>>WARNING<< Game is a PS3 killer... : V

» Wed May 16, 2012 5:03 am

Game been lagging for a few days now but it hasnt put me off until now...let me explain

As usual it was chugging along (As it does!) and it froze right there when it was chugging..didn't think much of it I just thought was a normal freeze so I restart my PS3 and it beeps, gives me a red light then beeps and turns off again... even w/o the game in the PS3 it still doesnt work so im pretty screwed now huh? My PS3 has been off all day I just got in and I've only been playing for 20 mins today so it's not overheating

What can I do now other then get a new PS3 and rid of this [censored] game?

Umm and yeah im pissed

» Tue May 15, 2012 8:46 pm

I have to say, I wouldn't be so hasty to blame the game. Seems it was just your PS3 dying, it could have happened with any game. My old 40gb fat PS3 I've had for years does not chug at all with Skyrim, or make much noise.

» Wed May 16, 2012 12:08 am

Seems like this game is breaking tons of PS3's, actually... from day one people's PS3's were crapping out. There's said to be problems with many batches of discs, too.

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:26 pm

If you get a yellow light when you try to turn it on, your ps3 is dead.

And no games cause hardware failure. Your ps3 wont die just sitting there doing nothing, it will die while playing games (being used). Doesn't matter what game was in at the time, your system was going to die. People need to quit blaming what game happened to be in at the time as system killers...

Don't get me wrong I'm not defending Bethesda and their [censored] bug filled games, INCLUDING this one.

» Tue May 15, 2012 8:53 pm

I have to say, I wouldn't be so hasty to blame the game. Seems it was just your PS3 dying, it could have happened with any game. My old 40gb fat PS3 I've had for years does not chug at all with Skyrim, or make much noise.

Its less then a year old and I keep it clean and ventilated....

» Tue May 15, 2012 4:17 pm

my ps3 died after a day of extreme playing. but yeah, i dont think it had much to do with skyrim. i think playing such a massive game for 10hrs in a row just finished the poor old thing off.

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:25 pm

Its less then a year old and I keep it clean and ventilated....

Then you had a faulty PS3. It happens. Lots of people's PS3s die. Skyrim just happened to be the game you were playing when it died.

» Tue May 15, 2012 6:30 pm

Change your sig. Skyrim didn't kill your ps3. Use of your system killed your ps3.

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:44 pm

Yeah, change your sig. It is ridiculous how you have leapt to a conclusion like that. You are only guessing. Give me hard evidence that statistically more PS3s die when playing Skyrim compared to other games if you want to say that.

» Tue May 15, 2012 9:24 pm

Whenever a big game comes out, people claim it breaks there PS3/Xbox. In reality its a coincidence. Naturally a big game gets played more, so there is a larger chance it will break when playing a game you play alot

Nothing but coincidence

» Wed May 16, 2012 5:35 am

Running any machine at full capacity for long periods of time will wreck it. What's going on is the RAM isn't enough when the information its actively remembering keeps increasing (the current problem at hand until they patch it) and so it will eventually burn out your ps3. I imagine Bethesda may eventually have to pay for a few ps3's to be repaired, but this is also user error to a degree. It'd be like the time I rigged a pentium 4 to run oblivion. I was able to play it for months but that thing burned a hole through my video card but it was clearly my fault.

» Wed May 16, 2012 4:45 am

The game has an additional protective layer of coating on it that other games do not have. It was a manufacturing error, and it makes the game disc thicker and heavier, which the PlayStation 3 is not fully guaranteed to play without errors.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:31 pm

The game has an additional protective layer of coating on it that other games do not have. It was a manufacturing error, and it makes the game disc thicker and heavier, which the PlayStation 3 is not fully guaranteed to play without errors.

Where'd you read that?

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:08 pm

The game has an additional protective layer of coating on it that other games do not have. It was a manufacturing error, and it makes the game disc thicker and heavier, which the PlayStation 3 is not fully guaranteed to play without errors.

That was a troll post on Yahoo answers.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:48 pm

If its less than a year old then its still under warranty from Sony. Yeah you've lost some save data (unless you have a backup) but you won't have to pay for a new Ps3.

Sony, unlike another company I could mention replace their faulty products.

» Wed May 16, 2012 3:16 am

If its less than a year old then its still under warranty from Sony. Yeah you've lost some save data (unless you have a backup) but you won't have to pay for a new Ps3.

Sony, unlike another company I could mention replace their faulty products.

Hahahaha +1

» Wed May 16, 2012 4:58 am

Sort of odd that Fallout 3 was the game in my launch PS3 when it finally gave out and Oblivion was in the Xbox 360 when it RROD

Coincidence or am I lying? Its the Internets you'll never know!

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:08 pm

op, if i were u id back up as many saves from all your games as possible, sounds like what happened my 40gbphat during the bf3 beta, it didnt last more then 5 hours after turning itself off the first time...

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:15 pm

And the moron of the day award goes to.... :banghead:

» Tue May 15, 2012 4:38 pm

My iPod broke in Spain. Should I make my signature: "SPAIN KILLS IPODS BE CAREFUL!!!!!"?

» Wed May 16, 2012 4:46 am

My iPod broke in Spain. Should I make my signature: "SPAIN KILLS IPODS BE CAREFUL!!!!!"?

This made me laugh.

» Tue May 15, 2012 4:55 pm

Running any machine at full capacity for long periods of time will wreck it. What's going on is the RAM isn't enough when the information its actively remembering keeps increasing (the current problem at hand until they patch it) and so it will eventually burn out your ps3. I imagine Bethesda may eventually have to pay for a few ps3's to be repaired, but this is also user error to a degree. It'd be like the time I rigged a pentium 4 to run oblivion. I was able to play it for months but that thing burned a hole through my video card but it was clearly my fault.

Again, this is a valid concern due to the bug that causes the processor to be over-taxed. The bug is a system killer, the game is not. Only because you shouldn't run any system at full capacity for long periods of time. The lagging and such is just your system saying, "it's too much for me to handle". If this bug existed in the 360 and computer version, they would likely be doing the same thing.

Overheating it is also a concern (more heat is produced when a system has to work harder) because overheating damages computer components.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:16 pm

No game can "break" your PS3, however, some games such as Skyrim and BF3 utilize the Blu-ray laser more so than other games. The old Fat PS3's have been known for their Blu-ray laser to wear out. If you own a Fat PS3 and play these games, these games will have a higher laser demand and if your Fat PS3's laser was already on the way out, these games will only accelerate its demise. Get a new PS3 Slim! If you own a PS3 Slim and your problem is probably something technical and you'll need to send it in to SONY.

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:16 pm

No game can "break" your PS3, however, some games such as Skyrim and BF3 utilize the Blu-ray laser more so than other games. The old Fat PS3's have been known for their Blu-ray laser to wear out. If you own a Fat PS3 and play these games, these games will have a higher laser demand and if your Fat PS3's laser was already on the way out, these games will only accelerate its demise. Get a new PS3 Slim! If you own a PS3 Slim and your problem is probably something technical and you'll need to send it in to SONY.

???

Skyrim is nearly fully installed to the PS3's HDD. It almost never uses the PS3's Blu-Ray optical drive...

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:29 pm

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Skyrim is nearly fully installed to the PS3's HDD. It almost never uses the PS3's Blu-Ray optical drive...

Well it definitely was the case for me with BF3, blew out my laser on my Fat PS3 80Gig