The long-awaited Skyrim Creation Kit is out, and it’s come with the rumoured High-Resolution Texture Pack all the kids wanted! The game’s also 33% off on Steam in the US and UK at the moment, if this is what you were waiting for.
Get modding!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/07/skyrim-creation-kit-out-along-with-high-res-textures-pack/#comments
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downloading now looks like i've got a loooong night of modding ahead of me
I expect great things from this. Also Naked Ladies.
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Will certainly buy the GOTY edition for PC when its 10-15€, just like it did with Fallout 3.
Until then I can expect a good amount of quality mods.
360 version always gets the serious playthrough, PC version basically only gets some modding playtime.
Man this high-res texture pack's file size is like 70% the size of the vanilla game install.
| trasharmdsister12 said: Sorry for posting them full res. I shrunk them down to < 700 kB total though. If you want to see them at full quality, just open them up separately.
EDIT 2: Here's a before/after shot. I tried to get them close. Before After:
The JPG compression seems to kill some of the detail which makes these shots look a lot closer than they should. I have the game running and am switching back and forth between this pose and the "After" screenshot and some of the detail is missing. I'll take another shot out in a field with a lot of foliage later and upload some PNGs too. Today is the last day of my bandwidth limit so I have to be careful not to go over and get charged extra. |
Thanx for posting the comparison shots tads :)
At first glance it doesnt seem to have a major impact but looking closely at the detail reveals quite a big difference, also you said that it looks even better during gameplay ^^
Just a few questions on this: How big is the high res texture pack? And does it have a major impact on performance ?
Edit: like the way your character looks...badass 
trasharmdsister12 said:
I haven't played it much since installing but I did notice more frame dropping than before. I still get around 45-50 FPS with odd hitches (where I used to get 48-60), but that might be because of my aging storage - a 7 year old 250 GB hard drive. Also, Nvidia has been having a poor streak with drivers. They've been pretty inconsistent with release times (there haven't been new official drivers since late October) and they've only released one beta set of drivers that has looked into improving Skyrim performance (the latest beta drivers didn't address this any further so I'm stuck with somewhat jittery foliage). I plan on turning off 4x AA and applying FXAA though as I used to get 60 FPS just about always without a huge drop in image quality (and with the higher res textures things might look crisper anyways). As for my character, I'm kind of disappointed with how he looks. All of stuff he's wearing is more out of necessity than trying to make him look cool. The gauntlets do 35% extra bow damage, morokei is a must if you plan on doing magic stuff, and I wear the thieves guild outfit for the increase carrying capacity. Once I get my enchantment and smithing skills up in the 80's or whatever I'll craft my own outfits to get some of these benefits in cooler looking outfits. |
Hmm i really need to sort out my pc and get it up to scratch again for some gaming on it. Been having overheating issues while doing intense gaming, so im mostly playing on my ps3 now. Dissapointing to hear that about Nvidia and their drivers...they tend to make a big difference.
Be sure to post pics of your character once you having him looking even more cool!
To be honest I don't know if that texture pack is such a big deal. There should be (haven't checked yet) texture packs with insane resolutions on skyrimnexus.
I remember my Fallout 3 crashed a lot of times because I used 8k textures all of the place. My PC could handle it, but the game simply couldn't. Especially if you modded the ini file for viewing distance.
The high res texture pack is 3GB...not bad. So shouldn't be too much trouble for bandwidth strapped users, and shoudnt take to long for slow connections (like mine) to DL.
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