You Won't Believe How Gloriously Amazing Skyrim Can Look

DSOGaming writes: "Skyrim was released two years (plus a couple of months) ago, and I seriously can’t believe how amazing its modded version looks. It’s not stretch to say that Skyrim modded puts to shame a lot of recently released titles, something that further proves the huge potential of Skyrim and how Bethesda did not take advantage of it."

[Muffins1223]

Have fun running this at 10fps guys

[xPhearR3dx]

Mine looks very similar to these. Environmental wise, I don't use all those AVP/Dead Space model mods and I get a steady 40-50 FPS outside and a flawless 60FPS inside. Running SLI with GTX 660 TI.

[Hatsune-Miku]

The developers should have done these things. Most of the times i get these mods they often lead to problems so i dont download them anymore.

[xPhearR3dx]

Make sure you read the description of EVERY single mod. I had the same problem when I first got Skyrim for PC. 90% of the time, the reason they lead to problems is because the person downloading it failed to read.

Some modes require other mods, altering INI files, perform a clean save, or even manually adding files. Some conflict with others. For example, if you download two mods that slightly alter the appearance of Whiterun, and one changes an area in your other mod, they will conflict and you'll problems.

Once I decided to stop being lazy and read everything properly, I haven't ran into any issues.

[ABizzel1]

@xPhearR3dx

Agreed, people think these graphic mods break PC's, because it couldn't be done on their console, and it's funny to me. Have can you have an opinion on something you've NEVER PLAYED.

Most of the mods are simply HD, 2k, 4k texture packs that load into your GDDR5 RAM, so unlike you would think, you aren't taking a real hit to performance until you start adding more mods than your GPU's RAM can handle (the more GB and bandwidth you have the more mods you can run).

On top of that there are even mods you can use to increase performance giving you more FPS, and allowing you to run the game at higher setting than your PC should be capable of.

It just goes to show that the majority of you don't have a gaming PC. You have a basic Black Friday like PC with no dedicated GPU, and yet your here discussing things you know nothing about. Go to a computer store like Microcenter, and learn about gaming PC's.

[thekhurg]

Doesn't change the boring gameplay though.

[SilentNegotiator]

"I don't use all those AVP/Dead Space model mods"
-
But you at least use the Macho Man Randy Savage Dragon mod, right? RIGHT???

Why would I "not believe" this? Even if I hadn't used the mods myself, this is only the 100,000th "OMG LOOK AT THESE SCREENSHOTS WE STOLE OF A MOD" article of Skyrim.

[DragonKnight]

@Silent: The question is, how can you NOT use the Macho Man Dragon Mod? I'd have to ask anyone who doesn't "Bro, do you even mod?"

And I agree with you about the article. In a month, another one of these will pop up. And the amount of these that pop up is very telling about what is important to modders and the community's wants.

[Irishguy95]

"Doesn't change the boring game though"

No, but there are other mods for that. PC versions are always the definitive version

[MarkusMcNugen]

If you care about realism, why not give this disturbing mod a try.

http://www.nexusmods.com/sk...

[frostypants]

@IrishGuy95, actually, the definitive version of software is what is released by devs, not modders. I'd also argue that the definitive version of Diablo 3 is the one on consoles (and I'd be right).

[decrypt]

@frost

Yea you keep telling yourself that lol.

[frostypants]

@decrypt, do you ever get tired of being wrong?

[AndrewLB]

xPhearR3dx- I highly recommend Nexus Mod Manager, BOSS, SKSE Loader, and Wrye Bash. Use these utilities and to install mods, detect conflicts, and run repairs, etc... without having to manually edit anything. They not only got me up and running about 30 mods, the two times I screwed up the game install was fixed in about 10 minutes using Wrye Bash.

[UltimateMaster]

How bout having these graphics for next gen?

[SilentNegotiator]

@DragonKnight

At least these aren't as frequent as the GTA 4 mod articles that appear with every 0.01 update to the one or two especially prominent graphics mods. But still, Skyrim mod articles appear pretty frequently.

