Skyrim Special Edition Patch 1.1.51 Tackles Poor Audio Quality And Boosts Performance

 

Bethesda has pushed out a beta 1.1 patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition, tackling a number of key performance issues and quashing the sound quality problem which managed to slip through Bethesda’s notoriously creaky bug testing process.

In terms of the latter, Skyrim - Special Edition had sound quality lower than the 2011 original on both PC and Xbox One. This was down to over-compressing the audio rather than an attempt from Bethesda to de-master Skyrim, so you should now notice a boost in sound quality. Unless you’re gaming with a pair of tinny speakers that sound like they're submerged in the Mariana Trench.

Onto performance and Bethesda promises a general boost in frame rates and performance across a variety of hardware setups. In our Skyrim - Special Edition benchmarks we found it performed pretty great anyway though, and can even be pushed to 4K with comparative ease by some of Nvidia’s more powerful GeForce GTX 10 Series graphics cards.

Skyrim - Special Edition 1.1.51 Patch Notes

FIXES
General performance and optimization improvements
Fixed rare issue with NPCs not appearing in proper locations
Fixed issue with saves erroneously being marked as Moddded, even though no mods are active
Updated some sound files to not use compression

To grab this update you will have opt into the beta branch of Skyrim - Special Edition.

To do this, right click Skyrim Special Edition in your Steam library and select ‘Settings’.

Select the ‘Betas’ tab.

In the drop down menu select ‘beta - 1.1.51 Beta Update’

Close the window and the Skyrim beta patch will download. It’s approximately 945MB.

How have you found your first week with the Skyrim Special Edition? Have you got lost in Tamriel all over again?