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Curio said:
Here I am :p Well my plans for an all-night session didn't come to pass due to a splitting headache I'd had all day :( So I've really only played through the first section and had a mess around with the settings to try and find what's "playable" on my system (in sig). I tried to get some screenshots but it doesn't seem to want to do it for some reason.....I'll have another try in a bit :)

I'm playing at 1024x768...

Firstly, I thought they said you could have HDR and AA together in this game? It doesn't let you - it specifically says you can't have both if you try and select them :confused:

To be honest, my machine wouldn't be able to cope with both on anyways. HDR looks very nice but, of course, it really hammers the frame rate big time. So I'm trying to decide if I want no AA and HDR.....or get rid of the jaggies but lose a lot of the nice effects.

So far at least, it doesn't seem to be a RAM hog. I'm getting no disk thrashing in large outdoor areas. Hope it stays that way.

It's difficult to say how it will run at the moment. I've only just scratched the surface - I might get into town and find the whole thing slows to a crawl as it tries to apply HDR to all the buildings. Also, I've only played at night in the game......with not many trees around......once I hit a forrest during the day and it has to start drawing shadows left & right it might also come to a crashing halt :D
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IGN were testing both versions today and they said this "Bethesda recently announced that the PC version of ES4 cannot have both HDR and AA, but it looked quite nice with just HDR Load times are faster on the PC, but the visuals are about equal. The 360 version of Oblivion does both HDR and AA"
 
I just tried an it said im not in a country that can download this game, did you make a new account when you orderd ? as I logged in with an old fileplanet login.
 
Chaos said:
I just tried an it said im not in a country that can download this game, did you make a new account when you orderd ? as I logged in with an old fileplanet login.
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Yes I made a new account when I ordered. I recommend you try doing the same since it is the only thing we have done differently.

I just read about other people having the same problem on the official Elder Scrolls forums. It won't let some people download it but for most it is fine. As you can see from my screenshot above it works perfectly for me and I entered all my details truthfully without lying about where I lived.

Try creating a new account when you purchase and see what happens.
 
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PeterNem said:
Personal profile for GordyR:

Rpg-playing fitness fanatic with some musical tallent thrown in for good measure!!

What an odd combination ;)
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LMAO... Thats one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. Sadly it's true too! :p
 
GordyR said:
Nope. Nowhere at all does it say it requires a US address.

I just clicked the purchase button, filled in my details (complete with UK address) to register my account. Then entered my credit card details, gave my correct UK address and voila. 3:53 remaining. :)
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I tried and it said in big red letters " you are not in a country that can download this game"

edit: sorry I just read your post about creating a new account

edit2: No luck, i registered a new account and it still doesnt let me buy it :( oh well have to wait till friday i spose :(
 
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dunno said:
I tried and it said in big red letters " you are not in a country that can download this game"

edit: sorry I just read your post about creating a new account
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Hmmm it seems more of you are having this problem. I know its no consolation but all I can say it that it worked perfectly for me without any glitches whatsoever. I entered my address correctly along with the country set to "United Kingdom" from the drop-down menu.

Here is another screenshot to prove I am not crazy. :p



I am behind a Router/Firewall but I doubt that should make a difference? Perhaps Direct2Drive is picky about the ISP's it sends files out to? I really have no answer, sorry guys.
 
Chaos said:
Made a new account and it didnt work for me, maybe your isp uses a US proxy or something.
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Not as far as I know, I am with BTOpenworld. Plenty of other people outside of the US have it working also. On the Elder Scrolls forum there are people from Sweden/Denmark/Norway and the UK who are having no problems whatsoever.

Here is one more screenshot showing that I was able to purchase the game and that the website has accepted that I am from the UK. I really don't understand why it isn't working for some of you.



Obviously I blanked out some of my details but you can clearly see it allowed me to purchase the game even though I am from the UK and entered my address accordingly.

Anyone else have it working?
 
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Personally even with this option available i would still rather have the boxed CE version, which i am hoping will be here thursday morning.
 
Iamzod said:
Personally even with this option available i would still rather have the boxed CE version, which i am hoping will be here thursday morning.
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I'll more than likely pick up the boxed version some time in the future when it's cheap. I too would much prefer the box and manual etc. But hey... If you want the game early then there really isn't any other choice. :)
 
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