After playing the game for between 15-60 minutes Skyrim completely locks up my PS3. To the best of my knowledge I'm running the latest patch and I'm starting to get worried that I've lost hours of game time, and it's getting worse. Sometimes after restarting the game my PS3 has to do a disk check to ensure that my HDD isn't corrupted...

It's pretty much as described under the "PS3 Crash" section of the following page: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Bugs_(Skyrim

Is Bethesda aware of this and are other people getting it? I can send Bethesda a copy of my save game if they'd like it.

Update: I can confirm that I am running 2.02 (downloaded on 28 December).

Some of these are spoilers so I suggest that you don't read it if you haven't played much yet...? I'm playing on PS3.

• My game has frozen several times. It has helped that I turned off all auto saves and deleted all corrupt Skyrim files but sometimes I still freeze.
  
• There are quest items that won't go away even though I have completed the quests. (ex. the strange amulet and rjorn's drum and whatever flute also from the College of Bards)
  
• (SPOILER) In Markarth, when I was thrown in jail... I broke out and assisted the Forsworn. I finished the quest and the Jarl admitted that I was innocent and he would clear my name or whatever. But the guards still always yell at me to stop. When I talk to them, I ask, "What's the problem" and they give me the old... gotta throw you in jail for murder and blah blah. If I choose "Ok. Take me to jail" it just loops infinitely with me starting over with the option, "What's the problem". (btw I have helped the Jarl and already became a thane and purchased the house so I'm on good terms with the Jarl). I don't like how they all hate me!!
  Markarth soldiers are constantly trying to arrest me. Before I could leave the conversation and they'd say, "I'll be on my way then." but now they attack me and I have to run away until there is no one chasing me anymore. VERY annoying since I cannot go to Markarth peacefully.
  
• (SPOILER) in addition to the last one... One day I went back to the Shrine of Talos in Markarth and three guards were there to "arrest" me again even though I already went through this. Basically saying that they're pinning the murders on me and they're going to throw me in jail. I have to fight them and then all the guards of Markarth are running after me even though the quest is over. (I have not verified if it always happens every time I go into the Shrine of Talos in Markarth). I can talk to a regular guard in town and that triggers the infinite loop of how they're throwing me in jail...
  
• (SPOILER) There are quests that won't go away. Like the Promises to Keep. I first told Maven that Louis wanted me to steal Frost. She told me to play along so I killed the guys at the lodge. I couldn't ever find Louis again so I stole Frost... I never see Louis again. I even tried reading up on it and some people said sometimes they find Louis in Whiterun Stables but I have never seen him. =(
  
• Just an FYI, I killed a dragon once and the body sank into the ground completely. I thought it was lost forever but it floated halfway up nearby and I absorbed the soul.
  
• I lost Lydia from Whiterun somewhere (I was running around on a snowy mountain and she disappeared). She's never returned home and she's not dead. (I checked the crypts). I don't really care about her though

Erandur Bug ... this guy dont put on any dress for mage, if you put for example the morokai mask... he puts the mask but nothin more... totally nvde, instead I put many robes for destruccion mage or even the archimage dress.
Sorry for my english =S

Also a problem with the german version

I'm having the same problem.
Currently level 52.....unsure of the number of hours, but the game freezes for me after sometimes 5 minutes.
Last night I was exiting the jarl's castle in riftin. Exterior loaded showing the town square....no sound....no movement.
Holding the ps3 power button would not turn it off, had to physically unplug the power.
Next power-up resulted in the hard drive may be corrupt message.
Bought this PS3 new less than 6 months ago.

Have never had any problems like this with any other game, including Oblivion.

Yep - that sounds exactly like what I have, although I am nowhere near the level you are. I don't like resetting my console constantly do have put Skyrim on the shelf until the next patch comes out. While it svcks for us both, at least we know we aren't the only ones experiencing this problem!

