I'm approximately 60 hours into Skyrim for the PlayStation 3, with a file size of 8761KB, and I have reached a point where yet again lag and glitches are making the game unplayable. My lag, like many other PS3 users, became more prevalent around the 6MB file size and only continues to become worse. This problem is especially prevalent in the open world, with dragons & mostly within towns, specifically Whiterun where the game would slow to a halt right as I entered town, and caught up after a few seconds, again a problem that became worse over time. I encountered a major bug within, "The Break of Dawn" quest, which has made that quest unplayable. I don't want to put any more time into the game when there could be more instances like this just around the corner.

I also noticed that the larger the file size became, the longer the game was taking to load initially from the starting screen, and would do the same when I would try to save in game. I hit the "x" button and the game doesn't respond for several seconds, taking longer and longer to bring up the save menu. Now it's building up the the ten second mark and I know this will only become worse with time as well.

My assertion is that Skyrim for the PS3 is an inherently broken game, with glitches and bugs far worse than what can be patched. The more you unlock, the more impossible the game becomes to play. I had these very same experiences with Fallout 3 and these problems were never fixed. Once I hit about 13MB on Fallout, the game would lag to the point of freezing in the open world and made combat impossible.

I can't say for sure if it's just a compatibility problem with the engine running on the PS3, or if the PlayStation 3 just isn't powerful enough to handle such a massive game with ever increasing save file sizes. I can't imagine anyone not having problem with this game either in quests being bugged to where they are unplayable, or the inevitable lag-death that seems associated with Bethesda's games on the PS3.

I will say that all in all before I started experiencing these problems, Skyrim was one of the best games I've played in ages. Heck, I'm even going to get the game on PC once I can afford to upgrade.


I will not purchase another product by Bethesda for the PlayStation 3. Fool me once, shame on me and so on.

No, the PC version is already being bashed by the community as a POS. No amount of mods will fix it.

What a shame. Bethesda should be embarrassed. Now my textures are taking longer to load and the distance at which they load is getting smaller and smaller.

Probably a good choice. Anyone thinking the patch next week is going to fix the problem, just doesn't understand. It's a problem with the ps3 version of the game and the havok engine. It's the same problem that Fallout 3 and New Vegas has. This same exact problem, the same exact threads in the other forums about the same exact hopes that whatever patch is going to fix it.

It's not fixed for the other games, it won't be fixed for this game. If they could have fixed it, they would have years ago.

They have opted for option 4... just live with it. They have bilked billions of dollars out of this franchise and aren't gonna stop now. They absolutely know the problem. Anyone that doesn't get it, just needs to spend a few minutes looking at the issues forums on Fallout 3 and New Vegas here on this very site.

It is the same exact problem and back and forth that's been going on for years with these dispicable people.

Every new Bethesda product I gleefully grab up and just hope the problem is gone... it's always here and I have been dealing with the same bug for years. bogus.

http://www.1up.com/news/gabe-newell-ps3-total-disaster
Although his opinion did change with Portal 2.

A friend of mine has the PC version, hasn't had any problems like the ones I'm having with lag. He only had one problem with the house in Riften but other than that he says it's running fine.

The House thing and many other quest and graphic bugs/glitches are what they can actually fix and hopefully at least some of that will help with the frustration.


The memory load lag is here to stay.

the problem is bethesda wins and u lose

they get twice the amount of money from u

from delivering a poor quality product

and u have to pay twice the price to get a marginally better product which in the end the community will fix and not them.

i feel sorry thet they put u thru that!

You can thank Chris Avellone Obsidian Gamebryo for New Vegas.

I'm probably gonna do the same thing, at least by buying the pc version I can use console commands to restore my old character and just run through some quests.

Honetsly, I'm not willing to buy another copy of this game. Skyrim is a great game, but if my game should stop working at some point, then I sure as hell won't do Bethesda the favor of buying another copy for a different system. It's sad, really, especially because I own a 360 and could have bought the game for that in the first place. I kinda regret buying the PS3 version now, even though I prefer the PS3 over the 360 in almost every way...T_T

Blah blah blah, piss piss piss, moan moan moan.. Every other thread created here is the same damn thing. You lot should stick to one thread and keep all of your [censored]ing confined to it.

I did the exact same thing and went and got the PC version. I'm 30 hours in and all is good, no fps drops and the graphics are pretty sweet too From my experience the PC version is fine.

No... Bethesda needs to have their forums blow up with over 9000 threads about this one issue. I'm dead serious too.

And honestly this is just a start. They need to be publicly bashed and humiliated as much as possible for this kind of fraudulent behavior.

IF YOU CAN'T PROPERLY MAKE A GAME ON A CONSOLE DON'T MAKE IT AT ALL!

The issues with Skyrim are far worse than those of Fallout 3. I bought that game day 1 and bought every DLC for that game as they came out. It has hardly any problems on my PS3 and I've been playing that game since it came out (I understand others may have had issues, but with Skyrim nobody is fortunate to not have problems). The people saying that this is unfixable are mistaken. It is definitely fixable, whether the next patch fixes it or not is debatable. The problem definitely has something to do with bodies not clearing (they did in FO3) and how the game bogs up the memory of the PS3 and doesn't purge it.

If you have the money then why not. For the rest of us, we will just continue to grab our ankles, and let bugthesda [censored] us in our asses