asterix645 Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 (edited) I played Skyrim years ago when it came out, so my memory of it originally is a bit rusty. I recently built a powerful gaming PC and reinstalled Skyrim.I know that open-world games employ LODs and such to avoid loading the entire world at once. But is it suppossed to occur like this? Look at 0:30 how the entire farm just pops in across the river. And at 1:00 where the cliff face just appears out of nowhere. Watch in fullscreen, 1080p to see it best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upq440MCRfU&feature=youtu.be My specs are in the video decsription. I'm running everything maxed out and no mods.I will be very very sad that it has defective parts considering all the money I spent on it. I'm looking to find out if "that's just how Skyrim is" or "nah dude, something is defintely wrong with your $1500 computer" Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Edited March 17, 2015 by asterix645
skydragon1978 Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 Hi...first off, I admit I'm technically useless and not clued in at all about specs etc. I also have a laptop which is totally disgusted at my modified Skyrim lol. However, I do have some suspicions about your situation, so if you don't mind I'll throw my hat into the ring....but please defer to other opinions before mine lol. I know from the readme's of some texture mods that the game renders 'far off terrain' with much less detail than close up...the farm is actually there before the 30 second mark, just very faint and not detailed. It's my thinking that at the 30 second point, you go from the farm being 'far off' to 'close', so the game adds the detail, but does it suddenly rather than fading it in, giving you the 'pop'. I've seen this on my system, but as I said it's running at Low quality, so I don't know what it should be like for higher end machines. I've also seen the popping shadow thing....that might be a perspective issue....when you're further away from the rock, you don't see the shadow as well as up close. Again I can't say anything about higher end machines, but it certainly happens on my system. Hope this helps....but there are many, many people with knowledge far superior to mine...I've managed to break Skyrim three times!
kevkiev Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Seems normal to me. I first encountered that during fallout 3 and it drove me crazy for awhile, but I got used to it. There's a few mods on here that help with distant terrain (including waterfall animations - critical imo). The STEP project.is a good starting point for that and most other basics http://wiki.step-project.com/STEP:2.2.9
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