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Check your Oblivion options and make sure you have selected resolution 1680x1050 that usually is the setting for 22inch wide monitors. Try other resolution settings. Oblivion is an older game and does not automatically give you the right settings as skyrim does.

I'm sorry, but you gave no legitimate reason for hating Steam other than it running in the background. If a 20MB process bothers you that much, maybe you should invest in more RAM? Oh, and close Steam before shutting down your computer. Problem solved. I didn't want to bother with more explanations. I've already done that in other threads in the past. It used to be that you bought a boxed game, it had a few bugs and later patches would solve them. Nowadays patches screw up the game more than it was before the patch. You have a company that hires an online store to handle, basically online sales, but it tends to be intruisive in ways many people don't like. Skyrim, unfortunately will have to wait about a year for modders to create unofficial patches, fixes and so on for it to become anything worth playing. The sad thing is that the people who will actually do this job don't get one cent from either Beth or Steam. It should be simple for people to buy a game, install it and enjoy the game without having to disable this or that and read here and there and apply this or that, you get my drift? But anyway, I just finished uninstalling it and even that is not as easy as to just go to Control Panel and uninstall, not if you installed in C drive instead of Program Files. By the way, 20mb process is more than enough to piss anyone off. I am a 3D artist, modeler and use high end software and high end workstation that handles humongous files, models with really, really heavy polygon counts, so my system can handle ten times the amount of resources Skyrim will ever need. The forcing me to do things I, for whatever reason, don't want to do is what is wrong. I'll be the enemy of anyone who tries to impose on me about something that is my property, or at least I have a legitimate license to use. I guess I wouldn't mind if I played in a console, but not in a computer you use for many other purposes.

I played Skyrim for one week, got fed up with Steam and spent about a month roaming this forum to see if something had been done so that I wouldn't need Steam to play. I dropped by today to see if there was any news on that, since I'm getting ready to remove the game and Steam from my pc. All I see is much hope about things to come, some gamers wannabe having a great time with the game and many having crashes or trouble of some kind. Lots of things bother me about Steam, but what bothers me the most is that even when I'm playing a different game, steam will stay in the backgroung and everytime I'm about to turn off the computer there it is "waiting for background programs to close". I did every " don't mess with me steam i could", turned off online gaming, turned off automatic everything, but the freaking thing still hangs around. So, too bad for me, Steam ruined something I had waited long for. F... Steam and Bethesda. I will accept my loss for the money spent and will never again buy anything that has something to do with Steam. Adios Amigos. Enjoy your game. This is not a rant and I mean no offense to any member of this forum, that is, unless you are an employee of either Steam or Bethesda, if you are, then you really don't want to hear what i have to say.

Can someone help me with a mod that will give me lydia back as a housecarl? I had her join the Blades before finding out the blades annoyed me and i want her to not be a Blade anymore. Is there a command to remove that faction from her?

Since your connection to Steam is obvious, maybe we can have a serious conversation. I don't come here for the heck of it or to complain just because i have nothingelse to do in life and will complain about all and everything. If you've noticed I have been a member here for 3 years now and have few posts, half of them recently and on this topic. So obviously I am concerned. Companies can sometime make changes to accomodate customers desires. So i guess I'll tell you what it is that bothers me, in the hopes, you will treat me with respect and give me a decent answer as I don't come here to be insulted by anyone either (ie, don't insult my intelligence). I spend a good amount of money anually related to games at gamers gate and even facebook games, music downloads and so on. The very fact of having Steam on my face all the time is what bothers me the most. Hey, I get a huge amount of emails, even from the red box everyday advertising something which I read and I don't mind as I am in the mood to review my email then. With Steam, i feel like when you go into a store and have a sales person on your face every other second asking you if you need any help, or do you want to add this or that to your order...Look, no, I don't want any help, please, get out of my face. For example, itunes will pop up evrey now and then and make me aware that an update is available and I choose to install it or not, that doesn't bother me whatsoever. So all I ask from Steam is, I'm not playing an online game, I've registered, you know i "own" a legitimate copy of my game and you will let me know whenever an update is available. The offline option for some reason I don't like, I want to be able to press on that shorcut and go straight into the game without being reminded I am playing offline as I'm not an idiot, I know I'm playing offline. Anythingelse, such as money saving offers on new games and what so ever, email me about it, or let me be sorprise when maybe once a week I go check on my Steam account, just don't be on my face when I want nothingelse but to press that shortcut and go straight into my game. Now, is that so extraordinarily crazy thing to ask. Is that Steam hating or bashing or whatever? No, i think what i ask is reasonable and what is unreasonable is to try to force me to accept something with which i don't feel confortable enough having bought a hardcopy of the game at a store. I know many people (steam customers) enjoy all the social network features and so on, hey keep that platform for those customers, but some of us rather have something more simple so make a variation in web desing and give me the choice, for example as a Gamers Gate store, I can redownload Assasins Creed and TwoWorlds Two which I bought from them as many times as I want also, and have bought many other games from them also. I think that would work on Steams behalf not against it, but what doesn't help Steam is to go into a war of insults with potential customers just because it rathers try to force their way on people, hey, let there be only one Microsoft, please.

