How amateurs can improve a game's graphics !

[egofree]

http://kotaku.com/5961994/what-skyrim-looks-like-when-youre-running-100-mods-at-once

It's really amazing ! 

[Darkstar2]

Yeah impressive - even more impressive if a new gen GPU can run this at single digit FPS too lol.  This is a glimpse of what future games will look like and the monster graphics cards required to run them, probably quad SLI on steroids, would barely struggle to render something playable

[egofree]

... the monster graphics cards required to run them...

With Moore's law, what seems terrific today, will be standard tomorrow and it will suck after tomorrow.

Back in the past, the following was state of the art and needed monster hardware : 

[Darkstar2]

But I disagree with TKG - those who make those mods are far from amateurs.  You need a lot of skill and knowledge of 3D, modeling, graphics, coding, etc, not something any "amateur" can do.

[TheExDeus]

The biggest impact was from all that grass, and the guy could run it at about 40fps with geforce 670. So it's clearly not that bad. I think you can run the game just fine on a top of the line 970. If anyone made 1 mod to create all that instead requiring about 30, I would try that on my 660ti. I'm sure it would run just fine.

Also, he has a youtube channel with many videos on modded skyrim. Right now he does use 970, but previously he had a 670 and still ran just fine (that is where the 40fps I mentioned comes).

[Darkstar2]

The biggest impact was from all that grass, and the guy could run it at about 40fps with geforce 670. So it's clearly not that bad. I think you can run the game just fine on a top of the line 970. If anyone made 1 mod to create all that instead requiring about 30, I would try that on my 660ti. I'm sure it would run just fine.

Also, he has a youtube channel with many videos on modded skyrim. Right now he does use 970, but previously he had a 670 and still ran just fine (that is where the 40fps I mentioned comes).

Well the 660Ti is obsolete by today's standards, it just does not cut it for newer games maxed out, I might have to upgrade GPU this year and get something higher up.  A well optimised game / demo would run fine on a 660Ti maybe not with ultra settings.
as far as the grass, I reckon somebody did that in a GM game, I saw something on YT, it was bloody impressive.
and btw 100 mods, not 30

[time-killer-games]

But I disagree with TKG - those who make those mods are far from amateurs.  You need a lot of skill and knowledge of 3D, modeling, graphics, coding, etc, not something any "amateur" can do.

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[TheExDeus]

I can still run every game I tried on Ultra with my 660ti. I have it on SLI now, so I get even higher fps. But even if I run on single card, I haven't seen a game which I couldn't run on ultra. I do run them usually without MSAA and on 1080p though. If you want 4k, then no card will be able to run some of the games.

The guy said he had only about 30 mods running at one time. But as he mostly makes screenshots, instead of videos, then he constantly keeps switching them and tuning them to get one great screenshot. That is sadly the problem with those mods. You will get few beautiful scenes, but many will look even worse.