[aquamala]

lol the versions of Diablo 3 that are not even 720p (they are 1120x584) are the definitive ones?

[decrypt]

You dont need very powerful hardware to make Skyrim look that good and yes it can still run at 60fps plus.

That is because the game was designed with 7 year old consoles in mind, obviously even midrange pc hardware is far far more powerful, hence improving the graphics doesnt really take much of a toll on the hardware.

[thezeldadoth]

my really old GTS 450 played skyrim at ultra. it doesn't even phase cards today, even low to mid range ones

[shuuwai]

Try running all image at 4k, high FX image example are heavy snow storm, heavy rain storm, lighting at 4k image, all character models at 4k, fog distance lifted, remodel all characters with high polygon count, building, lands, environment are are 3 times of the old model or more.

Try run that with 780, I dare you tell me you won't see black missing texture. Wish i could run at 4k images, but i doubt I'll notice the different. -_-;; I'm running at 2k images. Looks very rich and lifelike.

High setting w/o mod can be easily run at 460.

Yet using high image for everything with high count polygon models, and using a ENB system that 460 will run it, but not well.

http://www.nexusmods.com/sk...
http://www.enbdev.com/

Okay, pc mode off. -_-

edit:

I have 326 mod running in skyrim at once. -_-;;

[Jovanian]

skyrim actually runs surprisingly well even when its pimped out with a bunch of mods

Its staggering how day and night different modded skyrim is to vanilla skyrim. Vanilla skyrim offers a miniscule amount of immersion compared to skyrim with even the most basic immersion mods

[GarrusVakarian]

Well seeing as Skyrim is the most immersed ive ever been in a videogame (i played the 360 version for 600+ hours), i would love to see what the immersion mods do to make it even more immersive.

[Jovanian]

@Lukas

One mod that is particularly drastic in how much more lively it makes skyrim feel is this one mod that adds flora and grass and plants and trees everywhere. Not just willy nilly, but region specific vegetation. Climate specific vegetation. You'd think this would tank somebodies framerate but it didn't, and it made skyrim feel so much more alive.

Theres this other mod that completely redoes nearly all of the clothing and armor and weapons, in a lore friendly manner (a guard still has that original guard armor, but certain parts of the armor is seriously overhauled and it looks excellent). These are just a couple examples, and I only install mods that match the aesthetic of the skyrim world itself, so all these immersion mods make skyrim much more skyrim-y.

There are indeed options for ridiculous and silly mods that give you a car in skyrim, or add machine guns to the game, but you don't have to download those if you don't want to, which is the beauty of modding

[DragonKnight]

If you want immersion in Skyrim, you want the realistic diseases and survival mod for Skyrim (I don't know if that's the actual name, I'm going off memory).

Anyway, what the mod does is allows your character to get hungry, thirsty, and tired, forcing you to hunt, gather water, and sleep. You can't just drink or eat though. If you drink water right out of a stream, you can catch a disease. Same thing with food that isn't cooked. If you don't sleep, your stamina is affected. If you sleep just anywhere like an outdoor cot that was abandoned, you can get sick.

It also adds the ability to field dress animal carcasses and adds realistic time passage when tanning hides. You could kill a deer and proceed to skin it and find that it took hours and you're hungry when you're finished. Then you boil some water, cook the deer meet, and go to sleep and you're good.

This makes you have to consider how long it will take you to get through dungeons and plan ahead for them.

Then there's the Skyrim Economic Overhaul mod that makes Skyrim's economy more realistic as well. It changes how much gold merchants have, shows you how much items are ACTUALLY worth instead of the base number that is never factually representative of the final gold you receive, and adjusts gold acquisition.

Those 2 mods alone can add some real challenge to Skyrim.

[MarkusMcNugen]

@DragonKnight

http://www.nexusmods.com/sk...

It's Realistic Needs and Diseases. A very interesting mod indeed.

[Sethry101]

"further proves the huge potential of Skyrim and how Bethesda did not take advantage of it"

That would be true if everyone's pc's could run these mods, but unfortunately they cant, so Bethesda has to provide for everyone's needs.

