New to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. How to find Skyrim saves, where are the settings files and how to quickly upgrade your character.

Altogether, Skyrim is not such a difficult adventure, as most beginners imagine it. Having reached high levels of pumping, the player will be a mortal threat to all living things in the district. However, from the initial stages it will be useful to act as carefully as possible and as judiciously as possible.

Before starting the game

An endless stream of questions: “What are the system requirements for the game?”, “Save Skyrim: where are they on the computer?”, “How to optimize the settings?” still remain no less relevant than TES V: Skyrim itself.

However, in all the technical nuances and details we will understand step by step. First, let's determine the requirements of the game for PC components:

Secondly, some users after reading have doubts about the relevance of computer components. Questions about optimization are typical only for owners of extremely weak PCs by today's standards. The settings files are located in the My Documents folder, however, manually adjusting all the parameters to the optimal values ​​is an extremely inconvenient option. It is much easier to do this directly from the game menu - the result will be similar. In graphics settings at low performance it is necessary to reduce the items of shadow detail (Shadow Detail) and anti-aliasing (Antialiasing). It is they who most affect the quality of the picture and, accordingly, the performance of the game.

Concern for the integrity of your progress

Finally, we solve the problems with Skyrim save files. In which directory you need to look for the sector where the save lies - the most common type of questions. Nobody wants to lose the virtual achievements gained by hard work, so making backups will definitely not be superfluous. Fortunately, no one has ever noticed any cases of corruption of such files in the game from the day of release. Nevertheless, it is much more reliable to store an additional reserve of savings in a secluded place.

As in most games, such files are stored in a folder with system documents (in the same place as the user settings). However, on different versions of Windows, the path to this folder may vary slightly.

• For example, for Windows 7, the directory with Skyrim saves looks like this: * system drive *: \ Users \ * username * \ Documents \ My Games \ Skyrim.

• For Windows XP, this path will look a little different. The main thing is that the endpoint is in My Documents. Detailed route: * system_drive *: \ Documents and Settings \ * username * \ My documents \ My Games \ Skyrim
• You can use a simpler way: it is enough to find files with the ending “.ess” in the built-in Windows search engine - all Skyrim saves have this type.

Strategically Important Steps

Now is the time to highlight the gaming moments that every newcomer to the Skyrim world will face. Having solved the initial questions, for example, one of the main ones: “saving Skyrim - where are they in different OS?”, It’s time to understand the endless possibilities and dangers facing the player.

From the first call, the newcomer will face the problem of choosing a race. In fact, this is a banal question of tastes and preferences. Each of the races has its own advantages and it all depends on the familiar style of gamer walkthroughs. For example, brave Khajiit quite a few levels do not need weapons at all, which, on the other hand, inhibits their development. Fans of magic and spells are more suitable for the people of the Altmeri, who are famous for their voluminous supply of manna. In the heat of battle, the orcs will show themselves perfectly together with their berserk, etc.

Arms questions somehow come down to bow ownership. Two fairly powerful specimens can be found even at the beginning of the game. One (“called up”) is located near Ayvarsted, in Amol Fort. In this place there will still be a quest “Battle for Fort Amol”, therefore it is extremely important to act carefully, without violating the plot sequence. To do this, the player only cleans the yard to go down to the fort's prison compartment and find the spell volume located in the bucket under the lantern, on the right side of the two bookshelves. The bow invoked with the spell, by the way, is an adept level spell, which consumes a lot of mana - 186 units. Mages will be more comfortable with him than those with other abilities.

The other ("ebonite") is located at the Draugra military leader who will be waiting for the player in the Labyrinthian. Defeating it even at the lowest difficulty, before reaching at least 10 level of pumping, is not an easy task at all, so the first option is much simpler.

In battle, the player will need not only a deadly weapon of attack, which causes devastating damage to any enemy, but also high-quality armor that protects him from damage as much as possible. The easiest way to get more or less good armor is to join either the Dark Brotherhood or the Thieves Guild at the beginning of the game. If you prefer not to mess with these factions, while maintaining your unwavering neutrality, then you should pay attention to daedric artifacts because the Savior's Skin can be obtained even at the first stages of the game, and the Clavicus Vile mask is at the 12th level.

Finally, it is completely useless to stay in one place for a long time - only wandering through the expanses of Skyrim will a player meet a lot of opportunities to significantly improve his well-being: check the caves, defeat strong enemies and collect precious trophies.

Why live weak and helpless?

By the way, do not forget about maintaining Skyrim (where these indicators are located, we described above), since progress will not perpetuate on its own. It is also important to remember: it’s strong in “Skyrim” not the one who faithfully follows the storyline, as along a straight corridor, but that one, first of all, prudently builds a plan for his own pumping based on some gameplay tricks. And only then the player has every chance to get a battle-worthy character who is much more effective in coping with tasks and problems that appear as they progress.

First of all, use cunning tactics in battle aimed at developing certain skills. Having got hold of a shield, find a couple of enemies with two-handed melee weapons on open spaces, forcing them to attack you for several minutes. Thus, the skill “Blocking” will increase, so your chances of defending yourself and surviving in battle will be incomparably greater.

Make sure that the first city you get to at the beginning of your journey is Whiterun. Having reached him, go in search of the teacher of alchemy - Arcadia (for this you will need to have an initial capital). Having gained knowledge of this craft, you will have to rob it, taking lessons again. In addition to Alchemy points, the player will receive Pocket Theft points. It is enough to act on such a plan until reaching level 5-6, after which, finally, after paying Arkady, the funds allocated to her for pumping.

Iron daggers - the real gold mine. When mining leather with iron ingots, forge as many of these tools as possible. Having mastered the skill "Exile", you can enchant each of them with the help of any stone of souls, thanks to which the price tag of daggers increases to 3000 coins. Do not forget that in addition you also upgrade blacksmithing skills.

A more effective way to upgrade the skills of a blacksmith (as well as Alchemy) is to enchant at least 5 items of equipment in such a way that they give you a plus to these skills. This approach will give the player immediately a number of new useful features:

• You can create a superweapon.
• You can quickly implement the scheme with iron daggers.
• The player will be able to make expensive potions (3000 coins per bottle). Moreover, for each such manufacture, the player begins to be credited with 1 point in the skill "Alchemy".

For greater convenience, do not forget to give the enchanted items of equipment appropriate catchy names that will help you distinguish them from all other goodness in your inventory if you need to change clothes.

Magical abilities in the game are pumped extremely slowly, so take the time and opportunity to visit the College of Winterhold, talking with all the local inhabitants. It’s easier only to pump “Illusion”, everywhere and constantly casting spells “Muffled Steps” and “Invisibility” on yourself.

Parting words to each rookie

High levels of development in the very center of the storytelling is not a hard titanic work of zealous fans who are ready to give up a considerable amount of their life for the sake of pumping. In the case of TES 5: Skyrim, it’s a cool, clever calculation, subject to a number of tricks. It is this approach that gives excellent results, without requiring the player to sit at the monitor all day. Therefore, go for it by adopting similar techniques.

At the same time, it is also necessary to confidently understand some technical nuances, including the conservation of Skyrim. Where are the relevant ess-type files, which components are suitable for launching the game, and how to optimize performance in the settings - all this will be understood and mastered by any beginner in the first case.

But all the most important and interesting, of course, will be waiting for you only in the game itself.