Quote Originally Posted by YoshiM View Post
Out of curiosity-how much of a beasty PC does one need to run this decently? I recently downloaded Oblivion and when it does a hardware scan it puts it to the lowest settings for my Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz system with 3GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD5700 series card with 700MHz and a gig of RAM running Vista (hush-it works). Bump it up to my LCD's native resolution (1440x900) with halfway decent texturing and it's chugging. Then I fire up Crysis and that thing runs smooth as butter with all the settings on high.

With that in mind, do I need something with more oomph or do I have to sacrifice a chicken over my keyboard to get Skyrim to run decent or would the console be the way to go?
Something's definitely wrong there, you should be able to max out Oblivion at 1440x900 on that hardware. I played it on a Core 2 Duo 2.4 with 2Gb DDR2 and a Radeon 4850. Update your Catalyst driver...

Skyrim is on my Christmas list. I've been replaying Oblivion off and on, and it's starting to feel a little archaic. As many times as I've played it, though, I still find new stuff to do. Makes me look forward to actually playing Skyrim more and more...