I will agree that they could add more to their max settings, but that takes time and will only ever be used by the elite few.

Bethesda realise all of this and that's why the create their games in a way that makes them easily moddable. And in this sense they actually do a really good job with all their games.

Also I agree with other comments, that the fact that they were also making this game for old console with out of date hardware would hold them back a bit.

[AndrewLB]

Umm... last I checked, Skyrim was probably the most graphically advanced game on PC at the time and my PC wasn't able to run 1200p/60 with my GTX570 that I owned. And that card was the second fastest card nV made at the time.

The only thing they missed out on was not fixing the early sutttering issue that dissuaded many people early on, but by all estimates they did return to play the game once bugs were worked out.

[SilentNegotiator]

Skyrim's budget has been estimated as high as $100 million. If people want to add details that mostly only people with more expensive systems will make use of, they can make it in their free-time. Bethesda can't be expected to waste more millions on the elite when console sales probably at least matched PC sales and not even half of PC gamers could experience it.

[Sethry101]

Don't disagree with either of you above, hence I disagree with the statement the article makes that Bathesda didn't take advantage of the potential, my argument is that they could yes do better but its not worth it, they lose money and it stops becoming a game to become a tech demo.

[MarkusMcNugen]

@Some people above me

I agree with you mostly, but there are plenty of awesome mods that are not complicated, add more immersion to the game, and do not make lower-end PCs take a FPS hit.

In this sense, there was more they could have done. When it comes to maxed out graphical fidelity however, I agree. Would cost more money than it would have been worth.

[awi5951]

@AndrewLB

You had the wrong drivers or something i ran that game on ultra with 1 6870 @1080P and i got a locked 60fps ??? Your computer has issues or something.

For some reason bethesda games always have run very well on AMD stuff always defaulting to ultra one of the few studios that does. People like Crytek will try and tell AMD people to run on med instead of ultra but thats because nvidia payed them off. Everytime a game tries to tell me to default to med i turn it on ultra anyway and still get 60+ fps. I think its more marketing BS pulled by Nvidia.

[AndrewLB]

AWI5951- There was absolutely nothing wrong with my computer. The issue was with nVidia's drivers for Kepler based graphics cards which had to do with VSYNC and triple buffering.

nVidia admitted there was a problem and it was caused by their drivers. It also took 2 months for them to fix.

READ: https://forums.geforce.com/...

In the future perhaps you should make sure you know the facts before pointing fingers. You're a PC gamer... don't behave like the Console fanboys.

[awi5951]

@AndrewLB

Well i was right your drivers were screwed up. You should have tried some older ones instead. I often find if a game is messed up i can find older drivers that will run a game better than the newest ones. Like when i bought bioshock infinite 2 months ago the old drivers run the game on ultra at 200 fps @1080p the newest ones only runs it at 150.

[OverPaperSkies]

Afraid it runs at 100fps+ at 1440p with my two Titans.... That's with mods.

You fail.

[SilentNegotiator]

So you probably spent 3 times as much as the majority of PC gamers on your system and it runs well?

Congratulations.

[OverPaperSkies]

Yes I did and I couldn't be happier.

Okay? :)

[bumnut]

I would have got 3 780 ti's

[shuuwai]

Ha.. I see what you did there.

[ABizzel1]

@Muffins

Wrong, if you try to break your system, knowing you don't have the power to run 100s of mods, then yes you can get a 10fps. However, you can easily make Skyrim shatter the normal versions by adding about 10 - 20 mods, and your performance hit is minimal at best, because most of the mods are simply texture mods that use the Graphics Memory (which the original game, barely touches since it's a console port and the PS360 only have 512MB of DDR3).

Know what your talking about before speaking, it makes you look more intelligent.

[ape007]

Muffins....salty salt

[HardcoreGamer]

FOOTAGE OR DIDNT HAPPEN LOL

Iv got like the best pc set up money can buy right now so im sure mine can do 60fps , iv spent £3600 on my pc set up in the last year

[tee_bag242]

Not really. I use similar mods, texture packs, overhauls and ENB's and can run 1080p 60 fps while recording at 1080p 60 fps lol.
I do run a SLI rig though. Long live Skryim!

