Seems that some modders have been waiting patiently for the release of the Creation Kit and Steam’s Workshop, as modder Arthmoor has just released a very promising mod for Skyrim. Open Cities Skyrim is a comprehensive project that aims to bring back at least part of the feel of Morrowind – specifically how most of the cities were a natural part of the world and you could just walk in without loading screens. The added immersion and realism goes a long way, probably a lot more than you might think. Continue reading Skyrim Open Cities Mod is one of the most promising ‘gameplay mods’ and is available right now→
Great news for all PC gamers and modders as Bethesda’s Pete Hines has revealed via his Twitter account that the highly anticipated Creation Kit will finally be released this Tuesday. In addition, Hines said that a nice ‘surprise’ will be included with the Creation Kit. What that nice ‘surprise’ would actually be? We’ll find out in a few days. Continue reading Skyrim Creation Kit is coming this Tuesday with a ‘surprise’→
At long last, the latest patch for RAGE is now available and comes with that promised upsample with adaptive sharpening filter. Moreover, this patch adds some new features and addresses various compatibility and performance issues. As always, the update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and you can view its complete changelog after the jump. Continue reading Rage 1.2 Patch is now live→
As promised, Bethesda has released Skyrim’s 1.4 update on Steam, meaning that it is currently available to everyone. In addition to bug and quest fixes, 1.4 adds launcher support for the Skyrim Workshop. Bethesda is currently putting the final touches on the Creation Kit and Skyrim Workshop and will be up pretty soon. You can view the entire changelog of this update after the jump and, as always, this patch will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client. Continue reading The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Patch 1.4 Is Live On Steam→
We bet that most of you are waiting patiently for the official release of the 1.4 patch for Skyrim. Bethesda promised to deliver both this patch and the Creation Kit in January and, as you can notice, the company won’t be able to fulfill its promise. No reason to panic though, as the PC version of the 1.4 patch will hopefully hit Steam this week, with the Creation Kit to follow. Continue reading Skyrim PC Patch 1.4 is coming this week, Creation Kit to follow; console patches coming at a later date→
It took Bethesda a while but finally, Skyrim has been re-compiled with some optimization tools and its 1.4 Beta patch comes with incredible performance gains over its previous version. In fact, Skyrim 1.4 Beta runs even better than Alexander’s awesome performance boost tool, SkyBoost. Yeap, Bethesda has finally redeemed itself and Skyrim performs the way it was meant to. We are talking about 16fps increase in most cases and sometimes, we can even notice a 30fps jump. That’s huge and shows how unoptimized Skyrim was in the first place. Continue reading Bethesda redeems itself with Skyrim 1.4 Beta; huge performance boost over its previous 1.3 version→
Modder Vergis has released an interesting mod for Skyrim that offers additional performance to it. As you may already know, Skyrim is CPU bound and Bethesda didn’t take advantage of multi-cores. In addition, the special effects in this game, like snow and rainfall, are rendered by the already overtaxed CPU and not your GPU. Therefore, Vergis reduced the textures in those particle effects, and witnessed a nice performance boost. Vergis is using an i5-750 CPU and saw a 5-20 FPS improvement. Pretty good huh? You can find the download link as a comparison shot, as well as a video from the game’s Rift area, after the jump. Continue reading Skyrim Performance PLUS Mod comes with a 20fps boost→
