Usually when my PS3 machine heats up, especially when I reach to 6-7 MB of saved data, I just put two large coffee/tea cups full of ice on top of the PS3. It cools the machine and keeps it running for hours. You can replace the ice in the cups when it melts to water. I would highly recommend to use tin cans (from canned fruits or vegetables,) since it cools the machine more and holds the mositure. I've done this a lot with other large-scale games and it works flawlessly for me. With Skyrim, there's absolutely no lag for me. Let me know if this works for some of you guys.

Edit: This isn't a joke. It is a practical solution that may or may not work for everybody. Use at your own risk.

And how many hours have you played and how large is your save game? are you saying its 6-7mb? try this when it reaches 9 and let us know if its still lag free.

So, for 60$ they must selling skyrim with annual stock of ice

Sure, if I play that far to 9 MB for hours before the patch comes in. Of course, it is a temporary solution. I have two character saved data. One is 37 hours with about 7 MB and the other one is 20 hours with about 6 MB.

The Ps3 has several fans and the CPU has several temp sensors. you shouldnt need to ice down your PS3, any more than you would put ice cubes on your car engine

Made an account for the pure purpose of responding to what is perhaps the most hilariously inane and inappropriate thread that I have seen thus far on this board. Actually gave me a chuckle IRL.

Let's just forget for a second that the idea is absolutely preposterous, and assume you've solved our problems.

Have you ever heard of condensation?

Perhaps I'll give you a little science 101;

When you have an extremely hot surface (doesn't even need to be extremely), and you place a hydrated, cool, object on this surface, water vapour evaporating off of the ice cold object, due to its proximity to a hot surface, consolidates (comes together) to form droplets.

Now, these droplets generally form anywhere the evaporative gas is capable of exploring (the water vapour is svcked directly into the Playstation 3's intake vents, and, incidentally, the PS3 has no water protective surfaces or coatings on its internal organs to prevent condensation on its various components),

We don't put icebags on our toasters to cool them down for the same reason we don't put icebags on our ps3's. Do it enough and the water vapour will short circuit and potentially mess up your system's sensitive components.

(And you may suggest that liquid cooling exists. I don't deny this, but it exists as part of an extremely fancy piece of tech that utilises water-protective coating and all sorts of insulation techniques to prevent the above process from occurring).

We don't toast bread for hours. We just let the toaster cool down without ice. It works great for me with the PS3 and I've used ice on it for 2 years when playing a large-scale game or when playing too much. It may work for some, it may not work for some. If mine breaks down, I will just buy another. Nice explanation, though. Here's a pat on your shoulder. Just try it and see, you'll never know.

lol this is simply hilarious...if it is written seriously, then just like the meme says:

I dont want to live on this planet anymore

LMAO

I will try putting my ps3 in an ice bath tonight and report back how it is working after a nice cool down. Thanks for the advice

This is a new one LOL

I've tried every hair-brained, half-assed scheme to play this game, a game that I've been waiting to play for years. Whats next submerge your PS3 in a bathtub full of ice water? Talk sweet to it? Convince it Kevin Butler demands it to play Skyrim?

/sigh

My PS3 is not overheating... at all. I know what my PS3's fans sound like in full gear and Skyrim is not inducing anything close to that. I repeat, this is not a heat issue.

I'm being genuine about icing the PS3. Maybe some people doesn't have their PS3 heating up when it comes to Skyrim, but it does for me as it did with Oblivion, Fallout 3/New Vegas, etc and icing it is my best solution that has worked for a very long time with no lag. Maybe it doesn't work for some people, but it's always worth a try and experiment.

Oh, and I wouldn't recommend putting too much ice or making it cold. Skyrim is cold enough as is.

The irony here is that ArmoredBird is (currently) more helpful than Bethesda are on this issue. At the very least he has given an interpretation of the problem, in addition to a well-meaning practical "solution", which is more than we can say for the latter.

Appreciate it, man. Thanks. Well, it is a temporary solution anyway until the patch comes in. But it is a great solution that I do use and will use for future games. But if there is a much better solution that cools the PS3, I would like to know.

I just stick a jacket on and sit in the fridge with my PS3 when I'm playing.

I'm at 7MB+ with no detrimental problems.

It has nothing to do with the PS3 overheating.

DO NOT PUT ICE OR CUPS FILLED WITH ICE ON YOUR PS3, IT MAY CAUSE DAMAGE

PS3's, keep out of reach of Children

You'd think people's, you know, common sense would be enough. Because this thread is so nuts, here's an owl.

So why are you here?

Wow I'm not sure whether this is actually a joke topic or not, but I sure hope nobody takes this suggestion seriously. Setting ice or liquid of any kind directly on the system is such a bad idea in so many ways it's not even funny. You might get lucky if you live in just the right kind of area where the general humidity and the humidity in your house cooperate such that the condensation doesn't build up quickly enough to do damage, but what you're suggesting would totally destroy a PS3 for just about everybody else.

Like I said, it does heat for me and the ice works for me and I'm being genuine about it whether you believe it or not. The only possible way for ice to damage it is if you get it melted and wet all over the machine, which is why I use good cups to keep the mositure in.

I think a little bit of pee-pee came out when i read this. I was already howling with laughter before i read this (thanks for the tip. at least he's trying... i'm looking at you Bethesda) imagining thousands of PS3's pulling of the feat of floating in bathtubs full of ice water while their poor, desperate owners,(us), willing to try anything at this point, are sitting on the bathroom floor feverishly try to play Skyrim while pleading with the PS3 to just play it. Please, please, for the love of all that is holy in the world, please play the game.

Then i got to the talk sweet to it and Kevin Butler part.

Then i saw the sig and had to run to my bathroom. I now have a leg full of pee-pee and a laptop full of cornflakes. Thanks dude, i needed that

Yeah because the moisture couldn't possibly get out of the cup any other way right (you know, like evaporation)? And there's no moisture in the actual air surrounding said cup (maybe like water vapor or something)? Even if you used an absolutely airtight cup you'd still be creating condensation on the outside of the cup and inside the system. I reiterate to anyone who actually reads through this whole thread, DO NOT TRY THIS SUGGESTION. Unless you have a few hundred bucks just sitting around that you have no idea what to do with and would just love to go buy a new PS3 system.

It's like an Xbox 360 promoter trying to get us to damage our PS3's or something ;P

Can a mod lock this thread and make it disappear to the confines of history, the last thing we need is people handing out information that has the possibility of damaging consoles with a supposed fix because at some point someone is going to be stupid enough to try it and the worst will happen.

Or you could put it in front of a fan or air conditioner