A question for people planning on playing Skyrim on PC : V

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:12 pm

PURELY HYPOTHETICAL

A lot of people seem to like mods a lot, so it got me wondering: would you get Skyrim if you couldn't have mods?

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:59 pm

Higher settings still! :biggrin:

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:17 am

PURELY HYPOTHETICAL

A lot of people seem to like mods a lot, so it got me wondering: would you get Skyrim if you couldn't have mods?

I would still get it

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:32 pm

Yes, but I'd be really disappointed.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:16 pm

Yes, but I'd be really disappointed.

This is the answer I expected from most.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:13 am

Yeah, it will still look better at 1920x1080. Keyboard/mouse is a big plus. Faster loading times, higher FPS. (No loading times if installed to a RAMdisk, which I intend to do)

My 360 is just used as a small media client really.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 10:31 am

Yeah. I still prefer playing 1st person games with a mouse and keyboard.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:30 pm

No. If Skyrim didn't support mods, i'd refuse to buy the game out of principle.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:09 pm

Yes. I do pretty much all my gaming on the PC, even though I am not interested in mods for some of the games I have.
I do totally LOVE mods in the Elder Scrolls series, and I would be disappointed if we couldn't mod the game (not that that's going to happen!) but that just isn't an issue that decides what version I am getting when I purchase a game.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:44 pm

(No loading times if installed to a RAMdisk, which I intend to do)

What exactly does that mean?

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:41 am

Yes. For a very obvious reason: that's my only option.
But even if I did have a console I'd still play it on the PC because I'm a lot more comfortable with a mouse and keyboard.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:28 am

No. Modding is a big part of the series and without it, I wouldn't buy the game.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:00 am

What exactly does that mean?

Install the game to a portion of RAM. (A ton of RAM is needed, atleast enough to fit the game) Loading times on standard HDDs are within 80MB-150MB. SSDs are 130MB/s to 400MB/s usually. RAM can load at upwards of 3GB-5GB/s. http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq102/Starforce9/Storagecomparison.jpg That was between a 60GB SSD, a WD Caviar Green 2TB, a 10,000RPM Velociraptor and a 1GB DDR2 Ramdisk.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:33 am

Yes.. it runs and looks better. Consoles have much cheaper hardware than a respectable PC

edit: although I have both

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:39 pm

Install the game to a portion of RAM. (A ton of RAM is needed, atleast enough to fit the game) Loading times on standard HDDs are within 80MB-150MB. SSDs are 130MB/s to 400MB/s usually. RAM can load at upwards of 3GB-5GB/s. http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq102/Starforce9/Storagecomparison.jpg That was between a 60GB SSD, a WD Caviar Green 2TB, a 10,000RPM Velociraptor and a 1GB DDR2 Ramdisk.

...wow.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:52 am

ya I will get wouldn't play it as long as any other previous title though..

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:56 pm

If that happened I'd get the game on the PS3 instead of the PC. It would disappoint me a ton but not to the point of not getting it.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:38 am

Sadly I don't have a "respectable" pc anymore so I'm stuck with the console version. But all single player PC games should support mods. I'm happy that Bethesda has taken it a step further with the creation kit.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:04 am

I would still buy skyrim if there was no mods, in a heart beat.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:46 pm

If that happened I'd get the game on the PS3 instead of the PC. It would disappoint me a ton but not to the point of not getting it.

This actually now that I think about it mainly due to the PC UI being horrid I couldn't really stand playing 50 hours of the game without a controller although I do have a 360 controller I can use and most likely supported

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:52 pm

First time I saw OB was my nephew showing it to me on the 360. I never gave it a second thought till I found out about the PC mod community and mods that addressed the issues that prevented my from looking deeper into the game, so I certainly would never have played OB if not for mods.

Skyrim looks to be addressing many of the issues I had with vanilla OB so hard to say.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:31 am

...wow.

Yes, the only downside is that since RAM is volatile it will dump all of the data in the RAMdisk when power is lost or the PC is shutdown. Luckily the program I use has a "Save RAMdisk Image" feature.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:37 am

Yes, the only downside is that since RAM is volatile it will dump all of the data in the RAMdisk when power is lost or the PC is shutdown. Luckily the program I use has a "Save RAMdisk Image" feature.

I know it's slightly off topic, but what program do you use? I tried one a long time ago but it was limited to like 100MB.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:26 am

I would still buy skyrim if there was no mods, in a heart beat.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:04 am

I know it's slightly off topic, but what program do you use? I tried one a long time ago but it was limited to like 100MB.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk
Up to 4GB is free, more cost $15....I picked up the full version.

I hope this doesnt count as advertising.