I take offooooooh shiney

Seriously, us ADD people pay attention to what we like, less attention to stuff we don't. Just like "normal" people. Stop with the incorrect stereotype, please. We get bored of explosions the same as everyone else.

/petpeeve

I had some sort of an error while installing the game from a disc ("STEAM servers are too busy to handle your request! Try again later."). Now it says the game is installed, but it's updating and says that the update is going to take 9 hours. Steam's properties thing says that the local files take 5740 Mb, but I can only find 270 Mb worth of Skyrim files in the Steam folder.

Anyway, could someone with more knowledge about stuff tell me if there really is a huge 9 hour download patch and it's normal that there's only 270 Mb stuff in the Steam folder, or should I delete the files and try to install from the disc again?

/edit: I removed the local files and tried to install from disc again. Now the "Steam servers are too busy to allow you to install a game from a physical disc you have to a physical drive you have" error comes before it even begins installing. Funny how it can apparently handle downloading 5740Mb of stuff, but can't handle a simple verification or whatever it's trying to do to allow using the disc.

It might be doing what some other Steam tethered games do - install only a few steam cache type files and then do the full install via Steam. I know that is what happened when I bought and installed Dawn of War II a few years ago [though in that case it installed ~5GB and downloaded another 5GB - which was basically overwriting the disc install :/].

For many Steam games on disk the disk is just to have something physical, the main install tends to be via the Steam client no matter what [a bad idea imo - especially in situations like this when steam servers are over loaded]. You could try changing your download server location [Steam Settings, Download/Cloud tab] to something either closer or a little further away to see if the load is less.

Seems kind of silly to make a dvd with 5.1GB of stuff in it just to make a program that starts Steam :|

I guess I'll try again a few more times hoping it'll actually install the damn thing, because if I have to download the whole thing, I'll do it someday when I'm really, really bored and just want to stare at numbers for a very long time (or alternatively have something else to do).

/edit: The installation process began on the 4th try. Now it's installing it from the disc.
/edit2: Downloading the patch at 2.6kbps. Yeehaaw! :p

From my experience with Fallout: NV, retail games are supposed to install from disc and update from Steam. Steam is not, however, a marvel of efficiency here...

So I'm having sound issues. The game is simply way too quiet. Even with my volume set at maximum. Some people are saying that using "Loudness Equalization" helps, unfortunately, I don't have that option.

If you think that was rude you're pretty sheltered.

Newest way to steal in Skyrim (that was kinda quick).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rt5aUdijAN8

So before I decide if I'm going to wait a year for this to go on sale or just not bother getting a question

is it actually fun this time? Don't get me wrong oblivion was OK but it lacked...something... to keep my playing...

Lol loved the steal video clasic

Can't honestly tell whether that's incredibly dumb or just plain awesome. I wonder what else can be easily broken/bypassed with this ..uh...'feature'.

Thanks for sharing ;)

Such a specific question that can be answered. Oh wait, no, the opposite of that.

Played another couple hours. Having a really hard time getting the mouse right but I think I got it now. V-synch forced on, shadows on high rather than ultra, mouse tweaked in ini file to remove smoothing and up sensitivity.

Anyway, I noticed a ton of old engine issues are still there. For example an enemy spawned in so far away that a story segment with him was missed because he was dead before I got there. That used to happen in previous Bethesda games too. Also the LOD pop-in is still pretty obvious when you're in a big flat area.

Loving the game though. It looks wonderful, the UI is fine if you can use a keyboard and mouse at the same time, the visual design is a million times more interesting than Oblivion's and the writing is much improved as well.

Happy.

*skyrim finished downloading*

Goodbye real world