First post, I wanted to add my voice in the hopes that they will see how badly the problems with the PS3 version are..

When i first received Skyrim I was blown away. At least until the next day when my 4 year old fat PS3 (80 GB upgraded to 500 GB HDD) YLOD. It was on its last legs and was practically screaming in pain before I got the game, so I didn't blame the game. Got a new Slim 320 GB and started Skyrim anew

I've been playing for about 55 hours (11 mb save) with the 1.2 patch. Prior to the patch it was borderline unplayable After the 1.2 patch I was able to play for 2 or 3 hours before the lag would begin to kick in again. . Now it began freezing on the loading screen. I finally threw in the towel, went back to dark souls until they (Hopefully!) can straighten these technical problems out..

It's unfortunate because the GAME itself is incredible, when you can play it! I"m angry at myself because I should've known better after their PS3 track record. They need to build or license another game engine. I was angry when I found out their "new" engine is really just a (slightly) upgraded version of the buggy POS they've already been using for years. Creation engine? Yeah, creates problems..

I can say I will not buy another bethesda game unless it's a used copy in the bargain bin. This is coming from someone who has been a loyal customer since Morrowind. I feel like they should have treated their fans and customers with respect, instead of trying to hit a trendy release date!

Well I'm a first time Bethesda customer, and if the game craps out on me I'm going to be pissed off because I FREAKING LOVE THIS GAME!

I have experiencing freezing on loading screens. ive taken off autosave to stop the lag, and somethimes the game just crash and I have to reboot the PS3, My save has now 6.5mb.

about sixty-five hours on a 12 meg save unplayable so lame that i forgot how to use proper typing

This is my first post and i apologise to all in advance if this has already been reported, but i have scouring the forums and google and can only find a couple of vague references to the issue.

This glitch occurs after you take the quest Aftershock from Tolfdir at the College of Winterhold after obtaining the Staff of Magnus.

The problem lies upon reaching the quest destination, all i have is a quest marker pointing at the ground, there is no rift to seal, no magical anomalies to destroy and therefore the quest cannot be completed.

I am unable to verify if this occurred post patch as i was not that far along in the game when the patch was released.

Have any other PS3 users, or any experienced this bug? Anyone know a workaround? I have tried fast travelling back and forth, loading old saves, using my chracter to 'punch' the quest marker, used Staff of Magnus on quest marker, hell, i even took off all my apparel and ran around the quest marker naked, what do i have to do here to finish this quest or at least move it along to the next step?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1. I cannot get any of the quests from the Blue Palace in Solitude that are related to purchasing Proudspire Manor (the house in Solitude). I have 76,000 gold and REALLY want to purchase it! I see a note in Firebeard's pocket inviting me to Solitude but obviously, it wasn't delivered to me. Will it be? When?

2. Lagging not too bad if I let the system catch up and keep the extra autosaves cleaned up (free up HD space). I would have thought that Bethesda would have seen this coming after the same problems with the same engine in Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

3. I have had several game freezes, usually when trying to Wait.

4. Quests regenerating / quests not clearing off of the Miscellaneous list. e.g.: I cleared the Red Eagle quest line and accidentally read the book again. I appeared on my list again. Later, I killed a Forsworn and he had THREE of Red Eagle's swords on him so, I revisited the final location and converted them to Red Eagles Fury and the quest went away.

5. Even though I have collected the bounties from Skald, they never clear off of my questlist.

6. I have helped 3 people in the Pale and while doing so, the quest list was updating properly. I must have retriggered it because it now says 0/3.

7. I found the Lute for the Bard's College professor before receiving the quest. I delivered it to the person that was looking for it and received my reward. However, the quest to find it still appears on my Miscellaneous Quest list.

I don't know if it makes a difference but I am at Level 45 and have 467.57.53 playtime. I try to keep my quest list small by completing them before getting more so my saved game is 11MB.

Thanks!

A couple of more things:

1. I was walking up the Blue Palace in Solitude and randomly absorbed a Dragon Soul.

2. There seem to be more than the usual amount of Dragons at the College of Winterhold. I am Arch Mage there. I am now on Dragon #8 there and this is the 4th consecutive dragon in the last 4 trips there to dump off loot. Yes, 4 dragons in a row.

3. As a Listener in the Dark Brotherhood I just killed someone, Now, it says that I have started ". Well, I was already ON that questline! Now, it shows "The Dark Brotherhood Forever" in both my completed and my active quests.

I've experienced the loading screens ...... never loading ... its just smokey, music playing, and nothing loads ... i've had my game lag ... its frozen and I had to reset my ps3 ... i've experienced the disappearing mannequins ((idk how to spell it haha)) also i have a bug/glitch of this guy, outside of whiterun, by the stables, his name escapes me ... and finally the ever so comical backwards flying dragons ... it was funny, first couple of times ... where i didn't care about killing the dragon ... but now that i'm on a quest to kill on and its bugging out ... not so funny anymore ... so now, I'm at a halt because i can't complete this quest ... and i have some one following until its completed ... waiting until the patch to play it further haha

Okay, here's another problem that I have just become aware of: I cannot complete "Season Unending" which is part of the main storyline. Before this, I considered the other stuff as minor incoveniences (okay, not being able to buy Proudspire Manor in Solitude pisses me off) but this, this is MAJOR!

I have not selected sides in the Civil War yet. In "The Falen" quest, I am asked to talk to General Tullius and Ulfric Stormcloak but when I talk to them, I cannot get any dialog options related to setting up a temporary truce or getting them to meet at High Hrothgar. I can only talk to either of them about joining their side. WTH?!

My savegame file is about 7 Mb, and I have I found the following :

1) I get frame rate issues in Whiterun and Solitude.

