So how well is this game optimized for pc?

[fasty1]

Been on the other forum and TONS of people are experiencing issues with the game, but no complaint on this forum. Im assuming everyone is running the game on high-max at 50-60 fps constant even in cities?

[Handofbane]

Plenty of complaints abound, they are just toned down here compared to other forums, and generally (not always) made in a more mature form than other boards. The game isn't terrible, it has some issues still, and folks are waiting as patiently as they can for the patch next week before we see many more user-made fixes for the existing problems crop up. Oh, and very impatiently awaiting the Creation Kit. :wallbash:

 

Edit: answering the thread title as well - the game isn't very optimized for PC, and does take some tinkering for higher end rigs to get the most out of it. Plus, some players relying on keyboard/mouse are *still* suffering issues with the user interface (and buying a gamepad to get around that is out of the question for some of us).

[Deleted3158906User]

It has its problems, like any other PC game, but they dont outweigh the good things.

[Valamyr]

Its not too noticeable because I have a really powerful system from a couple months ago but despite this, there is the occasional slowdown especially after multitasking. Also, there seems to be times where the mouse slows down but not the rest, giving a feeling like it's laggy while it's not really...

 

I'd have to install it on my old PC to really comment I guess, but my gut feeling tells me "pretty damn crappy, thank god for my hot hardware". Ie, in the same league as previous titles for optimization.

 

What drastically improved is stability. Although the fact we have almost no mods yet certainly must help, but that aside, I recall vanilla Oblivion crashing on me far too much for my tastes. Skyrim with LAA never crashed for me yet; before LAA I had periodic crashes due to the memory limit but they were relatively rare still compared to FO3 or Oblivion.

[Trey5511]

Better than oblivion.

[nivea]

MUCH better then Oblivion, I think it runs pretty nicely on computers.... aside from a few issues such as shadows.

 

Oblivion ouch that is a computer killer lol.

[Vindekarr]

Absolutely no issues here-I even tested it on my work laptop and it works pretty great even on that relatively weak machine.

 

I don't mean this as a judgement, or an insult, but a lot of the people struggled to admit responsibility for anything, and a lot of games are, as a result, often unfairly described as "unoptimised"(poor quality PC, self inflicted mechanical troubles, inexperience and or outdated drivers) "badly designed/unabalanced"(user had trouble succeeding) or even "laggy crap"(playing online via dial up)

 

Most people understand what they're doing, but a lot of very vocal people on forums that have less strict rules tend to blame the game. Always check yourself first, megabugdet triple-A titles that have 90+ aggregate scores rarely have fatal flaws as obvious as the above mentioned problems. It's like race drivers, you talk to a driver who's lost a race, and nine times out of ten, he had a misfiring engine or a puncture.

[Rennn]

Absolutely no issues here-I even tested it on my work laptop and it works pretty great even on that relatively weak machine.

 

I don't mean this as a judgement, or an insult, but a lot of the people struggled to admit responsibility for anything, and a lot of games are, as a result, often unfairly described as "unoptimised"(poor quality PC, self inflicted mechanical troubles, inexperience and or outdated drivers) "badly designed/unabalanced"(user had trouble succeeding) or even "laggy crap"(playing online via dial up)

 

Most people understand what they're doing, but a lot of very vocal people on forums that have less strict rules tend to blame the game. Always check yourself first, megabugdet triple-A titles that have 90+ aggregate scores rarely have fatal flaws as obvious as the above mentioned problems. It's like race drivers, you talk to a driver who's lost a race, and nine times out of ten, he had a misfiring engine or a puncture.

 

Quoted for truth.

 

How many times have I heard someone whine on review collecting sites like Metacritic about how they scored Skyrim a '1.0' out of '10.0' because they couldn't run it because they thought 1000MB of RAM equalled 10000GB? (hint: people think that a lot)

 

Or because, gosh darn it, they just knew their 300w psu would be able to run Crysis without epic quantities of crashes. Hey, clearly crashing is the game's fault in that case. *rolls eyes*

 

Or, even better, how about the one person I know of who truly believed that he could stick a ps2 disk in his pc and it'd just automatically run great. Of course he blames the pc.

Edited November 23, 2011 by Rennn

[RejectedCamel]

I'd say it's optimised better than Oblivion, but still pretty crap. Graphically it's fine - heck, AA barely causes a loss of 2/3 FPS with my GTX 570, but it's ridiculously badly optimised for the processor. I get that it's a heavy game wit ha lot of stuff going on in the background, but the fact that it only uses 2 cores (or 2 threads?) is nearly a crime now-a-days for such a huge game. Then there's the fact that there's no 64-bit exe, or that it's simply limited to 2GB. Overall, it's better than Oblivion, but it's still awfully 'optimised'.

[Moogiefluff]

Purely in terms of performance and FPS, it's leaps and bounds better than Oblivion. In roughly 50 hours of play, I only crashed once, and rarely experienced slowdowns. (Mid-low range system: Intel Core2 Duo 2.3GHz, 4GB RAM, single Geforce 9800GT).