Skyrim launched to huge critical praise last week, but its arrival on store shelves revealed that the Xbox 360 version shipped with an issue that caused it to load low quality textures when installed to the hard drive. This put players in a precarious position of deciding whether better looking textures or faster load times are a higher priority. Now those that have a PC capable of running the game have another option.
Reddit user vw_luke discovered that Xbox 360 save files can be transferred to the PC. This is a rather unprecedented situation as the closed nature of the Xbox 360 precludes the transfer of save files, but Skyrim fans have concocted a method for transferring save files, but it only goes one way, Xbox 360 to PC. The process has been verified by many to work, and it only takes a few minutes.
Here’s the method:
Copy the save to your 360 Formatted USB Drive. Open with Modio. Click open from device locate the save file and open it. Click the file contents tab. Extract savegame.dat rename to savegame.ess and put it into your Skyrim save game location.
Modio (Reads 360 Formatted USB drives) - http://www.game-tuts.com/community/modio.php
There are many reasons for bringing a save over to the PC beyond escaping the Xbox 360 hard drive issue. The PC version potentially offers better graphics, faster loads, mod support and more.
Bethesda has said that the first title update patch for Skyrim will likely come the week after Thanksgiving, and a fix for the hard drive issue will likely be included.
Source: Reddit | Image: Dead End Thrills
