Edit: A lot of people ( Ghogiel & Witcher79 to name a couple ) may still be confused as to what HD means. "High Definition" 720p or 1080p is -only- considered HD if the content being displayed is native. As I explained below, you can take an SD movie at 16:9 or 16:10 and expand it to cover a 1080p screen. Does that make the video HD? NO. Same with this game. It doesn't matter what you're running it at, it matters what native resolution the textures are able to display before there is no more detail. 1080p or 720p are simply upper limits of a given display. Skyrim is capable of displaying in many HD resolutions, however the vast majority of the default textures are 512x512. ---- Hi, Im a Skyrim player and new to the Elder Scrolls modding community. First off want to say that ability to mod the game as the Elder Scrolls series allows is fantastic. Really great for the community to have fun even when they arnt out adventuring. One of the major things ive come here for is for the awesome HD textures many people have been working on and uploading for all to see their hard work. .. I just have one small beef so far.. People using photoshop/whatever to take a default texture from the game, applying (badly done) sharpening to this texture, blowing the texture up to 2048^2 or 4096^2 and pretending big numbers means they can put "HD" in the title. I will demonstrate two examples. One is truly an HD upgrade over the games textures, and one is a ... well, here they are, lets see if you can tell the difference. #1 http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2630 #2 http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2632 Now sure, some of us have 4GB of pure DDR5 pumping away, but most of us do not. The issue with (one of the above) uploads is #1 very lazy mod with no real work or visual upgrade put into it that is mislabeled HD, but more importantly #2 The image was 512x512 originally. 171KB. The blown up image with zero added actual detail is 2.5MB. For nothing. Doesnt seem like much, except not im wondering how many other cheap texture mods Ive downloaded that I need to sift through? Or any of us? Could we have some better quality control on bogus "HD" texture mods? Or at least make people more aware when commenting on bogus HD mods (be nice). Sure someone may like the look, but it isnt HD, and thats what many of us are looking for. If I wanted a sharpened effect I'd use an injector(do!). Thanks for reading, and happy (actual) HD texturing!