Changing Timescale

[Neovalen]

Hey guys,

 

Has anyone played with changing the timescale in Skyrim? Is it safe to use to a certain point?

I'm finding the days to go by too fast while playing the game it's really breaking my immersion factor.

 

I set the timescale to 6 and what a difference... Seems about right game time vs real time. Took ~1 hour game time to go from Helgen to Riverwood and talk to Gerdur.

That would be 6 game minutes for every rl minute.

 

I just need to know if it's safe or not in the long term.

[frihyland]

Basically vendors will never restock and monsters will never respawn, and bodies will never clear unless you change their timers accordingly as well, other than that you are probably ok.

 

I change it to 60000 when I want to pass 31 days, I been forgetting to add that to the troubleshooting guide for a while now...

[skwareballz]

Try Dynamic Timescale which lets you set different timescales for indoor-outdoor-combat-non-combat. Comes as a book that you keep in your inventory. There is also a script dragon version too.

[Neovalen]

Basically vendors will never restock and monsters will never respawn, and bodies will never clear unless you change their timers accordingly as well, other than that you are probably ok.

 

I change it to 60000 when I want to pass 31 days, I been forgetting to add that to the troubleshooting guide for a while now...

 

Hrm, are you sure? I figure it would just take longer for these things to happen. Either that or you need to wait the appropriate # of days?

[LeetMiniWheat]

Also be careful, as this will also screw up a lot of mods that rely on time

[JudgmentJay]

I was wondering how this would affect primary needs-type mods. I checked Frostfall and it's compatible with adjusted timescales because it runs on its own timer, but I could see it messing with others.

[Neovalen]

I've found a few posts that say timescale change is OK for questing, etc until it goes below 5... after that it starts getting a little wonky.

 

I'm worried about it so I'll probably just leave the default but I really hate it. lol

[JudgmentJay]

I've run my timescale at 5 for a pretty long time with no issues, but your mileage may vary.

[skwareballz]

I've had a lower timescale than the default since Skyrim came out and have yet to have a problem with it. You will not even notice the vendors. What you will notice is the nights lasting a while longer since nothing is open to sell stuff, so you'll probably use the waiting function a bunch.

[Neovalen]

I've had a lower timescale than the default since Skyrim came out and have yet to have a problem with it. You will not even notice the vendors. What you will notice is the nights lasting a while longer since nothing is open to sell stuff' date=' so you'll probably use the waiting function a bunch.[/quote']

Or perhaps actually having a use for the inns and taverns of Skyrim. :)

[frihyland]

It all depends on how you play really, if you disable fast travel and waiting then there are some potential issues unless you are also sleeping regularly.

[LeetMiniWheat]

It all depends on how you play really' date=' if you disable fast travel and waiting then there are some potential issues unless you are also sleeping regularly.[/quote']

Potential issues with waiting?

[frihyland]

Probably not, it just totally blows immersion for me, like fast travel.

[LeetMiniWheat]

Probably not' date=' it just totally blows immersion for me, like fast travel.[/quote']

Yeah I never liked waiting either...