Hey guys, I am now writing my own bug list here hoping Bethesda reads. If tere is any official thread for this that is definitly checked, please tell me. I′d really like to tell the devs in detail, maybe send them savegames.... but this forum is missing a stickied thread for that, or a bug report form or something.

First off, Skyrim runs better for me than Fallout 3 or New Vegas; performance is good, when it becomes laggy a restart helps. And it only started to lag after I played a long time. I am now 170 hours in the game, but as far as technical errors go it′s still okay. Some freezes in the last 20 or 30 hours, but much betterr han F3 or NV.

I play on a European Slimline PS3 with 120 Gbyte HDD, not even half full. Auto saves all disabled, latest firmware and patch installed.

However, the logical bugs in gameplay are disturbing. To my 170 hours savegame you can add another 40 hours of replaying stuff because of quests not triggering correctly etc.

Here′s my list:

Imperial Legion questline

Mission: The Battle For Fort Dunstad
Problem: Your allies may not be present at the quest marker. The enemies you are supposed to kill are not present in the fort.
Solution: Visit the Fort before taking the quest from Legate Rikke. It will be populated by non-hostile Stormcloaks. Upon entering the Fort′s courtyard the quest will be triggered. Now kill all Stormcloaks, and then go to Rikke to officially accept the quest. Now the fort will have enemy Stormcloak soldiers and the counter goes down as you kill them.

Mission: The Battle For Fort Sungard
Problem: The enemies you are supposed to kill are not present in the fort.
Solution: After accepting the quest, go to Markath at night, sneak into the Jarl's bedroom and attack him. The quest will for some reason be finished then. However, you are not awarded the trophy, Markath will still be under Stormcloak control, and Legate Rikke will not give you your next quest. THIS BUG IS BREAKING THE QUESTLINE PERMANENTLY AND HAPPENED EVEN AFTER SEVERAL TIMES OF PLAYING ALL LEGION QUESTS LEADING UP TO IT AGAIN.

Thieves Guild questline

Mission: Hard Answers
Problem: Karliah does not leave the room after the final conversation, so further quests can not be done.
Solution: Just play the part where you bring the means to decipher Gallus' Journal again and make sure she walks away.

Mission: Trinity Restored
Problem: Brynjolf and Karliah are not at the meeting point, or are there but later disappear.
Soution: Immediately engage this quest after the last one, as both characters can disappear even after being there at first. If they are not there, the questline can not be continued.

College of Winterhold questline

Mission: Containment
Problem: The NPC Ranmir walks out of the inn into the enemy group unalarmed and is killed.
Solution: Killing all enemies before they kill Ranmir (hard t do as he has no armor and does not flee or defend himself) or reload until he does not leave the inn.
Problem 2: When not leaving the inn, it may happen that Ranmir has disappeared and can no longer be found.
Solution 2: Check the inn and the local shop's second floor to make sure he is there after battle.


Main plot:

Mission: Season Unending
Problem: If you are not yet in a faction you can not talk to General Tullius about attending the truce council
Solution: Since he only asks you about taking the oath, you can agree to join the legion and so open other dialogue topics with him, including the truce.

Mission: Alduin's Bane
Problem: After using it the Elder Scroll is permanently stuck in your inventory.
Solution: None.


Miscellanous:

College of Winterhold/Fetch me that Book!
If you collect the book "Glories and Laments" before acquiring the quest, the quest marker will be set on the empty chest it was originally hidden in and you will not be able to drop it or complete the quest.


College of Winterhold/Arniel's Endeavor
After heating the warped soul gem in one dwarfen convector, you will be told to heat it a final time in another convector. However, None of the convectors will heat the gem anymore.

Yngol Barrow
When trying to enter Yngol Barrow with a follower, the screen turns black, and all menues but the options are deactivated. You can still hear sound effects,but not leave the place again. This does not happen if you go in alone.

