Warning about 3D

[lgpmichael]

Along with all the other ****ing annoyances of steam, I hit this one that made me have to reinstall.

 

I am using the LG passive 3D (yay lighter glasses, no batteries, like at the cinema) so this may not happen on other types of 3D, but just in case.

 

I started Skyrim in 3D mode, and ran it for a few minutes. Unfortunately the skybox is too close (again, like in Oblivion) and the effects such as the annoying blood splatter on the screen doesn't look right, and the stupid immersion breaking kill moves where it takes you out of 1st person into 3rd person also looked wrong. Ironically the things that annoyed me most about the game are the things that didn't work (I am so hoping I can mod them out within about 90 seconds of the tool coming out)

 

But anyway, enough of that. I decided that even though I'd spent a small fortune so I could play Skyrim in 3D, until these things can be fixed, I cant play it like that yet.

 

So, I started Skyrim without first loading up the 3D system. And behold, something that steam does has now detected I have 3D, and so FORCES it into 3D. I am thus stuck in 3D until I reinstall.

 

This isn't a Skyrim issue, as this is all about preloading different directX libraries, and happens before Skyrim starts, so steam is the culprit. This was workable while you still had direct access to the Skyrim exe, but as of last patch (which seems to have fixed precisely nothing) you dont get that any more so a reinstall is the only way to go.

 

So, if you are thinking of trying out 3D, maybe take a backup, or something. I don't actually know how steam is messign it up, so I don't know a fix, sorry. Maybe if someone knows, they can post a reply.

 

Sorry if this post seems quite angry at the whole situation, but I am. All of these problems caused by Steam are problems because Bethesda decided to treat honest customers like criminals. If they actually think this will prevent one person pirating the game, they are insane, all it does is make the people that actually pay for the game a little more angry, and that's stupid. I'm an honest customer, I also work in the games industry and I've WRITTEN games DRM that actually works and does NOT treat honest customers like criminals, and it drives me nuts when this kind of stupidity happens. For any other game I would have taken it back for a refund by now.