Skyrim Special Edition - remastered Options

[Acadian]

I was intrigued by this comment by SubRosa in another thread:

I just saw a vid with Bethesda's E3 announcements. The Skyrim Special Edition is at the back. I hate to say that I am massively underwhelmed. I thought the game looked far better on the old systems. The new version looks like it is covered in a bright haze that washes out all the individual colors, and the clarity of the image. But maybe that is just the sunrises and sunsets, and not how it looks all the time.

I tend to agree with her initial assessment. Since the announcement, the BethSoft SkyForum is awash with opinions and speculation – more than I want to even try and follow.

I thought I’d create this thread as a place to comment on the remaster and, when the time comes, share impressions among those who try it and what is involved for those wishing to transition to it. I did note over on BethSoft that one of the moderators (Pluto) said it will be several years before another TES game is announced. So perhaps it is good to freshen up the current one. Looking over the list of enhancements though, they all seem to be cosmetic. Since my game looks fine as far as I’m concerned, my initial take is to not worry about the remaster – certainly not at this point.

[SubRosa]

64 bit is definitely a big improvement. A 32 bit OS cannot use more than 4 gig of memory total. So no game made with 32bit code can use more than that. While a 64 bit OS can use far more memory, and thus so could its games (assuming the games were coded in 64 bit). I have 16 gig of ram. Windows uses a bit over 2 gig. So I could conceivably play a game that used 14 gig of ram. That would mean incredibly high detailed graphics, physics, particle effects, no load times, a far greater rendering distance, fewer memory-related crashes, and so on. If anyone ever made a game that would use all that extra memory laying around. And I don't even have a lot of memory. When I built my current PC a few years back I could have gone with 32 gig of Ram for just $100 more. But I didn't see the point when every game around then was in 32 bit, and so would never use anything close to that.

This is something that makes following the Remastered Skyrim worth following for me. If it is truly 64 bit. Bethesda has a habit of lying after all. For example, Todd Howard claimed that Skyrim had a brand new game engine. When in fact it uses the very same engine that they used in Morrowind, just updated with more stuff slapped onto it zillion times over. So I would not take Bethesda's word that it is truly 64 bit. After it is released and people have a chance to really look at the code we will know.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 9 2016, 01:13 AM