Louis Letrush
The NPC Louis Letrush respawns at the Whiterun Stables, possibly all 30 days. Multiple incarnations of him can be found standing there, sometimes inside the ground over time.

Greta
The character Greta in Solitude asks for an amulet in order to complete a quest. This quest is never finished even after giving her the amulet.

Finn's Lute
If you obtain Finn's Lute before being given the quest, you can still complete the quest but the lute remains stuck to your inventory.

Strange Amulet
Remains stuck to your inventory

Here's a list of some of the things I've encountered. I love the game but as these little annoyances accumulate I'd have to admit that it's kind of taking some of the fun out of playing the game. I do experience the slowdown and jerky mottion thing that has been discussed and I'll try some of the suggestions on that. These are pure defects as far as I can tell (even after applying the latest 1.3 update):

* I don't appear to get notice that there is an update available at the outer skyrim (triangle) menu. Once I deleted the previous update file it detected the 1.3 update. Seems like as soon as the update is available I should be notified.

* The more I've played the game the longer it takes to go through doors and travel. This is particularly frustrating when trying to get to the arch-mage room at the college and I have to go through three doors at about a minute each. It's to the point where I just avoid going there. This could be because my save games have grown to over 10 meg, though this is certainly something you would have predicted and tested so I'm not sure why I should mention it as an issue.

* I took the quest to help the companion Vilkis cure his animal blood (kodlak has long ago been cured) but as soon as I left Jorrvaskr and fast-traveled to the ceremonial location the quest failed and Vilkis was no where to be found...as if he had died and went missing. I went back to a previous save game and now no matter how many miscellaneous "jobs" I do for the companions I can't get Vilkis to give me that task again. Maybe it's random, but still...worrisome.

UPDATE ON VILKIS: Dammit this is aggravating. After I did about 30 jobs for Vilkis and Aola I finally had Vilkis ask me again to help him get purified. I say yes, he says "lead on," I leave Jovvaskr, he follows, steps outside the door for about 30 seconds, appears to change his mind or forget (if I talk to him I can ask him for work) and then he simply wanders back inside and the quest fails. I have reloaded and tried again and tried variations but the quest always fails (or rather goes into the completed pile without being completed). WTF!!!!???????????? So, if I can't cure Vilkis I can't cure Farkas, and therefore I can't cure myself.

* Beast Blood: I have to say, it was a huge mistake accepting beast blood. I have only used the transformation once and when I did in front of my follower (Aeola, another werewolf) to deal with some enemies, after the enemies were dead Aeola started attacking ME. So, kind of a non-power, worthless and given the bugs above I can't cure myself of it. Dammit dammit dammit dammit.

* "The White Phial" quest - I have all of the items except the Briar Heart because the quest insists on the Briar Heart from one SPECIFIC forsworn, who was killed in a previous visit. Now even if the guy respawns after a time and I take the heart the quest still does not recognize that I have a briar heart. I have to say again that it is weird and frustrating that only one specific heart satisfies this quest. And since I can't complete the quest the other three items for fixing the phial are stuck in my inventory as "quest items."

* I retrieved "Finn's Lute" and when I returned it to the owner for the end of the quest it was never removed from my inventory (weight = 4)

* Same with "Pantea's Flute" - wasn't removed from my inventory (weight = 2)

* Same with "Rjorn's Drum" - wasn't removed from my inventory on quest completion (weight = 4)

**** In the next patch if the above quests are completed and the item remains in inventory PLEASE allow us to take these ex quest items out of our inventory (e.g. our house, sell them, I don't care).

* Related to all of the bugs: I have to say I feel a bit cheated purchasing the PS3 version of the game since it doesn't have the console available on the PC that everybody with that version is using to fix all of these problems on their own. Why isn't a console available on PS3 and xbox? It's just a data editor yes?

* Just about everytime I enter Breezehome I get some person off the street following me into my house thinking I had engaged them in conversation. Eventually they leave but a few times this caused the game to freeze.

