Constant console freezing and lock ups. This is happening far too frequently.

Aussie500 you are my hero. I am gonna try and follow your instructions on how to delete and reload items. Do you think I would be able to pickup from the last saved game or is that not an option as well. I soooo wanna Kick Miraak's scaley dumpus!!!

I picked up from my last save, I had just managed to get my main character stuck in some tomb with an endless loading screen. Having my second character also sabotaged with the constant freezing and slow motion play, and the third being so hopeless he was going to be up for the chicken of the year award, I finally decided I was desperate enough to go to the trouble of doing the fresh install.

The third character actually never had any freezing and the game only stuttered a bit with him, it was his woeful survival skills that made him unplayable.

There is a duplication glitch within the Severin Manor. If you place any of the Dragon Priest Masks you collect on the island upon the armor stands and leave, then return, take it off, and then leave and return again, the mask will return to the head part of the armor stand. This continues no matter how many times you take the mask off. Quite nice for selling the masks but annoying when I want to see the helmet I placed on the stand not the mask. . .

If jailed, player can not open up Grate in Bulwork Jail.
u red it az butt huh?

Um Neloth sent me to High gate ruins to obtain azra's staff but for some reason when I reach vokuns throne room, there's no way I can progress through because the gates won't let me through. Its worth noting that I already cleared that dungeon.

Edit: Is there a way to fail this quest? Because there is no way I can complete it. I cannot stand having quests I can't complete in my journal.

This is the place where we are still waiting for that woman to translate that scroll? Some maniac of an Orc sent my main character there for a book ages ago.

Take a follower with you, you climb up the mountain of rubble, use whirlwind sprint to get over to the platform where you left the room originally, that door is of course now closed, your follower will rush around the long way go through a locked door and should appear on the other side of the door. I cannot rightly remember if they opened the door automatically or if you had to ask them to, but you can get back in there.

I think the locations they choose for these things is random, if you save before asking for more to do, and do not like the location you got, you could probably reload your save and try again. I never bother doing that though. But it is something to keep in mind.

Since getting DB my game stutters all the time. Every few seconds while moving the screen stutters. Can't fix it tried to download everything again and clear cache but won't go away. I getting really tired of having to start this game over. I'm so sick of the first 10 hours of this game from repeated starting over from bugs.

Just reading the name High Gate ruins again was enough to make me want to cry. I remember spending hours in there, trying to figure out a way back into the second half of the throne room, when the Orc from the college sent me.
Thankfully using a follower to open the door is not very time consuming once you already know what you've got to do. Bad memories though, very bad memories.

It's extremely important to ask the follower to do something for you prior to climbing up the rubble in the first room by the way, or else it won't work, because once your follower has made his/her way up onto the platform too, he/she will tell you that what you're asking is impossible. So ask them first, and then head for the platform. Once you've reached the platform using whirlind sprint, quickly click on the chain behind the gate to tell your follower to pull it. If you aren't fast enough, your follower might end the conversation, so don't be discouraged if it doesn't work right way.
I had to ask mine 3 or 4 times, before he actually pulled the chain (he was just standing there, staring at me from behind the gate), but it works and is easier than using a plate or bucket to try and glitch your way in I think (I never really got the hang of doing that).

The first time it happened in my game, I experienced a frisson and wondered if I was about to be haunted....then I realized it was only a glitch. Bethesda should take note: They could create a whole quest around haunted mannequins.

I did this and it helped with the lagging and freezing...at least for now. It also seemed to clear up with the crazy issue I was having with the locks. So far, my lockpicking is back to the original way it used to work (thank goodness). I can only hope it lass and that it was some kind of weird download corruption.

It should last at least till the next DLC, hopefully the next patch they come up with gives a more permanent solution to the problem. Two of my characters were having issues since Dawnguard was released, the autosaving went with the 1.6 patch. The 1.8 patch fixed the lag and areas not loading problem, then Dragonborn brought them all back again with even more problems. The PC players have more resources than us, but then most of them also have the game doing a lot more with all those HD textures and mods, be interesting to see how they go at getting Dragonborn to run. I am thinking even with only Dragonborn and not the other two DLC's the PS3 players are going to have trouble without yet another patch, and they have not got the 1.8 patch yet.

It cannot do much for Bethesda's credibility with fans if they have to sign up to ask on the forum or contact support just to be able to find a way to play the DLC, would be nice if the next DLC actually plays without problems. And maybe they should ensure you cannot download the DLC till you have the updated version of the game, or at least give a warning on the DLC page you need to have the patch before downloading the DLC.


Putting that mannequin in the Soul Cairn had me going, the development team were definitely trying to haunt us with the problem there. I was a bit disappointed we could do nothing with the mannequin, I think they should have another shot at it and really give it the creepy feeling.