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[kingduqc]

cute console kids haha. He's too used to paly on 7 year old hardware he's not aware of how pc destroy console at this point. even next gen is far behind in the dust.

[assdan]

You could probably get a system that runs these graphics at 30+ fps for under a thousand dollars.

[ssj27]

This mod will look great on GTAV.. oh wait my bad lol ;)

I pass on this game after getting bored of oblivion realky fast i fired it will be more of the same. Plus there are better similar theme game like Dark Soul's with a actually good gameplay.

Those visuals do look amazing, I'm hoping for that quality after half of the PS4 life spam.

[TheGreyest]

My PC just melted loading the screenshots.

[edgeofsins]

Look up Hialgo graphics mod. It's amazing for increasing performance.

[liquidhalos]

No point in being negative about it Muffins.

There are some incredibly talented people out there, credit where credits due

[ElementX]

I'm playing with a bunch of mods however I haven't tried out any ENBs because I've heard the frame rate takes a pretty hard hit. Skyrim does look really good with the mods I am using, however.

[xPhearR3dx]

Depends on your ENB. I'm using this ENB:

http://www.nexusmods.com/sk...

As I said above, I get 40-50FPS outside and 60FPS inside. I'm also running lots of 2-4K texture mods though which are really what's hitting the performance for outside by 10-20FPS.

Some ENB's have no affect on FPS, more powerhouse ones that have tons of effects and AA do. Trust me, try out a lot of ENB's until you find one you like that performs well. It's night and day compared to vanilla.

[ElementX]

I'll consider however I am only running a single 660ti

[xPhearR3dx]

Even before I got my second 660TI I still had most of these mods. Not as many 2-4K texture mods, but never had issues with ENB dragging my performance down.

ENB is also very easy to get rid of. All the files start with "enb_xxxx" so deleting those plus SweetFX and it's gone.

[ElementX]

I'll check it out. I have the 2k texture packs.

[Are_The_MaDNess]

any newer version of enb is worth is with the ENBoost in it.
it will lower your ram usage by aton. scenes that can take up to 3gigs of ram can now just use around 600-700 megs. most times it also makes the game run faster. it all depends on the enb setting tho.

the RealVision ENB ( http://www.nexusmods.com/sk... )is one of the better once if you like to be realistic and have vivid colors.
it even have a performance option and have support for 3 different lighting mods out of the box, but that is only if you want it to look like the dev (of the ENB) want it to look like.

the ENB manager is a great app if you plan on testing out alot of enbs, a small bit of work if you want to make a library, but quick to learn how it works. http://www.nexusmods.com/sk...

[Back-to-Back]

I always avoid enb. The performance hit they take is terrible. I usually drops 20 fps when I enable an enb. Their are much better alternatives with less performance hits.

[Splice]

Who else would pay for a next gen port that looked this good with all the DLC?

[feraldrgn]

Now if only I had a rig that could play that (at a steady 30 atleast), that didn't cost a bomb on the electricity bill. :(

[GarrusVakarian]

Love the ENB, but i can't stand mods that mess with the look of NPC's or character models, or mods that change the lore of the game too much like armour sets that aren't made by the devs etc etc......i dunno why it bothers me so much, but it does. Beautiful Eleven women character models/wings/ over the top/skimpy armour sets just doesn't fit in the Skyrim world in my opinion.

If i had a PC good enough to run Skyrim with mods i would only have ENB/graphical mods and some other light mods like extra weapon holsters.

[webeblazing]

elves in this games looks the worst. uglier than any game. mods fixed this and the alot of problems. they add lore to the game if anything read above post about fixing and improving problem with armor cause im not seeing your point. lukas it bothers you cause you havent experience it like so many people do on this site.

[GarrusVakarian]

". lukas it bothers you cause you havent experience it "

1) Don't tell me what i have and have not experienced. My 2 best friends both have gaming PC's and many mods for Skyrim which i have seen and played myself many times.