* I have now completed the "red eagle" quest about 3 or 4 times because I keep making the mistake of reading the book that triggers the quest. Done once should be the end of it.

* "Gallus' Encoded Journal" has been decoded and used to complete the quest BUT it's still in my inventory and I can't remove it.

More as they happen and I recall them.

Game won't let me "buy" shouts - I can't use dragon souls to "buy" words of a shout I've discovered. I have about 7 dragon souls and every time I try to use a soul to purchase a new shout it tells me I need a dragon soul to activate it, yet, I have 7 of them.

As it stands, I'm running around with the whirlwind shout and force shout that was given to me through quests. I'm sitting on a handful of discovered words that I can't use.

I'm playing on PS3, I'm level 25 and this is my only save and I hope they find a fix for this as I'd really, really don't want to start over. That will just make me "Hulk out".

Freezes and lag - As with many others I've hit the 7MB mark and lag tends to hit me pretty hard at Whiterun and sometimes in Solitude, I've disabled all auto-saves and only running the one save file. I've also experience a few freezes.

Falling through the floor - *minor spoiler* I've fallen through the floor in the dawnstar sanctuary after I've completed the Dark Brotherhood quest line and have purchased all the upgrades for the place. Walking over to the weapon rack from the bed in the master bedroom. I just walked off the side of the stairs where the podium for the gloves sits and went through the floor and landed in the underground cavern below it.

Also, sometimes when I stealth kill an NPC while they sleep they fall through the bed and I can't loot them. Particularly annoying if the quest requires you to take something from their body. The odd times if I stealth kill them while sitting down they will fall through the chair and be stuck there, thus, not allowing you to drag and hide their body.

Here is hoping they read these and in patch 1.4 I can use my other shouts.

Playing my Un patched thief save im playing un patched atm cause its the most stable version of the game for me i can use auto saves and it doesn't crash lags horrid though much worse then my saves on 1.3, but yea playing my thief and iv got to the point where i can trade in a piece of my thieves guild armour for a better one with tonallia, went to her to fence some stolen items and she automatically went into the armour swap dialogue only i dont have my armour on me and she tells me i need it, so i go home where i keep all my stuff (windheld hijerim) and i hunt high and low but cant find it anywhere, after i track back to the only two other places iv kept my stuff before i got a home and that was the dark brother hood sanctuary in a chest and the abandoned shack up near solitude again the key given to you by the dark brother hood in a chest and nope armours not there either, and i know i haven't sold it cause i never sell special armour so it appears to have completely disappeared along with a few books and other little items....."/ not good, so i go back to see if i can sell to her still and just bypass the swap armour and i cant i just get the continuous armour swap dialogue so iv now lost a fence that had 4000 gold, i know its a small bug but its very annoying

-Weapons racks in Solitude Home
-Men and women appearing naked

Well, at least that is not Bethesda′s fault. Sony And Microsoft don′t want users to edit any data, especially since it can be used to cheat for Trophies and achievements. This will most likely never change and no console game will have a way of editing such data available.

I randomly ran into Farkas and some other companions near the dragontooth crater. After I killed the dragon he comes talk to me, I tell him to fallow me. But now he keeps bringing up the dialogue box to stay/trade/leave ect, when i'm not trying to talk to him. I'll hit o and escape it but then he immediately does it again. I've tried different options and he still keeps doing it. Even if I tell him to leave me he'll still come up and talk to me like I asked him to. Only way to avoid this is to get as far from him as possible.

Anyone experience this? Getting on my nerves, might have to kill him but the companions might not like that much.

Best solution for such problems is reloading a savegame from before you met him. It is normal that you can meet the companions in the wild, but his behavior is not. I don′t even think you can kill him because he′s kind of important.

