Alienware M17x - Skyrim discussion thread

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Absolutely Rocks! :d

[TurbodTalon]

I am also loving it. It has incorporated all of the wonderful things from Fallout 3 and New Vegas with things that I loved from Oblivion. You can mine ore (WoW) and then build your own armor and accessories. This game has gotten epic and timeless written all over it. Dungeons in Oblivion consisted of running through and killing all of the NPCs or monsters, looting chests, and maybe finding something nice at the end. Skyrim has you stopping to mine ore and do all kinds of other things.

For those of you who prefer a more stealthy character, there is more than just hidden or visible. The eye shape around your reticule shows how close you are to being detected. It is nice to have that 'gray' area rather than just being instantly detected.

There are now perks, and an actual leveling path, similar to the Fallout series. There are also cinematic kills now too, also similar to Fallout.

The graphics are gorgeous, and you can run the game quite beautifully on almost any rig. I am currently on my Wife's laptop, and it has a 555M with a 2720 CPU. I can easily tune to run a constant 60fps on this setup, so those of you with more powerful computers will have this game looking absolutely stunning.

I love this game so far, and I can see myself draining many mindless hours into it.

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I am also loving it. It has incorporated all of the wonderful things from Fallout 3 and New Vegas with things that I loved from Oblivion. You can mine ore (WoW) and then build your own armor and accessories. This game has gotten epic and timeless written all over it. Dungeons in Oblivion consisted of running through and killing all of the NPCs or monsters, looting chests, and maybe finding something nice at the end. Skyrim has you stopping to mine ore and do all kinds of other things.

For those of you who prefer a more stealthy character, there is more than just hidden or visible. The eye shape around your reticule shows how close you are to being detected. It is nice to have that 'gray' area rather than just being instantly detected.

There are now perks, and an actual leveling path, similar to the Fallout series. There are also cinematic kills now too, also similar to Fallout.

The graphics are gorgeous, and you can run the game quite beautifully on almost any rig. I am currently on my Wife's laptop, and it has a 555M with a 2720 CPU. I can easily tune to run a constant 60fps on this setup, so those of you with more powerful computers will have this game looking absolutely stunning.

I love this game so far, and I can see myself draining many mindless hours into it.

ridiculously beautiful graphics, I just finished the prologue, even the introductory part is awesome, this game will be the game of the year again, bethesda did it again... just gorgeous...

reading books in the game have never been this fun, it is quite distinct from other games, you really evolve into something as you play, elder scrolls is something else

[JoeyFUZZ911]

I agree, its extremely fun and a beautiful game!

[Josh2]

This game blew my mind and not one person I have talked to hasn't liked it. It's once again showed me how great elder scrolls is.

[SlickDude80]

i guess i'm in the minority here when i say i'm not entirely amazed by the graphics. I expected more.

BUT, i am happy to report that the game runs completely smooth on my computer at ULTRA with nothing overclocked.

I dropped the AA to 4x cause i didn't think i really needed 8x

[TurbodTalon]

I think Skyrim's graphics make Oblivion's graphics look like a PS1 game. The water, the particle effects, the NPC facial expressions. I could go on all day. Skyrim with the Crysis engine...I would pay $100 for that game.

[johnnyman27]

best game ever!!!! i play the game 1080p all settings ultra with 2x AA,16x AF and FXAA enabled!!i get 45-55 fps.sometimes very rarely it drops to 30 for 1 sec.all stock 11.10 catalyst!!also there is a sharpness mod that makes game looks even better.
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11

there u are some in game screenshots with fraps(fps monitor was disabled )

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I think Skyrim's graphics make Oblivion's graphics look like a PS1 game. The water, the particle effects, the NPC facial expressions. I could go on all day. Skyrim with the Crysis engine...I would pay $100 for that game.

make it 200

[UnshavenBag]

Anyone experiencing really quiet sound? I have the regular audio (not xfi) and when pumped up to full volume both in game and master volume speech is barely audible. Using headphones works fine but they start to hurt after hours of wearing them haha.

So, all in all is there anyways I can boost the volume?