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I reverted to 1.1 after 1.2 came out and have been terrified to update since.

I've made two that I really ended up liking. Not sure if they are original or not: Class: Spellbreaker Race: Breton Primary Equipment: - Enchanted Sword - Highest armor shield available - All enchanted cloth with no +armor, including booths and gloves Primary Skilltrees: - Alteration (+resistance, +mage armor (yes this works with a shield)) - One-Handed - Block Secondary Skilltrees: - Restoration - Conjuration (mostly elemental conjuration and bindings) - Enchanting Description: Built him to have maximum natural resistances (+55% without enchantments, plus shield magic block perk). I've also enchanted his cloaks and stuff enough to let him constantly use mage armor, conjuration and paralyze (which is kind of game-breaking). Class: Dark Lord from Hell Race: Argonian Primary Equipment: - Big, bad@$$ 2-handed weapon - Heavy armor (preferably with horns) Primary Skilltrees: - Two-Handed - Conjuration (all necromancy) - Illusion Secondary Skilltrees: - Restoration - Smithing - Enchanting Description: Was a toss-up between Argonian and Orc for most mean-looking dark mage. I picked Argonian just because I've never played an Argonian before, and they look pretty cool in Skyrim. Was going for an evil death-lord or whatever that pwns your friends and raises their bodies. The necromancy + fear/fury spells really help cause chaos in large battles. When the chaos is set-in, I pull out my favorite battleaxe or greatsword, or conjure one up, and the party starts.

Well NEVERMIND. It worked beautifully all day yesterday, but today it's been really bad with the fps drops. When they happen during fights, I'm absolutely toast. These stutters should not be happening on my rig at all. I made sure the GPU was forced to high performance at all times. I'm not sure what else to do, and I'm not sure what I did to fix it for the day yesterday. Seems so random to me. Any other ideas?

I personally enjoy how magicka regen is slowed during combat. Makes it so you have to be smart with your magic and be more precise with your hits. No more spamming. I made a combo warrior/conjurer character and unintentionally brought his conjuration up to 90+ by level ~30, mostly with bound weapons and the occasional zombie/atranoch. Alteration on the same character was up to 80. I'm not sure what the complaint is about not being able to level magic.

That's weird. My first char saw at least 10+ dragon before level 30. I had more souls stocked up that I had words to unlock at one point. I know there are some that patrol certain areas. I think there is a static one in the southeastern marsh. I could be wrong.

I read my share of lore because I'm a nerd, but correct me if I'm wrong... Didn't they sort of pull the events of Oblivion out of their butts? I mean, there was some stuff going on with Mr. Merhunes Dagon before Oblivion, but not enough to foreshadow the events of Oblivion. Was there any warning that the dragons were going to surface again before Skyrim came out? They sent Alduin forward in time with the Elder Scroll, but he could have popped out at any given time. My point is, the next TES game will probably introduce something completely new. Honestly, a continuation of the whole Dominion/Empire war as the main plot would be extremely drab for a TES game. As a continuing backstory, it would be fine, but I'm guessing there will be 100% new material in the next TES, which, to me, means that any province is fair game. That said, I think sticking Valenwood and Elsweyr together and using that region would be a good bet, maybe an expansion or something that allows you to travel to Summerset, or just stick that into the vanilla. I'm hoping for a larger region just because I feel like I flushed out Oblivion and Skyrim too quickly with the fast travel thing. Or... Akavir!

My idea for one of my characters was to use the Breton race magic resistance, alteration perks and shield perks to raise magic resistance to high levels. I've obtained all the necessary perks, and I was just wondering how the elemental protection perk for shields works exactly, or if anyone knows. The perk says it blocks 50% of the damage caused by frost, fire or shock. So, I've got +25% resist from being a Breton and +30% resist from the alteration perks, which equals 55%. Does the elemental protection add 50% resist to the three elements, effectively raising my resistance to 105% for elemental attacks, or does it negate 50% of the damage AFTER it has been reduced by resistance? I was wondering because it looks as if I'm still taking damage from magic attacks when my shield is raised. I'm not running 1.2, so I'm assuming the resistance bug isn't affecting anything.

Not important, but just kind of jars the immersion for me sometimes. I really wish that corpses that have been raised with a zombie spell (raise zombie, reanimate dead, etc.) would act more like zombies. Right now it's more like you've resurrected them than zombified them. The animation for raising a corpse is creepy and awesome, but it would be even more creepy and awesome if they fought with a limp neck and constant groans or something (it's really dumb how some of them full on banter). I would dig a mod that does this.

