thats 12 gigs! geeeeeeeeeze........i feel bad for people that still use the fat ps3.....

It's 12 megs, not 12 gigs.

And Blitz, now that I think about it I agree with you. I have played games where the PS3 fan kicks into overdrive. That is when my ps3 is overheating. For Skyrim my fan has been relatively quiet for the most part. The problem is most certainly the large gamesave files.

Yes, happend to my while i was playin LA Noire on my Fat80, ps3 fan worked so fast i thought it's going to fall apart, tomorrow bought Slim 160 and game went smooth as a breeze

Problem is in Bethesda who obviously doesn't test their game/port enough.

Hmm, I wonder why some PS3 users are having problems with this? I have evidence for faulty CD's, as someone on this forum told of how he [censored] his friends copy on his PS3 and it worked fine.

guys if you don't think your ps3 is overheating check this image.. bethesda even admits it
[img]http://s12.postimage.org/c7vrbfsp9/bethesda_email_ps3_lag.jpg[/img]

I got trolled for saying this earlier.

That's amazing. It's like they don't even realize that there have been frame rate issues on 3 (4?) of their past PS3 titles.

You know Bethesda, thats how they roll.

My Ps3 is inside a fishtank, the temp comming out the back as well as the temp of the unit itself has to be closely monitored or it heats the tank. As such there is a thermometer situated at the back with an alarm on it should it get to hot. I can confirm that the ps3 is far from overheating.

This problem is down to a mixture of a overlarge save game that the game utilises far to often (i.e every time it goes near another cell it checks the save game for anything that might be effected by past decision). and the significant memory leak thats plagued the PS3 conversion of gamebryo since its creation.

don't listen to that guy he's been trolling all the Forums for PS3 he's a 14 year old Xbox fan boy

I'm pretty sure my problems are not because of heating issues. I tried playing yesterday after my system had been off for 24 hours and had the same frame rate issues.

I will try selling items, but so much for playing how you like. It looks like my character just got mysteriously cured of his hoarding problem.

People seem to think that all PS3 users have this problem. People on those forum do not account of all PS3 users in the world, 95% of PS3 users are currently playing Skyrim with no problems whatsoever, myself and many others on here included, please remember that when you say Bethesda messed up the game.

I guess me and my friends fall in that 5%

My game has terrible clipping.

95%?

Interesting. Can you provide the source for that number? If I took every user on these help forums with issues, every player that doesn't know about these help forums with issues, and every player that doesn't care about help forums with issues. I can guarantee you that it would be more than a measly 5% of Skyrim owners.

And I have every right to say that Bethesda messed up the game when I can't even play the game, but can play my 30+ other PS3 titles flawlessly. I mean, even my copy of Dead Island runs better than Skyrim. DEAD ISLAND!

I'm getting sick of sounding like a broken record, but if you could include the game save sizes of you and your friends, it would be really helpful. Instead you simply throw out a random percentage. If your save file is not over 6.5 MB than your statement is moot.

Edit: Some people haven't experienced problems until over 10 MB, so it may take you longer, or not at all.

Have you thought about it being a faulty disk? Someone on here who had the same problems, they returned their copy back to the shop, got given a new one and it now works fine on their PS3. Having the game on auto-save also cause some lag. Also, watch the amount of save files you have. People seem to have like 50 saves, this is also a contributing factor. Someone mentioned overheating earlier on, also, the amount of time you spend playing the game may cause it. As someone who doesn't spend more then 5 hours a day playing the game due to work and Uni I may not have played long enough to experience problems.


My save file is over 8MB at the moment, most of my mates just started so their save files are under that. Some people here are over 10MB and have had no porblems. People have to realise that this forum is not representative of PS3 users, there's millions, and I am willing to bet that a huge majority have absolutely no problems.


I highly doubt it would pass 5% to be honest, just like the number of people who had problems with NV was low. Maybe people havent played the game long enough to have problems like I've mentioned, ot just that you have a faulty disk and got really unlucky.

Let's break these down, shall we?


That same user posted the next day later reporting the same problems again.


This actually does work! for about 5 hours.


And yet there are some that report having over 20 saves that work fine. Until their saves start reaching 6-10 MB and the frame rate issues kick in. After that, even having one save still produces stutters in gameplay.


There are users here that can't even play for 30 minutes, let alone 5 hours.



I understand that you're trying to be helpful, but none of those directly cause the problems with the game, nor are long term solutions. The game's engine just doesn't handle the PS3 well, it never has.


Except that there probably aren't even a million PS3 users that play Skyrim. There are millions of PS3 gamers, but not all of them bought Skyrim.

Update: I just loaded my save and the frame rate drops have decreased a lot since the last time I played... There are still a few, but nothing that makes the game unplayable. I will update if it get's bad again.

For information's sake, my chars inventory is nearly full with mostly lightweight things like jewelry and soul gems and I have a lot in storage at the mages college.

wtf? wow.

Fair enough, I guess some people get really unlucky then. Not much you can do really.

I started to get slight, but noticeable, lag in busy city areas as soon as I hit 5mb. I deleted my save games and went back to one of the autosaves and I have been running the game with no problems since. For what it's worth I'm 13 hours in, Level 13 on a Ye Olde 40gb fat PS3 which is completely full, with no spare memory.

PS Why are there so many autosave files? Seems odd for that to happen instead of just one file. I've got three for some reason?!

I think the multi autosaves is to prevent the whole "I'm in the final fight and I can't go back to an older save" fiasco from New Vegas.

Its strange isn't it? I took my game off auto save and I just have 2 files, one which I use and another as back up in case something goes wrong, and something DOES always go wrong. I've learnt my mistake from Rome:Total War where I had one game save where I managed to conquer Macedon, Greece and Egpyt in a week, then it got corrupted

Starting getting some framerate drop around 6 mb (25-30 hours), now at 9 mb save files and the game basically becomes unplayable after an hour or two. I'm afraid to play more and lose the ability to interact with NPCs as some have reported. Already experienced a few times where the game would literally run at around 1 frame every 3 seconds during dragon fights. Seriously. ONE FRAME EVERY 3 SECONDS.

I've tried several of the fixes such as turning off background processes for the PS3 and disabling all autosaves, but the improvements were only temporary. After a short while the lag always comes back.

I really hope this can be patched, but Bethesda's track record doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. In its current state, the game is just plain broken.

Does quit game counts as quitting to main screen of the game or quitting game entirely?