"elves in this games looks the worst. uglier than any game"

2) They are supposed to look like that, Skyrim isn't high-fantasy, it's more gritty fantasy. The Elves aren't supposed to be beautiful and having big boobs and huge butts. It's the way the devs decided to design them and that's the way i want them to stay. If i want beautiful Elves i will play a high-fantasy RPG.

4) You're not seeing my point? It's pretty clear that im saying i don't like mods that mess with the lore of a game. Armour, NPC, character model mods etc just aren't for me.

3) It is damn funny how insecure PC players can be. Say something about PC gaming in a negative light and they instantly jump on you and make presumptions, haha. Im not saying "DON'T MOD YOUR GAME!"......Im just saying it's not for me, apart from the ENB mods.

[webeblazing]

nope not insecure and what is a pc player. play on to many platform to bash one, i just bash the fanboys on this site that constantly spread bs on every platform. your just one of the many ps fanboys with massive amount of bubbles that bash anything thats not exclusively or shows an advantage to sonys. and when did i said elves with big butts equal makes them better. you must have not payed attention to the block models and glitches that was apart of some of the character models. and like i said the armor mod fix the armors in the game creating a better sense of lore.

if your playing once and a blue moon on someone elses game and you didnt notice this is because your friend fix it by download the mods. and how you being wrong about mods that change the look of npcs be negative, i already stated some do different things than others. some change model in fix glitches and better lore or some change them completely like the cover girls mode (make up beautiful elves), like i said spreading bs. if your not fully sure dont state it like they all have the same effect.

only thing thats gritty about skyrim is the color(gears look), and if your looking of a more gritty type of gameplay mods.

so would you say adding flora mod mess up the lore. do you know what that mod is. would you say messing with the setting changing the grass rendering to change the density will mess up the lore. i find it hard where you draw the line giving that the most mods peeople use is apart of what your saying and keeps the lore except for the costumes, cbbe, and crazy funny one thats just for laughs

[GarrusVakarian]

"your just one of the many ps fanboys with massive amount of bubbles that bash anything thats not exclusively or shows an advantage to sonys."

Again with the presumptions. Sigh. What makes you think you know me so well? Me bashing mods on Skyrim has NOTHING to do with the fact i prefer Sony lmao....wtf is wrong with you? Im not going to "bash" something just because it's not exclusive to Sony, you know how petty that sounds? I love games, no matter who makes them or who they are exclusive too. Also, why do you care so much about my bubbles?

"only thing thats gritty about skyrim is the color(gears look)"

LMAO...did....did you just compare Skyrim with Gears? Hahaha, wow. Skyrim is classed as 'gritty fantasy', 'high fantasy' would be WoW or Kingdoms Of Amalur or Guuld Wars 2 or the majority of Japanese fantasy RPG's. Learn your fantasy genres. When people mix high fantasy mods with a gritty fantasy game....it doesn't work, in my opinion.

"so would you say adding flora mod mess up the lore"

You clearly didn't read my comment because i didn't even mention flora, i listed NPC's, character models, armour. I would definitely use flora mods and ENB mods that improve the look of the game, but i wouldn't use anything that changes the lore. I don't understand why you are having trouble understanding that.

Now please stop replying to me, your comments are really hard to read.

[tee_bag242]

I have to agree with you on this Lukas. All the graphic mods are great. I can fall in love with Skyrim all over again, I run them too but I don't like discrediting the original game feel/lore.
Yeah so no pink haired FFantasy women running around with shock rifles etc.

[megalonagyix]

agreed

[Totoro17]

Lol those Aliens came out from nowhere. Awesome screenshots, btw.

[sgtGanGreen]

You call that amazing?
You can see each polygon lol
Textures are good tho

[KratosSaveUs]

I remember when Skyrim first released I thought it was stupid and nerdy like WOW. But then I bought it and now its my favorite game of all time.

[Irishguy95]

Stupid and nerdy like WOW?

XD, it's quite sad to see a supposed gamer in this day and age refer to a game as stupid and nerdy. Skyrim is just as 'stupid and nerdy' as any fantasy game is including WOW.

