Skyrim Issues? Duh, of course, but has the smoking gun finally been found?

[SvennoJ]

chocoloco said:

SvennoJ said:
Patch 1.02 solves the lag but at great cost. Lighting and draw distance have taken a big hit and water now looks like a joke seen from a distance.
All they needed to do was clean up the mess, remove the old corpses and don't remember every little thing you misplaced or knocked over. Instead the graphics settings have been pared back by a lot.
Don't install this patch until you can't stand the lag anymore...

After looking at the sky when it look like the aurora borealis I agree with you 100%. The definantly made the graphics worse to get a better framerate. Not very happy that they cannot make the game on par with the 360, but still it is a great game.

The lag isn't gone yet either, today it hit hard again. I had to escape Solitude quickly after doing an assasination assignment and it ran at 2 fps while running through town with the guards after me.

It does run better most of the time, for example the map pulls up instantly again instead of taking 3 seconds to stutter into place. The pop up and textures streaming in are a lot more visible though. After zoning into Markath from Understone keep it took almost 10 seconds before the waterfall loaded in with a weird hall of mirrors effect in place until then.

Other things I noticed is that my magic resistence seems to be less now, or maybe they hit harder. And old corpses are still there in dungeons but I can't loot them anymore. It stills says press x on a corpse but nothing happens.

Maybe I'll finish up the two guild quest lines with my high level character then delete the patch and start a new character to do the main quest. Seems restarting is the only way to get good performance.