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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45820

This mod simply overhauls Skyrim\'s visual and graphics with a reasonable performance loss.

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Csimbi · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:38 am Post subject:

Skyrim should not have been about the looks.

Thudo · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:01 am Post subject:

Uhmm where have you been for oh.. a decade? The entire game industry like, courting the opposite sex, is ALL about image and attraction. Thats what generally interests you to play the game or date that hot sex. Superficial? Absolutely! Is it natural? Fcuking Y-E-S!

The game industry for a long time has always been about the bling and blang.. substance? Bahah.. yeah hardly.. those days where dev did ALOT with SO MUCH LESS are long gone. Now they have WAYY too much bloat and tools and actually do less but use the proverbial "golden shovel" and pile on the freshly-scented turd into one heck of a gorgeous looking poo mountain! Very Happy

Is it wrong to like what you see rather than more respect whats really under the hood? Nah.. its human.. we're inherently pathetic and debased so we gravitate to games that look amazing then rather quickly peel-away the superficial to reveal the steaming turd it was. Of course, some games are gems but man thats a rare find these days. Mad

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

screw the looks if they put your FPS to a crawl. Let's face it, ENB makes it look a bit better in some segments, and worse in some others but it halves the FPS in all. 1920x1080, 2xAA, ENB mod, gtx 670 and i5 avg fps ~30. It's a joke, bad code from the start to work with, than you add badly coded ENB on top of that, put it on your 300$ GPU and cry...

Thudo · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:33 am Post subject:

Pah.. get a better system cheapskate! Razz

Unlike a console you can re-invest in the PC into actually making you coin like I do being incorporated Wink

th4t1guy · Senior Member Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 280

A mod that adds color to a game that's essentially black and white halves the FPS?

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Thudo · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:16 pm Post subject:

Probably better in the long run to get a lower GPU but SLI/Crossfire em. Keep costs slightly above/below but have the advantage of performance. If it were the rational of the console where you can only do certain things then sure upgrade is not viable BUT since PCs do wayyy more than just gaming.. Wink

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Thudo · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:34 pm Post subject:

I haven't seen benchmarks done in common games that would state otherwise. I'm still debating on whether to go dual card or a 690GTX (my treat of course). Cash to burn perhaps but hey.. I'm a corporation Smile

It pays to be at tax time. Very Happy

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Thudo · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:40 pm Post subject:

Most games are built regrettably for console specs Neutral

We need devs that can take more risks like they used to a decade ago but fear those days are long gone. All we got now are pretty McGames..

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Sabot · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:43 pm Post subject:

I've never owned a pc game in 20 years that utilised the FULL horsepower of my graphics card, before the next graphics card came out that did blah,blah....fps,triangulations,polygons.... Utter bloat. That's the idea of owning a pc or custom building one. The next game will supercede your beloved graphics card/CPU combo. It's a hardware driven exploit. Your perfectly good gpu and CPU will never be used to its full due to bad coding and poor optimisation. You will continue to chuck in the next card and CPU to eek out a dozen more fps.
Why do you think they throw in an optimised game with your new gpu? It's to suck you in and believe you own a $hit hot card, till 3 new games down the line and it ain't as appealing as it was...
Consoles as an excuse is a load of shit..
SDK kits are out there for each platform. It's just that coders today can't write a pc game if their life depended on it! They cut their teeth on consoles and no longer dedicate to the pc. Money is to be made on mulitplatform, that is life and what funds their business.