As in, they aren't stupid and nerdy, they have that stupid and untrue stereotype associated with them like gaming used to have in general. Which is of course, completely stupid and untrue. Despite how the media tries to portray gamers.

If you don't like Fantasy then fine. Don't try to act like their is something wrong with it. I hate that, selective choosing between which type of 'fantasy' is ok and which isn't. Oh also, there is a damn good reason WOW became popular.

[KratosSaveUs]

Ok

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

still buggy and glitchy

[ABizzel1]

Wrong, there are mods that take care of that.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

if me being wrong make you feel better good

[ABizzel1]

@Otaku

It doesn't make me feel, better but it doesn't change the fact that you're wrong.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

Where did say I wasn't wrong

[tee_bag242]

Bad luck for you then

[PersonMan]

Does this also improve the horrendous animations?

[LAWSON72]

No but there are mods like this that do
http://www.nexusmods.com/sk...
Anyways the animations are not that bad, I have seen just as bad if not worse in many new games.

[_LarZen_]

I tried using mods on Skyrim but I found myself lacking in skill to get it all up and running as it should.... :(

[Are_The_MaDNess]

not really that hard to do. there is just a few mods that is a must have and everything else is up to you.
if you have problems with load orders you can always try BOSS, and if you game dont start at all then you can do a test run with TES5EDIT.

modding is easier than ever with the Nexus Mod Manager and those two apps, not to mention the MCM menu system that loads of mods use now.

[HeavenlySnipes]

Just download the nexus mod manager

Sorts and installs mods for you

[Are_The_MaDNess]

also to note. it also backs up what files you already have in the game files aswell if a mod overwright it, so when you uninstall everything will be back as it was :D

also, the new BodySlide2 app is sooooo good, can make any body or armor fit any type of body standard with what shape you want XD

as i said. modding in skyrim is easier than ever.

[360ICE]

Looks like someone asked J.J. Abrams to up the textures.

[donnieboy]

That's stunning....

[DoggyBiscuit]

Holy s*** the graphics look like real life

[SirBradders]

This game is the reason why i bought my gtx770 with 4gb of vram and guess what ive maxed the whole 4gig and the game plays better, looks better and has way more content then the original which i already loved.
I wished all devs released there mod things for all their games because the fans always conjure up more content. I think the pc community would buy a hell of a lot more games of modding was even more so accepted.

[shuuwai]

My next card is going be titan, 3gig doesn't cut it with mod. -_-;;. I'm addictive to 4k images, but need a good 30 inch pc monitor -_-;;. I'm waiting for Star citizen, or another game like Skyrim that use these type of mods.

[Are_The_MaDNess]

actually, the game got a 3.1GB ram and Vram limit in the engine itself. usage cant be any higher than that or the game will crash no matter how few mods you have.

i am unsure if ENBoost makes you able to use more of Vram tho.....

[SirBradders]

There is a mod that enables you to use the full 4gb i don't remember the name but it's there on nexus.

[Are_The_MaDNess]

actually, that was integrated by demand from the gamers so bethesda added it in an update.

still with the 4gb limit mod that came out in December 2011, the game still would have a limit of 3.1GB.

the game would have used 4gb if it was a 64bit program. witch it isn't, so its using 3.1gigs no matter what you say.

Gopher talks about the subject here aswell: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

have tested this myself time and time again with the performance monitor. cant use more ram with it, but if you use ENBoost it will lower the ram usage by aton, since the standard game engine haves a copy of every texture and mesh in the ram aswell in the vram. with ENBoost it only uses what ram it needs without a copy.

[TomahawkX]

Nice to see the community still active and creating content/mods. It's a nice way to benchmark and push your hardware without having to buy a new game.

[aLiEnViSiToR]

Im playing Skyrim: Mods now... i love mods :D

[Wendigo987]

OMG , that's really amazing and stunning!

[Shad0wRunner]

I have a dream...

That one day, PS4 will produce games at native resolutions that match the resolution qualities of these mods. We may have to wait halfway thru the PS4's lifecycle for the devs to utilize the full potential of the hardware...but I believe it can be done.

