Tinkering with Skyrim

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A vast or significant amount of the 100+ hours I’ve spent playing Skyrim so far has been tweaking the game back and forth between playable and beautiful, often shifting many times every day. While messing with uGrids in the Gamebryo Engine can destroy save files and create massive instabilities within the game it offers some of the better enhancements to visual quality and is the actual limiter for many standard tweaks. uGrids are literally the game world itself, how much the of the game world the engine will actually render and calculate at any given time, broken up into ‘grids’ around the player with the default being 5 and playable being 7, though more adventurous users going for great still images opt for 13+ uGrid for what I can imagine is not so much a game but rather a crash fest.

Music Beta by Google

Coming from the standpoint of wanting to just upload all of my music to an online service and have it as mostly a backup solution, Music beta seems to do the job pretty well. It uploads quick offering threaded upload speeds for 2 songs at a time so getting my 4.7k+ song collection up there was relatively fast and as they were uploaded they were available instantly.