I know, I am late getting to Skyrim but when I saw it on a recent Steam sale for 75% off I figured I should just pull the trigger and buy it.
Anyway, annoyingly when I have attempted to play the game I have been unable to make it past the introductory scene where you are being taken by horse and cart to a village to meet your fate. Shortly after going through the front gate the screen just went blank and my computer locks up required a full reset to get things going again.
At this stage, I thought this might have been my video cards getting far too long in the tooth to handle things (and I’ve not yet sourced a replacement video card). Compared to the latest generation of video cards my twin GTX 295s can muster only a fraction of the power on single card solutions with gigabytes of video memory at their disposal. I even tried turning down the graphics quality to no avail.
However, after a bit of tweaking with the video settings, I actually found that enabling FXAA (fast approximate anti-aliasing) solved the problem for me. Not sure why this is the case but I can only think that my video cards just can’t handle standard anti-aliasing so FXAA dumbs things down a bit to lower the required processing at the sacrifice of some image quality.
Not a big deal for me at this stage but certain if I want to play more recent game titles at 2560 x 1600 resolution in full detail then an upgrade will be on the cards at some point.
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