

Indeed, modders aren't too impressed at all with Bethesda's approach to the art, suggesting that the original top-end assets have simply been put through an upscaling filter. To begin with, in terms of artwork quality, the remaster appears to retains the core ultra quality texture seen in the original release, but enhancements beyond that seem non-existent. The good news is that in virtually every regard, Bethesda has managed to bring the top-tier PC experience to the current generation of consoles and has indeed delivered the range of enhancements promised, but there are some limitations. To what extent does Skyrim Remastered offer an actual improvement over the original release maxed out on PC?

Secondly, after the release of only the most limited of comparison shots pre-launch, we really wanted to get to grips with the quality of the remaster itself. Our initial objectives here were pretty straightforward - we wanted to get a grip on PS4 and Xbox One performance metrics after the various issues that have befallen Fallout 4, not to mention the profound problems encountered in the last-gen PS3 release. Skyrim Special Edition is out now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.It's early days with our analysis of the new Skyrim Remastered, with work only beginning proper on the day of release. Overall, the remaster is more of an enhanced PC port for current-gen consoles than anything else, looking and running much better than the original release on PS3 and Xbox 360, but that's about it. Digital Foundry believes the remaster even leaves some amount of unutilised power on PS4, but not enough to get it to 60fps. Similarly, both versions offer like-for-like visuals, and as you can see above, they even stand up to the original PC version with max settings and 4xMSAA.Īs you can see in the video below, both versions offer similar performance as well, delivering a locked 30fps. On top of that, a temporal anti-aliasing solution is used, similar to the one found in Fallout 4. Thanks to recent analysis from Digital Foundry, we now that both PS4 and Xbox One run the game at a 1080p resolution. Skyrim Special Edition came out last week, but because Bethesda elected not to send out review copies early, we're only finding out now about the game's technical details. You can't go wrong with either the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One versions of the Skyrim remaster.