(PS3) *.*

- Items I place in my home are relocated to the floor upon reentering.
- Dragons fly into things often like the sides of mountains, buildings, trees, or nose dive into the ground.
- When I pick up items to decorate my home I have no way of spinning them around or manipulating them to any specific position.
- Items I pick up often continuously rotate, or will spin into an upside-down position while holding them.
- Followers such as Lydia will often repeatedly sit then stand in chairs while in my homes.
- Gear I give to followers to wear often wont be worn, or the follower will return to wearing their standard gear after being dismissed.
- Towns people will enter my home say random dialog then abruptly leave.
- Some weapons dont display properly when hung on racks and plaques.
- I cannot place multiple weapons or a shield on my plaques, like displayed in my Breezehome bedroom improvement upon purchase.
- Followers and even enemies are unable to climb or jump at all. Glitching them into things so that they cannot fight or follow.
- Floating items, people, creatures and buildings.

These are a few issues I encounter regularly. Thank you.

I have a new odd one .
While in Blackreach I started A Return To Your Roots , and picked up 3 crimson nirnroots . As is my habit , I placed them in my "quest item ingredient chest" when I returned home . A few days later I accidently emptied the chest while placing something else in there , and I noticed something strange . Even though I had 3 of the nirnroots , the quest updated onscreen and said I only had 1 . Now I know the game sometimes loses items like this ( namely the stones of barenziah ) , so I just figured no big deal , I'll just find 2 extra ones later .
Now heres where the wierd part comes in .
When I put the nirnroots back in my chest , the quest updated , and informed me that I was now -2 crimson nirnroots .
Yes , that's negative 2 , I didn't even know it was possible for the coding of the game to keep track of such an idiotic thing .

i so hope this hasnt happened to my thieves guild armour the stones dissapearing happened to my day one save i was missing at least one

There's a few problems I've encountered that have really made my day a rainy one.

I can't seem to complete the Thieves Guild quest because after finishing the first quest dealing with setting the bee hives on fire, my next quest won't pop up. No matter how many times I try to ask about the quest, nothing pops up. I cannot continue the Thieves Guild.

Second bug is not being able to have follower because everyone thinks I already have a follower with me... When I don't. Really frustrating when these NPCs tell bugged lies...

Another little thing I've noticed (not as bad as the other two, but still an annoyance) is that the items I try to decorate my house in Markarth with seem to not like to stay in the place I set it in. Every time I leave my house for en extended period of time, or go to sleep, or even just wait, the items are somehow on the other side of the room, or located in another part of my house. My wife and housecarl live there with me, but I don't think NPCs would be responsible for doing that to my stuff... Or would they?

And, of course, the occasional - getting more frequent - freezing on load screens, after load screens, or after a lot of continuous lag. It's uaully follower by my PS3 having to go through the check up to see if anything is corrupted on my HDD. Which, in turn, leaves a corrupted bit of data in my Game Utility folder.

Press square to unlock shouts.

I found Pantea's Flute before finding Pantea, and starting the quest, so now I can't give her the flute (dirty? ) and complete the quest.

Hey guys, check out the Xbox 360 section's bug list. Someone updates it regularly and made the first post a very complete, very organized list of discovered bugs as people post them in the thread.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1326952-xbox-360-bug-report-topic-v2/

Think we can do similar? It's probably a better idea, and can help bring to light in an organized way anything that's missed over there and anything that's more specific to PS3 than Xbox.

Anyone help with npcs hovering in mid air? And waterfalls looking like Stones In the distance?

Please fix the "Master Criminal" Achievement/Trophy glitch. Every non-english PAL-Version of the game is affected.
The UK and US-Versions of the game do not suffer this issue.

The statistics menu does only show the overall bounty. The bounty for each hold is missing.

It is impossible to get the 1000/1000 GS or the Platin Trophy due to this bug.

Since the UK and US-Versions don't suffer this issue, it cant be that hard to fix!

I also have the "archmage training" bug. Everything I try to buy training in says I have already trained 5 times at this level and need to level up.

Have you tried holding the action button and taking the books off the shelf by carrying them that worked for me