Skyrim Graphics Mods

[Frag Mortuus]

I've recently gotten back into Skyrim after about 10 or 11 months of not playing. I got discouraged after my game save got lost. I use a program called GameSave Manager which backs up all of my game saves so just in case my computer crashes I won't lose my game saves. Anyway, it wasn't grabbing Skyrim, my PC crashed, I reinstalled Windows and used GameSave Manager to reload my game saves only to find out that Skyrim wasn't being backed up. At the time, I just didn't have the heart to start over after losing 90hrs worth of work.

Well, I recently got back into it and I decided to make the game look as good as it can. I followed some lists online about which mods were the best and I have really gotten my install looking beautiful.

Here are some screen shots of what it looks like:

















I was really impressed with what these modders have done.

Anyway, I thought you all may be interested.

[chupon]

Similar story here. Lost a ps3 save with ~ 60 hours.

I plan on starting again too. Love this game. To bad I have my graphics wouldn't look quite as good as that.

[J T]

Nice pics!

I've posted Skyrim pics several times in my screenshot thread. My pics were taken using the following mods:

Official HD Texture Pack, Pure Waters, More Grass, Lush Grass, Lush Trees, Better Dynamic Snow, HD Plants + Herbs, Kerplunk- Watery Rocks, Static Mesh Improvement Mod, Enhanced Blood Textures

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[Frag Mortuus]

Chupon: My wife is playing on the XB360 as I type this. I'm sitting in front of my PC with a big monitor in a chair from our dinner table with headphones. When I play my game it looks absolutely amazing. I look at her and she is lounging in the reclining sofa playing on a 65" TV with a pretty high end audio setup, but her game looks FAR worse than mine. I honestly don't know who wins,

J T: Those are gorgeous. I think they look better than mine. Are you doing any touch ups afterwards? Also, how do you remove the HUD? Lastly, what are your PC specs?

[J T]

J T: Those are gorgeous. I think they look better than mine. Are you doing any touch ups afterwards? Also, how do you remove the HUD?

Those are not touched up. I take the screenshots with the Steam client. The HUD can be removed by going into your Options in-game and setting "HUD Opacity" to zero. It's hard to play the game that way, but if I really want to grab some nice screens, then I'll turn it off.

[J T]

I first started to get into screengrabbing after looking at this guys amazing pictures of Skyrim:

http://deadendthrills.com/?cat=314

[Frag Mortuus]

Holy crap. Those are really great.

What are your PC Specs. Your shots in the Screenshot thread always looks great.

[J T]

DeadEndThrills stuff is totally amazing. He puts a lot of work into each shot. Sometimes with his games running at unplayable framerates for just the perfect picture. He uses a lot of custom mods and usually has access to the dev console commands. To be honest, I don't know how he does everything he does, but his screenshots are clearly some of the best out there.


My specs:

Lenovo Y570 Laptop:

2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM Processor ( 2.2GHz 1333MHz 6MB )
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 1GB
8 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz
15.6" HD Glare with integrated camera 1366x768