I've been playing Skyrim almost since the day it came out, but on Monday my cantankerous underpowered graphics card went to that great bitdump inthe sky and I was forced under duress to replace it with a much better one. And it's almost like a whole new game! I'm really looking forward to seeing a dragon as something besides a grey lump when I'm fighting it....

Try installing an ENB. Boom, an even newer game.

Ha. This takes me back. I had been playing Oblivion on low graphics for a long time and then finally built a decent computer and I was all "Holy crap, I had no idea that stuff looked so nice!" and then went on to pile on mods. Heh.

I had a standard old tv (the round ones), I soon got an decent HDTV and man. I was amazed at the difference.

Hah! Yeah, my Vaio laptop with a 425T graphics card looked horrible but I played it for a year + anyway. Then about a month ago I deleted all the mods and the game itself, reloaded, got BOSS and mod manager, downloaded about 50 mods from Zemalf's blog then ran them again using mod manager then thru BOSS. Amazing...like an entirely new game. I'd tried to load them all myself before but clearly didn't know what I was doing.

One just has to play this game with decent graphics power, its a necessary way for proper immersion. That IS a big part of the skyrim experience..

A little off topic, and then there's the sound quality... togeather you need them to step into this game world sucessfully imo..

LOL! Back in 2007 I started playing Lord of the Rings Online on launch day. I had 1 gig of ram and a 128mb video card. The water was a white plain sheet and the fields were just a plain green surface. I finally got a good gaming rig and it was like I was playing a brand new game!

This time with Skyrim, I bought it for the 360 and waited a year and saved up for a really good comp that could play it on max. I played vanilla for a while until I started checking out Nexus and wow, what a difference with mods, like pure waters and there is another that adds flora to all the towns.

Oh, and that climate mod that everyone talks about. Wow!

I recently deleted everything off my 360 and then reloaded Skyrim and started up a new character, it did make a very big difference.