So I am playing on a 3 monitor set up, and I have relied on Hayden's solution on the widescreen gaming forum in order to help make the menus actually accessible in this game when using eyefinity.. This was broken by 1.2 ... so I now am unable to play with my 3 screens (the resolution in eyefinity breaks the menus in skyrim if you aren't aware) .... I was like "fine.... that is only one whole graphics card (300$) and 2 monitors (600$) I can't use... whatevs, almost a grand worth of stuff I can't use thanks to this patch.. but I was willing to wade through it. So I start my 4gb skyrim patch on my now 1 monitor... and sweet... it doesn't work... so I was like "okay, I only have to revert back to complete vanilla, wasting all my time I have put into tweaking thus far in order to run skyrim at below 2gb, no big deal" .... So then I reset everything to vanilla, after spending an hour to find the vanilla files online.. and then my saves won't load because my ugrid is not below what I had previously set..

So then I begin a search on how to fix this, and I find some console commands that allows me to fix it..

But now it works! and looks like complete crap! I played until 2 am last night, and everything worked great! I wake up 8 hours later, and over 900 dollars of equipment disabled and 5+ hours of tweaking thrown away, and the game looks terrible! Fantastic!

Great job bethesda, why can't you just include in one of your patches, a 4gb address awareness? You know... care about something other than your profit margin by svcking off Steam and trying to tie your .EXE so closely to valve's butthole that you two wipe each others buttox.... ALL at the expense of the players who do not conform to '1 monitor, 1 graphics card, 1 purpose in life' way of life?

Where once I had faith, I have lost all.....

Why would you need more than that on a single PC?

because I have a three monitor setup, and would like to take advantage of that. Same reason anyone would like a screen any bigger than a 24 inch, its nice to look at

Poor Mother Nature, having to cope with all that extra CO2 while you enjoy yourself more. In all seriousness though, I feel for you,2gb max RAM is just awful, I've got 16gigs of the stuff and it's being limited.

I admit the OP's post made me lol.

I feel for you though. If the patch broke my game with that setup I'd be mad as well.

Luckily for me I turned off automatic updating for skyrim once I saw people were having issues.

Honestly Bethesda makes great games but their coding svckS. All their games are buggy as all hell. Makes me wonder if they even have a QA department.

I was there in the Bethesda offices when we hatched our plan to wreck your skyrim experience with the new patch. You are right, there is a coordinated conspiracy to purposefully, willfully, and malicously disable your equipment from fully functioning with skyrim. And yes, time, effort, and a good sum of money was deliberatley spent to be sure we could unwind hours upon hours of time you took to tweak your ini settings. Yes, yes it's all true.

Seriously, I can understand your frustration. But this is an example of why Bethesda has lost its love for the PC. First Bethesda has to deal with litterally thousands of PC configurations. Add to that psychotic tantrums of PC players who insist they are purposefully being abused... I'm surprised Bethesda still even supports the platform.

I never said it was purposefully, you obviously have never taken a class in "logic" and understand how to read nor interpret the English language.. which I don't blame you... Because by the sound of it, I doubt you would pass the class. Secondly, I am surprised that you are so derogatory when it comes to the pc, when that is obviously the platform of technology you are using to post your snide and infantile remarks. Thirdly, I am astounded by the fact that you fail to realize that some of the earliest games were for pc, including the first 2 elder scrolls! Of course, you probably weren't aware of that... Mostly due to your subjective and limited narrow view of reality and your shallow understanding of the universe that you have selfishly come to call your life.

Ouch. Now that just hurts.

Honestly, I wasn't personally attacking you. My post was written like a 'roast.' I'm actually on your side and feel bad that your equipment isn't working right. But honestly, your post comes off a little psychotic. There are at least over a million copies of Skyrim out there right now being played by players. A lot of them on PCs. And all those PCs are different from each other. You're just gonna have to give things more time.

And I am a PC player. I've been playing PCs since the very beginning actually. I'm a lot older than you think. Here's a little tip I can give you. When it comes to AAA titles in a genre you really enjoy, put off buying the game for a few months, until things get patched out. Then buy the game. Will save you a lot of frustration and put years back into your life.

Shouldn't have spent so much money on a single game.

I apologize for coming off so harshly.. I am sorry for being this way... I am so extremely frustrated because today is my day off and I was looking forward to this.... and it is all ruined.. again, I am sorry dude.. I realize it is not your fault, I am just defensive...

I understand - have experienced the same thing numerous times and it can be a real let down. In the end, I do believe the game will be patched in a way where all your equipment will work (and naturally, this will happen on a day when you have to work overtime). It's just gonna take time. It isn't fair (because in a fair universe a product wouldn't be released until it works properly for everyone), but this is how the world works at least for now.

LOL I somehow doubt he bought all those monitors and cards just for Skyrim.

So wait...

You are playing with a setup that isn't supported.
You install a 3rd party app that isn't supported.
You manually tweak things in the .ini files that aren't supported.

It stops working.

You blame the developer?

Really?

REALLY!?!?

This.

Won't Bethesda please think of the children?

I would not be running 3rd party "patches" if it wasn't broken to begin with. Such as 2gb allocation on a 2011 game where a computer at walmart is stock 4gb? Or a widescreen patch where the game was touted with eyefinity comparability but the menus are broken? Or ini tweaks such as shadows on trees and grass where they should already be there? These are patches on a broken system, not additions to a working one. If it worked, I would not be complaining

HEY LETS ALL DEFEND BETHESDA

I feel for you...had no issues with the patch but now I have to reconfigure everything because I'm trying to get the arrow keys in the menus to work...and that's already some time I should've spent playing.

Maybe if Bethesda' betatestes philosophy was that (letting players only worry about playing the game), things would be different. But honestly...with bugs like menus closing themselves when using the mouse, or the main quest itself flawed because you must uncompress Esbern's dialogue in order for it to work properly...I honestly don't know which philosophy do the betatesters follow.

This, definitely this! ^

I would love to hear more constructive critiques/solutions rather than the screeching white-noise of nerd-raging...I'm no fan-boy, but endless rage gets old quick.

LOL! Brilliant post my friend! Logic>NerdRage every, single, time!

If you are having specific issues with the 1.2 patch for PC, use the existing discussion topic: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1298554-patch-12-unofficial-thread-3/

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