Does this mean no DX11 or hi-res textures?

Consolized visuals confirmed?

DX11 probably will be out, it shouldn't though cause it runs better than DX9 when implemented right. High res textures? Oblivion didn't have them. The modding community will have it fixed and released within a week.

It'll probably be DX11 although I don't think that we will see tessellation or anything fancy (which sorta ruins it...).

Todd Howard of Bethesda was recently quoted in a Dutch magazine interview about the upcoming TES: Skyrim as saying: "We are working at pop-up issues, and we want to make sure that the graphics of the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 are alike. All three will look just as good, aside from the higher resolution and the anti-aliasing of the PC of course." In your opinion does this 100% rule out the possibility of DX11 and high resolution textures for the PC version? Or would you say this is not yet enough information to rule it out.CountChoculous

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PS3 version will be the worst as always, but its good to know Consoles are holding back the PC, they should have waited next gen for Skyrim

Lies

PS3 version will be the worst as always, but its good to know Consoles are holding back the PC, they should have waited next gen for Skyrim

HaloinventedFPS

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Lies

PS3 version will be the worst as always, but its good to know Consoles are holding back the PC, they should have waited next gen for Skyrim

-Unreal-

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If they don't somehow **** up modding for the game I'm sure the modding community will comeout with many great mods to enhance the graphics including a texture patch like they have for oblivion.

If they don't somehow **** up modding for the game I'm sure the modding community will comeout with many great mods to enhance the graphics including a texture patch like they have for oblivion.

DJ_Headshot

[QUOTE="CountChoculous"]Todd Howard of Bethesda was recently quoted in a Dutch magazine interview about the upcoming TES: Skyrim as saying: "We are working at pop-up issues, and we want to make sure that the graphics of the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 are alike. All three will look just as good, aside from the higher resolution and the anti-aliasing of the PC of course." In your opinion does this 100% rule out the possibility of DX11 and high resolution textures for the PC version? Or would you say this is not yet enough information to rule it out.Phazevariance

To get MSAA + HDR FP without hacks/workarounds on the PC, the game must run DX10 middleware. Xbox 360 doesn't have this issue since it doesn't run DX9c. Also, Xbox 360's DX9c+ shader constants/register count and shader program length surpluses PC DX9c's shader constants/register count shader program length i.e. it's better off using DX10 on the PC.

DX10's shader constants/register count and shader program length surpluses Xbox 360's DX9c+ shader constants/register count and shader program length.

PS3's RSX hardware has the same limitation as DX9's MSAA+HDR FP issue, but PS3 ussually has workarounds i.e. MLAA+HDR FP or MSAA + HDR Integer (via LogLuv encode/decode pixel shader program) combo. PS3 games like Killzone2 avoids MSAA + HDR FP issue by not having HDR. HDR LogLuv encode/decode consumes multi-cycle pixel shader resource. Programming RSX is basically like G70.

RSX's RAMIN data stores in little-endian format (same as x86 proccessor), while PPC is a big-endian format... It seems the RSX GPU was directly from the X86 PC's G70...

Workarounds for PS3 will work for DX9 PC e.g. MSAA + HDR Integer (via LogLuv encode/decode pixel shader program).

[QUOTE="CountChoculous"]Todd Howard of Bethesda was recently quoted in a Dutch magazine interview about the upcoming TES: Skyrim as saying: "We are working at pop-up issues, and we want to make sure that the graphics of the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 are alike. All three will look just as good, aside from the higher resolution and the anti-aliasing of the PC of course." In your opinion does this 100% rule out the possibility of DX11 and high resolution textures for the PC version? Or would you say this is not yet enough information to rule it out.Phazevariance

wow, i still remember when DirectX 8.1 was the new shiiznit and that DirectX 7 was the standard. oh how time flies by.....:cry:

wow, i still remember when DirectX 8.1 was the new shiiznit and that DirectX 7 was the standard. oh how time flies by.....:cry:

rawr89

Oldblivion was a good workaround for DX8.X hardware e.g. Geforce 4 TI. I was running Oblivion on ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro. My old Geforce FX 5900 Ultra was slower than ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro.

I thought it was 2011?

Who cares, mods will make this look better than anything bestheda is capable of anyway.Birdy09

[QUOTE="Birdy09"]Who cares, mods will make this look better than anything bestheda is capable of anyway.CountChoculous

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PS3 version will be the worst as always, but its good to know Consoles are holding back the PC, they should have waited next gen for Skyrim

HaloinventedFPS

Oblivion ran and looked better on the PS3 u know... :P