I'm normally a PC gamer and I want the chance to get mods for Skyrim, but at the same time, I'm afraid of my PC chugging too much...I meet the minimum reqs at least.
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The box says "Online Gameplay not rated by ESRB", I should be able to trade my phallic named Wobbufetts to a bunch of 8 year olds. - MarvelousGerbil
If your PC at least meets the recommended specs, I'd go for it. If you only meet the minimum specs, then you're probably better off with the 360 version. The 360 version isn't as good as the PC version on medium to high settings, but it probably is better than the PC version on low settings, since you'll probably still be chugging at least some of the time.
Mods. Forget the other perks of owning it on PC, you also get mods. In a Bethesda game, specifically an Elder Scrolls game. There will be thousands of mods, and you're a PC gamer and you know that.
If you get it on the XBox 360, you're missing out in the long run. Although, you could wait a few years and get it again on PC. Or, if you don't care about mods, you can just disregard most of this post, although you would still be missing out.
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accord to Systemrequirementslab I miss on these levels
Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU You Have: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz
DirectX 9 compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1 GB of RAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon HD 4890 or higher) You Have: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670
How bad are those gonna hurt me? For comparison, I'm running Rage currently with some chugging, but not unplayable amounts.
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The box says "Online Gameplay not rated by ESRB", I should be able to trade my phallic named Wobbufetts to a bunch of 8 year olds. - MarvelousGerbil
Speaking of PC, can specs degrade? My dad's computer was awesome when we bought it. It could supposedly run Crysis at recommend specs. Now it can't run anything. I tried playing Oblivion on there the other day. The thing just kept chugging along, like every 2 seconds it would freeze for a moment.
I went all the way down to Very Low so everything looked like ass, but the thing was still chugging. How could it have gotten so bad?
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The box says "Online Gameplay not rated by ESRB", I should be able to trade my phallic named Wobbufetts to a bunch of 8 year olds. - MarvelousGerbil
Pretty_Odd posted... Speaking of PC, can specs degrade? My dad's computer was awesome when we bought it. It could supposedly run Crysis at recommend specs. Now it can't run anything. I tried playing Oblivion on there the other day. The thing just kept chugging along, like every 2 seconds it would freeze for a moment.
I went all the way down to Very Low so everything looked like ass, but the thing was still chugging. How could it have gotten so bad?
A number of reasons:
1 - Viruses and spyware are bogging down your CPU 2 - Too many useless programs are set to run at start up, bogging down your CPU 3 - Corrupted RAM etc
From: Pretty_Odd | #013 Speaking of PC, can specs degrade? My dad's computer was awesome when we bought it. It could supposedly run Crysis at recommend specs. Now it can't run anything. I tried playing Oblivion on there the other day. The thing just kept chugging along, like every 2 seconds it would freeze for a moment.
I went all the way down to Very Low so everything looked like ass, but the thing was still chugging. How could it have gotten so bad?
Defragging your hard drive might help. Also there's probably a lot more stuff running in the background, whether malware or legit stuff, much of which you probably didn't realize you had installed, eating up resources. Having very little free hard drive space can also give you performance problems, since memory can't be swapped.
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The box says "Online Gameplay not rated by ESRB", I should be able to trade my phallic named Wobbufetts to a bunch of 8 year olds. - MarvelousGerbil
Definitely PC, but I would not buy the game day 1. Hell, I wouldn't buy the game year 1. It's a Besthesda game. They're unplayable until there's hundreds of patches and performance mods so the game doesn't crash every 15 minutes. Console versions are not safe either. My perfectly healthy Xbox 360 ran every single game without crashes and freezes. Two hours of Fallout 3? 4 crashes and RRoD.
My PC can play it, but I'm getting it for 360 since I'd rather not have to bother with all the issues that come with PC gaming. Constant crashes, errors, etc aren't fun. Plus, big screen is better than my PC monitor.