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chocoloco on 30 November 2011
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SvennoJ said:
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.

If your talking about the wedding assasination that was the worst lag I got in the entire game. So I loaded an earlier point because I didn't want to run from the mob with all the lag and have not got back to it. Probably will just play until it is a total mess (if that happens) whether I finish the main quest or not. One thing is for sure Bethesda will lose money on downloadable content if they do not fix the problem further as I have no intention of starting over soon.

I have not noticed the game being any worse the lag is fine as I just reached 8mb, but it does seem they did not prepare this game for long term play. Which is stupid because that is one of the games greatest qualities. Hopefully by if the game becomes unplayable (if it does) I will be satisfied with my journey. If I didn't like supporting Sony I could have gone 360, but I hate to give them money as I fell they do not make enough original IPs just for their platform that I love. Might have to rethink that for the next Bethesda game, still I find it annoying.