I don't know if this has been posted prior to now, if it has, I do apologize.. if it has not, here it is.

Before proceeding, please make sure you backup your saves on a USB Thumbdrive. I came across this a few months ago when my PS3 was experience seemingly random bouts of lag on several of my games. I have a lot of games installed directly to my HD and it seemed at the time that only those games, and the games that installed data to my HD were the ones that were lagging. In order to fix my problem, a friend pointed me in the direction of restoring my file system using the PS3's Safe Mode feature.

For full instructions on starting your PS3 in Safe Mode, please refer to this guide:
http://us.playstation.com/support/answer/index.htm?a_id=1488

I don't know if this will work for you, but I see a noticeable difference in gameplay from before I restored my file system (just a couple of days ago) to now.

It's a placebo at best.

We shouldn't have to jump through these hoops and come up with ridiculous "fixes" to play the game, the game should work properly from the start.

Yes, Lynx2069 posted this already.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1276175-solution-solving-the-lag-issue-warning-costs-money/page__st__40__p__19338021#entry19338021

Did your PS3 say you had a corrupt filesystem? Mine did, not sure if it's because of Skyrim.

Anyway, I am Level 26, 7.5 mb save file, 50+ hours and no lag so maybe there is something to it. I played 4 hours this morning with no issues.

That's not relevant. This guy played around and perhaps found something that could appease the masses until the patch comes. How about instead of trying to belittle his efforts with constant negativity, give it a whirl.

On topic: SnipeDragon, that's a clever observation. I don't have the FPS issue, but I also swapped my HDD not too long ago (2-3 weeks ago maybe), which forces a format on the HDD, essentially restoring my file system.

That's so true. I remember when the only hoop I had to jump through to play a game was talking my wife into loaning me the $$ to buy said game lol

No harm in trying it, do filesystem first then database, took 10 minutes total on mine. Pehaps this is the reason the people who swapped out their drives for SSD's have no lag too. Anyway, it can't hurt.

Exactly. It's at least more productive than making the same FPS/Framerate topics over, and over, and over, and.....ugh.

I restored the file system before I bought Skyrim on 11-11-11. So unless the game data has somehow corrupted I don't see this working for me. Well I guess I could try it again, no harm in that.

That's what angry children do.

Post if your PS3 says your filesystem was corrupt. I'm curious if it was just mine or if everyone is having that issue, and if Skyrim is the cause.

It said it was corrupt when I did it before buying Skyrim, but only took like 10 seconds to reach 100% completion. I did it just now, it took about a minute to reach completion.

Try it again, I bet it says this kind of thing every single time you use this option.

LOOK AT THE FIRST STATEMENT IT SAYS "MONTHS AGO" ENOUGH SAID

WE ARE DEALING WITH SOMETHING NEW, SKYRIM IS GROUND BREAKING AND THAT IS WHAT WE WANT TOP NOTCH GROUND BREAKING OPEN WORLD GAME PLAY....



.........MONTHS AGO........MONTHS AGO......AGAIN MONTHS AGO

It always says its corrupted

yep, if you restore File System it will always give you the "Data is Corrupted hit X to Restore" message, or something along those lines. Tried it on my brand new PS3 Slim just cause I was curious.

if the game becomes 100% completely unplayable for me, then ill give this a go.. i just dont think it will do some magical fix since i have a brand spanking new(under 2 months) old slim, the only thing i dL'ed and deleted was the driver demo..
but the main reason is i dont want to delete my install data since by some epic coincidence, the install data reads, installed at 11/11/11 at precisely 11:11am =]
but if the patch doesnt fix the issue, then ill rip the install data out of the ps3 with my bare hands and try this "fix"

For my part I only had visible lag in the menus (system menu and skill menu). Every time I would open one of the menus, any inputs would be unresponsive for up to 10-15 seconds which was very frustrating. I read somewhere about incompatibility with old Sixaxis controllers (first gen of PS3 controllers) so I went and bought a Dualshock 3 and guess what....problem solved, no more lag in the menus. As for in game lag, never experienced any so far after 40 hours of gameplay.