't even need to be a high end PC. PS3 has to deal with decrypting the content from the hard drive, which causes most of the delay.

By: Ainar

Ainar — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:05:00 +0000

In reply to Bradford Hart. It's the PBR, it doesn't behave like your typical texturing. Doesn't seem to need as much vram but is a b**ch for CPUs and GPUs. Just be glad you don't have an i5 as the game probably utilizes all available cores and then some.

By: Ainar

Ainar — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:01:00 +0000

In reply to zanmaru. They actually do quite an extensive QA for every game. It's just that their engines have to do so much and are so complex that they behave wildly different on different specs and Beth would have to hold open betas for their games to catch all the bugs before release. They instead opt for paid betas post release :)

By: Bradford Hart

Bradford Hart — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:00:00 +0000

I have an older sandy bridge i7 but I have a Samsung 850 Pro SSD. My load times in skyrim were so fast I can barely read the load screens. Fallout 4 on the other hand is surprisingly slow, I expected a newer game to stream in the textures as the player explores, but it seems to be a limitation of the game engine.

By: Plaidballoon

Plaidballoon — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:35:00 +0000

Lol “Skyrim 2″… That’s the best way to tell your readers “I have no idea what I’m talking about”

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:13:00 +0000

Cutscenes, make the narrative feel like it’s an integral part of the game, more sophisticated combat, different styles of items instead of having everything identical.