I believe...

[SynestheticRoar]

Nice. They gave those characters sweet round bottoms this time. Good thinking.

[Unztayble]

I love how this website makes the scrolling of images very smooth. It doesn't load a new page for each. Very good design would definitely adopt it if I were to make a site.

[spike]

Skyrim = GAY

[MAULxx]

No, that is Mass Effect.

[SoulSercher620]

I'm guessing you know next to nothing about the game.

[MAULxx]

Skyrim stutters in first person on my HD7640G Laptop.

[LAWSON72]

OKay that is what happens when you buy a cheaper laptop with integrated graphics

[Lukebb91]

Why is alien is this

[DoctorJones]

Know not I don't

I unsure am are

[DxTrixterz]

Is there any kind of mod compilation for Skyrim like there is for Morrowind Overhaul?

[H0RSE]

Mods are why even games older than a decade, can still remain fresh on PC.

[dreamoner]

What a handsome cat... mods did that! Big cats should be scary.

[Trago1337]

Only possible on PC :)

[CAB1802]

The Grass and soil look very realistic
others are just, meh

[SoulSercher620]

Simply stunning pics

[MonkeyOne]

This is what next gen graphics will look like on consoles

Meaning the PS5 and the Xbox 4

thx bai

[JunioRS101]

i would like a mod to fix the clunky combat...

anyone? anyone?

[beatled]

this type of graphics is literally ps5 level graphics

you will not see anything like this;

http://www.dsogaming.com/wp...

on ps4/xbox1, they just don't have the power to render at that detail level

though maybe at a much lower resolution they could get close, 720p with a few effects turned off and it could be possible

[Shad0wRunner]

Yeah, the PS4 most definitely has the power, hardware-wise to handle resolutions of this quality. Theres nothing wrong with the "Hemi under the hood"...it's only a matter of the right developer utilizing every single drop of power the PS4 has to offer, and pushing it to its limits. That 8GB of RAM alone, will perform miracles for devs, not to mention the dual core x86 AMD Jag chip....dont sell the PS4 short. We havent even begun to see what devs can do with the PS4, just yet.

And theres no way you can drop the res to 720p on a PS4 and get anywhere close to these mods. Are you high? Skyrim runs at a native 720p on PS3, as it is...and looks nowhere near these mods. PS4 can do a full 1080p at a minimum of 30FPS, natively...and that MIGHT get you close to these mods, but like I said...theres developers out there, that will be able to match these mods on equal grounds, a few years from now on the PS4. Just have to give it some time.

[H0RSE]

It would take exceptional developing skills to utilize the capabilities of the PS4 to produce results like those in those pics, not just to be able to render at those resolutions, but more importantly, to have them at a playable/acceptable framerate.

Seeing as how the PS4's hardware is already dated and inferior compared to high end PC's (the hardware that runs mods like this) it would take nothing short of a team of developer wizards to achieve those results - if it's even possible.

[Ulf]

Article: "It’s not stretch to say that Skyrim modded puts to shame a lot of recently released titles, something that further proves the huge potential of Skyrim and how Bethesda did not take advantage of it."

Brilliant gaming journalists would make a game that would run at 30 fps only on machines running high end GPUs in SLI. "J"eniouses at work. The narrow-mindedness of some people is astounding.

[level 360]

I feel sorry in a way that Skyrim has also become a CGI modders wet dream to use the game as a porn outlet.

[SonyAddict]

Just downloaded this on steam for £4.99 running on my brand new gtx 780
and I got to say there is no need to mod this beauty of a game!.

[kingdom18]

This is why I need to get a better graphics card. I'm lucky to get 20fps on low with my integrated GPU.

[Dhuie]

Regardless of how good this can look, They need to fix the spammy combat, srs did anyone use a shield in Skyrim ? It needs a lock on like Dark Souls or something, anything to help improve the spam attack style of play IMO.

In Skyrim when you got a decapitation the same sound effect would play that was used in the V.A.T.S mode in FO3.

[SweetDangos]

These are graphics that Wii U, PS4, and X1 should have been producing. Next gen my ass