Hey guys, thanks for the responses. I couldn't find any morphological filtering option (to turn on or off) in my CCC (may not be an option with my card, as they cut corners with mobility cards a lot), but I poked around in the power settings. I have power set to high performance when plugged in, but I forced high performance at all times just for kicks to see if that helped at all. Looks like it did, I haven't noticed any major unexplained fps drops for about half an hour now. Perhaps something derpy is happening with my adapter and it cuts power for fractions of a second, causing the GPU to stutter when the settings are set to go "power save" when on battery. Who knows... what a simple fix. I'll post if it starts happening again. Again, thanks!

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Graphics are already set to low, and I'm still experiencing the stuttering. I have a feeling it's not the GPU... but I don't know. I'm not able to find any easy access to my fan speed or anything because I'm on a mobility chip, and they don't offer any overclocking or fan speed messing around usually. I didn't look terribly far into it though. The stock Catalyst Control Center offers no fan speed control though.

I have messed around more with the .ini, and it looks like the dungeons are more smooth, but in the outside world the slow fps has become a pulsating problem... like, it'll be at 60 for 10 seconds or so and then dip to 20 for 2 or 3 seconds. During fights with wolves it'll dip to 10 or 15 fps. This is so weird, because it happens when I'm standing still also. It's like the CPU is running a check or reloading something every 10 seconds or so. Double checked background apps, nothing else is running.

Daggerfall ftw :dance: Jk For me, it's a toss-up between Morrowind and Skyrim... will have to play Skyrim more to really decide. But each game had its flaws and its achievements. My least favorite was Oblivion just because I couldn't get over the broken leveling system, and I couldn't find a mod that fixed it to my taste. Fortunately, in my opinion, Bethesda fixed the leveling system and knocked it out of the park with Skyrim. I absolutely adore the leveling and skill system. It's very natural and the perks are super fun. I still miss the levitation spells and potions from Morrowind, and I think the Skyrim spell library could be expanded (it very well may be in the future, or with mods), but Skyrim has really caught my eye with the dungeon diversity. I nearly wet myself when I realized they brought back the Dwemer ruins. The civil wars are pretty ballin' too, I gotta say. Storming Whiterun and slaughtering all those butthole guards was great.

This seems to have either started after 1.2 or gotten worse after 1.2 (I don't remember this causing me to rage last week). I can be walking around the world, killing things, going into dungeons, murdering farmers on their way to join the rebellion, etc. etc., and I'll be cruising at 40 ~ 60 fps. :dance: At random moments I'll get drops down to 20 fps, and sometimes it dips to 5. A few seconds later it gets cleared up, but this happens anywhere between every 10 minutes to 30 seconds. I'm having a hard time narrowing down what's causing the problem... Skyrim defaults my graphics to high, but I have them currently set to low in order to narrow things down... I've turned off AA, AF, messed with the .ini, messed with the gameplay options, have shadows down as far as they'll go (I heard the shadows cause problems a lot). I thought it might have something to do with the world loading as I moved along, but it happens when I'm standing still, and also happens in dungeons. 5 fps really sucks when Mr. Bandit Chief is running at you with a greatsword, bent on avenging his slaughtered comrades. o_O I'm not running any mods at all, and I've been reading the forums and I've tried a crapton of stuff, nothing seems to alleviate the spastic gameplay. It's not exactly game-breaking, but it makes me rage. If anyone has any ideas at all, I'd be willing to try it. I'm on a laptop. Here are the specs: OS: Windows 7 64-bit CPU: Intel Core i5 2.67 GHz GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 RAM: 4GB HD: 500 GB Keyboard: Back-lit for awesomeness Hot Cocoa Dispenser: Mint Chocolate

I haven't had a lot of the common problems that I've read about on here, but I've noticed some significant differences: - Load time / save time is significantly longer. - Looks like resistances are all gone. I should have 100% resist with Breton + Alteration resist upgrades + Elemental Shield protection perk, and I'm still getting fried by spells. - Lots of jerkiness in the wilderness, notably when trees are being loaded on the edge of my viewing plane. This was non existent before the 1.2. - Lots of random lag / jerkiness during combat whether I am outside or inside a dungeon. This happens in small areas where there should be 0 lag, and I get down to like 1 fps sometimes. Not sure what is triggering it, maybe the A.I.? So much lag sometimes I don't even want to play, whereas before there was absolutely no lag, fps was cruising at 40 ~ 50. My machine isn't that biggest baddest beast out there, but it defaults to high settings. I have them set to low right now in a desperate attempt to relieve the lag, but I really don't think it's the graphics. Something else is causing the jerkiness that wasn't a problem before the patch. I've checked background apps and updated drivers and everything. This is driving me absolutely nuts. I want to try reverting but I've played a lot with the new patch, and I'm afraid my saves won't revert well, if at all. Well, that's my rant. Hopefully next week they will fix this crap. Ugh... :facepalm: