fasty1 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 I hope the new engine will be much more optimized than the oblivion engine which as many of you know had serious performance issue? Looking at skyrim footage on the 360 the game seem to run super smooth with no lag or stuttering(which i experienced plenty on the pc version of oblivion. My specs are x6 1055t 2.8ghz and 6870, and i swear if a $300 POS can run the game better than my comp i am gonna flip @##@#. Hopefully the developer figure out how to optimize the engine better, there should be no reason why my computer should be beat by 2005 hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iv000 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 We've had a discussion about that a few weeks back.Basically, it's safe to assume that it will be optimized.They are working on the same hardware for years now (Since 2006 with Oblivion), and I'm sure they know all the optimization tricks by now.Fallout 3 was a lot better optimized then Oblivion and logically you would expect Skyrim to be quite a bit better optimized then Fallout 3. Though you will need good hardware, but truth is, not even the best hardware can fix a badly optimized game.I trust Todd and Bethesda on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimembrain Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 (edited) It will run smoother than oblivion no doubt .. Have you ran F3? .. the finer tuned Bethesda engine ... it will run about the same .. or at least have the same hardware requirments... which isnt to much. Edit: what Lv000 said... Edited September 17, 2011 by jedimembrain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu02 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 The Fallout-games didnt have quite the same detailed environment as Oblivion had with its massive forests though. But at least it seemed to handle LOD a lot smoother. Oblivion put a lot of stress directly on the harddrive, which became a huge bootleneck and made the game stutter like hell when loading new areas of detailed objects in a fast pace, if you had the game installed on a mechanic HDD. Installing on an SSD or RAM-disk instead solved this problem very nicely! But yeah, Skyrim will most probably run a lot smoother, as they say they have reworked all the code behind this (I assume to the better!). At least until the modders stuff the gameworld with tons of more detail :teehee: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikedepreston Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 My 360 is not a "pos" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iv000 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 My 360 is not a "pos"Truth be told, if you are comparing the hardware of a 360 to an average PC (Let alone a gaming PC), the 360 looks like garbage.I'm not saying the console itself is not good, I'm just comparing the hardware.And sometimes it's quite strange when a console with 6 year old hardware can run a game better then a PC with the newest specs.Though that's a matter of optimization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hejpadig Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 I'm wondering which Xbox they used for the demos. Since nowadays there are like slim and elite, and I assume the classic Xbox 360 I have won't show the same performance as the others mentioned. (Because I'm planning on playing on Xbox if my PC can't handle it, which I don't think, but still) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikedepreston Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 My 360 is not a "pos"Truth be told, if you are comparing the hardware of a 360 to an average PC (Let alone a gaming PC), the 360 looks like garbage.I'm not saying the console itself is not good, I'm just comparing the hardware.And sometimes it's quite strange when a console with 6 year old hardware can run a game better then a PC with the newest specs.Though that's a matter of optimization. I'd expect an average PC to be able to perform better than a games console! In fact, I can make Oblivion look much prettier on my PC than on my xbox but it doesn't run as well. Fact is that the specs of the 360 haven't changed since 2005 yet Skyrim, which is a large, complex open-world game with stunning graphics can run on it... so it's hardly a "pos" ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikedepreston Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 (edited) I'm wondering which Xbox they used for the demos. Since nowadays there are like slim and elite, and I assume the classic Xbox 360 I have won't show the same performance as the others mentioned. (Because I'm planning on playing on Xbox if my PC can't handle it, which I don't think, but still) As far as I know... the "new" xbox simply runs more quietly and cooler than the old ones. Other differences are simply things like HDMI ports and the size of the hard drive. I still have my first xbox, no HDMI with a 20gb hard drive... seems rather quaint now (though not as quaint as my first PC 80286 12mhz processor with 512k ram and a massive 20mb hard drive) I fixed it earlier this year from the 3-red-lights problem and broke the power switch and the DVD eject button (which made 3-disc LA Noire a real *censored* to play) but it runs fine now :-) [edit: Why is the female dog word censored?] Edited September 17, 2011 by mikedepreston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 I'll be happy if it doesn't show my desktop every ten minutes, I'm getting fed up with that Bethesda feature. Back on topic, yes it should run smoothly if they've put any effort in to the optimisation, the difference in power between a 360/PS3 and a gaming PC is huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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