(I have previously stated this in a seperate thread)

As some of you may have noted, any bandit attacking you wielding a Nordic Greatsword will have this weapon incorrectly displayed as sheathed (on his side, like it were a one-handed weapon). I'm not yet sure if this also applies to the Nordic Warhammer. He bangs away at you in the same manner as using any other 2-handed weapon, but the weapon is not in his hands. This is a bit of a bummer and another weird minor bug to boot.

Freezing, crashing. Still not leveling up since Dawnguard installed, no experience being awarded ( I've been at level 54, midway to level 55 ever since I installed Dawnguard ). Can no longer get a follower.

To Bethesda...

Fix the invincible Hawks/Bonehawks/Terns... Would REALLY like to collect the Ingredients/Items from them again!!

Still no fix to-date... Hope someone higher-up's paying attention.


Nuff said??


Allrighty-then... Thanks.

Inside Fahlbtharz boilery, shooting the blues machine.
Every time I shoot the last 2, it never hit the target even it the target at the middle, the machine doesn't react.

Loading scene now take around 6 minutes.

Black Book WInds of Change

The scholar's insight perk doesn't work -- I still get only one point from skill books

I'm one of the many that cannot finish the fight with Miraak because I am absorbing the Dragon Souls. Bethesda please make a patch or provide some sort of remedy to work around this game breaking glitch!

Apparently you can create Stalhrim armour but I have no option to do so. My smithing skills is at 100 with all the perks. I looked everywhere and all I can do is improve the Stalhrim armour. And yes I have completed all quests in the Dragonborn DLC.
I can no longer take on a follower. I think this after I had the wizard show me to a blackbook in Dragonborn DLC.

i ran into a few bugs today on my 3rd playthrough. idk if any of these have come up

#1: the black book in the dwarven ruin of the main quest was not there but had an arrow pointing at empty air. reloading fixxed this after scaring the poop outa me
#2: iv noticed this on all 3 of my chars, all nords, idk if its a bug or just me but Frost Breath and Dragon Aspect Shouts sound EXACTLY alike to me. the are similiar in spelling of two words but i cannot tell the audible difference. Frost Breath: Fo-Krah-Diin// Aspect: Mul-Qah-Diiv. Miiraks shouts sound different than when i do them
#3: two of my chars have chosen the seeker of sorcery power from the black book (the spells cost 10% less/+10% better enchantments) one shows there enchanting skill at 110 and the other shows 100. both have 100 without any powers/clothes on. the one without the +10 showing still recives the spell reduction part, unknown if the enchanting is added and just not shown as 110 or not
#4: Ahzidals Boots show no difference in enchanting when equiped with the rest of its set. i get same enchantments naked as i get with full set equiped, i should get +10% with just Boots + another item right?

I should add that I have a long list of miscellaneous quests the I've completed and have yet to be cleared from my menu. About 12-15 I believe.

Two major bugs so far:

1) Since installing the DLC, my waterbreathing enchantments are no longer working / I drown as I would normally. Have tried re-equipping, different items, cache clearing, etc.

2) AFTER RESETTING my archery perks, Steady Hand will glitch out if put at 2/2. No problems at 0/2 or 1/2, but at 2/2, the zoom is incredibly slow and the arrow will ALWAYS fire as if the bow was not drawn completely. (i.e. the arrow only goes about 20 feet out). Bow becomes useless. Nothing I have tried fixes this glitch and I've tried way too many things to write it all down here.

This has made the game far less fun for me as I use nothing but a bow. 1/2 in steady hand isn't nearly as fun, but 2/2 makes the bow completely unusable.

Please fix my precious bow!

While attempting to start the quest needed to be able to create Stalhrim armor I discovered a key NPC, Deor the wood cutter in Skaal village was not in my game. I restarted Dragonborn DLC and he still was not there. I am not able to do the quest with out him.

Had the same problem. Fixed the issue with a few tricks.

-Turn all auto saves off. You'll have to get in the habit of hard saving quite often, or you'll regret it. For best results, I've had to keep save slots to a minimum of 2. But, since the game forces auto saves when I use a Black Book, I have to keep on top of those and delete them immediately or suffer the gremlins.

-Tell any follower(s) you might have to grab their [censored], and get lost. I had Serana with me for at least half the MQ before I got fed up with her acting weird and constantly bumping into me, just like Barbas. As soon as I dropped her off at home, the game stopped "hitching" and locking up all the time.

I'm having the same problem with Fanari-Strong Voice not being in the village so the quest isn't starting.

I'm also having trouble when trying to put Bloodscythe & Soulrender in weapon racks. They just keep falling on the floor.