So, I guess I'm paranoid. Well, so what if I am. I purchased a single player game at the store and did not appreciate the Steam intrusion in my life. So my game experience was ruined and my money gone. You can like or dislike Steam, I truly don't care, but if Steam is the future for the gaming industry, then they lost at least one good customer. Enjoy your game people. I do hate Steam, I have a right to choose what is good for me and what is not.

All I know is I purchased Skyrim, went to register it and got a message from Steam stating "our forums are unavailable at this moment" our servers have been hacked and at this time we don't know what, if any, customer information has been compromised (or something of the sort) we appologize for the inconvenience. Now, if you were trying to go into your Steam account on 11/11, 11/12, or 11/13, you know what I'm saying is true. So, tell me, a company that can not keep secure it's own information is going to secure mine? I did not become a Steam customer by choice, it was imposed on me. And you think I should not be bothered by that because there's "no privacy in the internet". Look, really, I need to get out of this thread and not waste my time.

I don't hate console players. My children have consoles (both PS3 and 360) and I love my children. My wife plays out of her Smart Phone and I love my wife. I do hate it when either one of my children ask me why they can't do what i do in my PC with their consoles. :whistling:

Can you PM me the details on how to do that. Please asume I'm ileterate and tell me how to do it step by step. I too enjoy having a clean (I control) computer. I know Steam has been hacked a couple of times and don't want it around me.

The thing that made Oblivion (and it still making it happen) great, was modding, which will not be happening with Skyrim if the powers that be get their way. I'm bored and thru with Skyrim for the moment.

Well, after 180 hours of Skyrim, and getting the more pissed with Steam by the second, all I have to say is , I never had so much problems with a game before. Should have bought Batman?!, is over for me and Skyrim, will never buy again a game that is attached to the steam powered engine. Bye, bye Skyrim. So, for the time being, I guess is time to go back to Oblivion which never bored me and had something new to do all the time thanks to this community. And, by the way, never made me have to mess with the firewall and setting things this or that other way. :wallbash: Thank you anyway, for the solution mentioned, I'll check back on that 6 months from now.

With all the major improvements in game engines since Oblivion, if we have to compare Skyrim to Oblivion, to me it adds more power to Oblivion and speaks very poorly of Skyrim. :facepalm:

I've always avoided buying games attached to steam. This time I bought a box version at the store (knowing I could have saved some money if purchased online) precisely becaused I thought i would get a clean version not attached to Steam. I should have read more about it to find out. In any case I bought the game same day it came out and my very first situation with Steam then was a news update from them telling players we couldn't access their forums becaused it had been hacked. Do anyoneelse here remember that happening? Well, I think that says enough in its own as to what to expect from steam. Now steam not only messes with my playing Skyrim, but is also affecting my other games, and evrytime I'm going to shut down my computer, there it is, the only freaking thing running in the background that i have to wait for it to close. Man, F... Steam and Bethesda too.

Sorry guys, don't want to bother anyone, I just don't know where else to complain about Steam, I'm very pissed up about Steam, I think is unfair to not allow me to play unless connected to Steam...That is why I bouth the box version in the first place. I think I'm going to give up on the game, I hate evrytime I can't play because the Steam Cloud can't sink.

I, for one, wouldn't mind making "donations" to modders here at nexus. Bethesda and Oblivion owe much of their success to this community modders. It has always bothered me that anyone would try to control what I do or don't with something I've paid for, I am already bored with Skyrim and all it's bugs and I'm quite pissed with Steam. Skyrim needs some heavy modding in order to even come close to Oblivion's success and unless the tools are released to modders not attached to Steam, the game will go into history as many others have, while there will still be people playing Oblivion. So far Steam has nothing to offer me, but crashes and trouble, and as for Skyrim, well I've already said I'm getting increasingly bored with it. It is a shame for I waited very long for the game to come outt with high expectancies and bought the boxed version just so that I wouldn't have to bother with Steam and it turned out that I'm so "steamed up" that I can kill someone for it. Thanks for the chance of expressing how i feel, since evrytime some opens a thread at the Bethesda or Steam forums trying to complain they are automatically censored and attacked. I really like for the game to grow as it has a nice engine, but it needs heavy work. Still I have hope that Bethesda will come to it's senses and i don't have to wait a year or two to really enjoy the game. "Long live Oblivion and this community modders"