The Elder Scrolls

[Perfect_Chaos]

alright so im probably late as shit on this but im playing skyrim on ps3. i read that around 40 hours in, the game lags like no other. to the point of it being unplayable. anyone else here having this problem on ps3??? im currently at 31 hours. should i be worried?

[Bluecast]

alright so im probably late as shit on this but im playing skyrim on ps3. i read that around 40 hours in, the game lags like no other. to the point of it being unplayable. anyone else here having this problem on ps3??? im currently at 31 hours. should i be worried?

From what I head some people downloading either DLC or a patch for PS3 made it go as low as 1FPS

[Perfect_Chaos]

From what I head some people downloading either DLC or a patch for PS3 made it go as low as 1FPS

i have the latest patch (1.3) but i have no DLC. i havent seen any problems....yet... everytime u save your game your save files become larger. when i i first started playing my save files were 1 or 2 MBs. now there about 6 or 7 MBs. and i read that the bigger your save files are the worse the problem get. i just dont want to get more addicted and more excited and more involved in the game than i am now and it be unplayable. that would suck! ide rather quit while im ahead.

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

From what I head some people downloading either DLC or a patch for PS3 made it go as low as 1FPS

i have the latest patch (1.3) but i have no DLC. i havent seen any problems....yet... everytime u save your game your save files become larger. when i i first started playing my save files were 1 or 2 MBs. now there about 6 or 7 MBs. and i read that the bigger your save files are the worse the problem get. i just dont want to get more addicted and more excited and more involved in the game than i am now and it be unplayable. that would suck! ide rather quit while im ahead.

http://kotaku.com/5875004/next-skyrim-p ... -lag-issue

Theres a patch incoming but it might make things worse, all the others have.

[AnimeGamer183]

as impressive as Skyrim seems, I have seen some videos that also make it seem completely fucking broken, so many glitches and buggy as hell. Regardless when and if I get it, it will be for PC when I actually have a gaming rig worth a damn, and when the GOTY version drops with the DLCs/expansions all bundled in.

[Bluecast]

as impressive as Skyrim seems, I have seen some videos that also make it seem completely fucking broken, so many glitches and buggy as hell. Regardless when and if I get it, it will be for PC when I actually have a gaming rig worth a damn, and when the GOTY version drops with the DLCs/expansions all bundled in.

To be fair no such thing as Bethseda game not full og bad bugs. I was playing Morrowind the other day and all the sudden a guard started walking in air above my head. Also watched an enemy walk into a rock with it's head poking from the rock and it's back legs from behind the rock and it's legs kept walking but going nowhere.

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

Skyrim is still worse lol. Probably one of the buggiest games I've ever seen, including proto builds.

i still love the game, but wow, some crazy shit happens

[AnimeGamer183]

like roarcopter, and even the glitch in the BEGINING SCENE... I mean its funny and im sure all the bugs are easily fixed by just reloading a file, making them not game breaking but I have seen so many that its like... this game didnt get thoroughly tested like it really should have, did it? Or just shitty code engineers? Idk but you would think after so many of these glitchy games they would try to put more effort into fixing that.

[Bluecast]

like roarcopter, and even the glitch in the BEGINING SCENE... I mean its funny and im sure all the bugs are easily fixed by just reloading a file, making them not game breaking but I have seen so many that its like... this game didnt get thoroughly tested like it really should have, did it? Or just shitty code engineers? Idk but you would think after so many of these glitchy games they would try to put more effort into fixing that.

I asked Manny this the other day. Turns out it's more simple. Great graphics are very expensive and this gen was so rushed. It's not like previous gens.

Then again Bethseda has always been like this. I enjoy Morrowind but sheesh they should have spent some more time ironing it out.

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

like roarcopter, and even the glitch in the BEGINING SCENE... I mean its funny and im sure all the bugs are easily fixed by just reloading a file, making them not game breaking but I have seen so many that its like... this game didnt get thoroughly tested like it really should have, did it? Or just shitty code engineers? Idk but you would think after so many of these glitchy games they would try to put more effort into fixing that.

Basically like I told Ryudo, good animation and textures are REAAAAAALLY expensive, this generally means a smaller budget for QA, thats generally the first thing a company will downsize and the last thing they'll attempt to replace. Its really sad but take a look at some of the sequels that have come out, generally if you load up the credits for the second game you'll see they employed less testers, and for a third game, you'll see less.

As for the bugs some yes some no. The geometric ones yea, heck most aren't even that big of a problem, but theres been a few instances of the game using 256mb of available ram, other times a quest character will disappear from the map which effectively closes that line to you.

Theres a lot of glitches that break he games in a lot of ways big and small, so depending on the error you might have to restart the game, so if they never get around to cleaning it up completely, keep rotating 3 or 4 saves.

[St. Elmo's Fire]

To be fair, the mask was my own stupidity, not the game just throwing it away for a laugh. Though for a while I was quite apoplectic about it.

Re: The bugs. I've only seen one REALLY bad one so far, where the dialogue options that should be there, aren't, so I can't get the "Speak to the Jarl" thingy off my mission list. Seen quite a few normal ones though, where collision detection goes funny and someone walks into a wall then appears on top, stuff falls off shelves when you walk inside places etc., but they're not a huge deal. I've had the framerate grind down a few times, for little apparent reason (there weren't too many special effects/NPCs kicking about at the time), but again, it was only an "annoyance" for a minute or two. If it did it all the time I'd probably fuck the disk up out of rage eventually though...

[Tuffty]

To be fair, with a game like ES, trying to find all the bugs and glitches with a dedicated QA team just can't compare to the millions of people who buy the game and play it. That's not to say a game should be released and have the public act as a QA team for an unfinished game, just that it is an inevitability that people within that huge group of players will encounter some glitches in a game of that magnitude.

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

To be fair, with a game like ES, trying to find all the bugs and glitches with a dedicated QA team just can't compare to the millions of people who buy the game and play it. That's not to say a game should be released and have the public act as a QA team for an unfinished game, just that it is an inevitability that people within that huge group of players will encounter some glitches in a game of that magnitude.

Most of these bugs aren't variable based, they're algorithm based. It means that its not the numbers that make the problem its the formula. Its inevitable that people will find bugs theres no way around that, but they should find bugs that come as a result of very specific errors. In this case, its not specific at all. Many of the bugs are easily re-creatable and hard to avoid, with varying severity.

It has nothing to do with ES being huge, its the mechanics themselves, they wrote a game without really testing the formulas that make it run.

[Perfect_Chaos]

im at 50 hours. my save files are 9 MB.....its laggin like A FUCKIN FOOL!!!!! and it just started out of nowhere last night. i already finished the main story so thats good (at least) the 1.4 patch thats coming out by the end of this month better fix the problem. fingers crossed hoping for the best but preparing for the worst...

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

lol like clockwork, atleast you saw it coming and got to finish the main game. Back up your favorite save on a memory stick or something just in case. An ounce of prevention and all that rubbish.