2) Dragons don′t release the dragon souls.

3) Dragons usually ignore me instead of attacking me.

4) Random freezing problems, now more often (also the stuttering).

5) My character is drawn in one direction as if it were a magnet, I have even seen a dragon trapped inside a mountain and the mountain drew me closer and I got caught too.

I hope it helps.

12 mb here, lvl 61 playtime 240+ hrsas cording to save data (probably shave 30-40 off from being paused, think playtime still accumulates) game was highly playable, sure lag spikes at random times...more so with the glitches backwards flying dragon, think I finally slayed that beast thu. Now that I crossed into 12 megs on the save file its goin downhill. Lock ups when numerous hostile npcs are present (specifically guards) and about 25% of the time when fast traveling

save file 11mb, turned off auto saves

still laggy and locks up my ps3 once in a while. has froze on me 10+ times, and tends to happen when loading (like fast travelling or entering a door).
none of my other games ever freeze.

level 38...42 hour...8.2mb save data...the lag is awesome!what happen bethesda?

Hi.

Lv 33 - 42hrs - Save File 8.1meg
Cannot play for more than 10mins PS3 freezes and I need to do a hard reset.
Have tried all of Bethesda tips like turning off auto save and this does not help.
Even tried a new HDD as I thought my old drive might have issues but no it still happens.
I have now decided to leave the game until I see a new update released and that it has fixed the lag etc.

They must fix it surely, they can't just leave it like this can they?
(alot of people are saying that they can't fix it as it is a PS3 hardware problem not the game)

Imperial LV 49. 12 MB per save (>.<)
Just found a mission problem. Nowadays, a courier would come to me and give me a letter from a friend, which contain a location of a shout. I went to Dragontooth Crater and slay the dragon, ending the quest from the letter. After that and some time doing other quest, I went to Farkas to get a job and end up getting a Dragon seekers quest, I have to go to Dragontooth Crater and slay the dragon. I went there and find out there was no dragon. The marker was placed at the area where i kill the dragon. No remains, no dragon but the quest still exist and Farkar continues to follow me around. Can't seem to end the quest.

Level 42, game crashes within the hour on both my PAL slim and JP slim ps3's with the same 12mb savefile. Lag is worst in Whiterun and other busy settlements. Stopped playing to not put my ps3's through more unnecessary resets. Hope to hit level 50 and get the other trophies with new chars. Not a happy bunny.

Lvl. 33, 86 hours, ~9mb savegames. PS3 Slim with 250gb (original) hdd.
I don't have so much of a framerate problem (yet), it drops only after playing 3-4 consecutive hours.
But lately the game freezes all the time, partly moving around in the world, but mostly during load screens. I then have to do a hard reset and my PS3 is performing a file system corruption check. It has never done that before with no game i ever owned.
I stopped playing now, because i'm genuinely worried that skyrim might damage my system. Feeling like a guy that paid a lot of money to be a beta tester ...

lvl 58, 110h, 13mb save file
i have the usual graphic lags... drop frame rate ect... but i also can't wait! everytime i use wait/sleep my game freezes and i have to do a hard reset.

launch ps3. game save size around 13mb.

I had the lag start around 8mb. then, it just started freezing up completely in whiterun. to progress, I found some posts saying to disable all auto save options. I did that and was able to advance, but the game still freezes. without autosave I keep losing hours of playtime.

its the best game I have ever played but right now it is unplayable because it justkeeps freezing and causing me to reboot. I have never had another ps3 game do that.


really hope behesda fixes this, it is literally unplayable.

Joining the thieves guild, try to steal the ring, subsequently fail and caught by Riften Guards, Brynyolf says he might have use for me and meet him in the Ragged Flagon, he never shows no matter how long I wait.

My problems:

around 90 hours in, there was slight stuttering/slowdown but still playable, but then just before the 100 hour mark, consistent crashing.

My current save file is 102 hours 45 minutes. level 46, 8444 KB.
auto-saves have been turned off since almost the beginning.
Never had a corrupted save file. Never had it crash while saving.
I have 4 save games I cycle through every time I save.

But it crashes CONSISTENTLY. be it within 5 minutes of starting up, or 30 minutes. The crashes can happen randomly while running around playing, or at load screens.
I'll usually get 2-3 consistent crashes within 5 minutes of start-up, seems like certain areas, or running and exiting a city will result in instant crashes, until I reload my game, and then fast travel somewhere completely different, then the game will be good and let me play a bit. Then it eventually crashes again. Be it during loading, or just randomly while running around. Sometimes it's frozen during a dragon shout.

Also: even though I have EVERY auto-save option turned off, the game on rare instances seems to autosave anyways. This seems to be tied to specific areas in dungeons, that maybe the game thinks is a good time to save? I'm honestly not sure on why it happens, but I am definitely positive all my auto-save options are disabled. So it often scares me into thinking I have another crash happening, and then I notice the auto-save message at the top of my screen. I delete these auto-saves anyways.

It'd be nice if the game produced crash reports everytime is froze, so we could send them in.

main problem is the lag and frame rate drop after playing for 30 min and that is unacceptable. I am currently at lvl 42, over 88 hours in all guilds quests finished except companions and the main quest,
but the frame rate drop is a game breaker for me. all i want to do is get stamina to 500 and sprint for 5 minutes straight without a single stutter. Is that too much to ask???

Level 41, not totally sure on the file size but that character is unplayable. Ridiculous framerate issues and it freezes within 10-30 minutes of playing.

Level 50 About 90 hours in total, just past 12 Meg save file. About 120 GB free on a 160GB PS3 bought early last year. I thought I was one of the lucky ones with no real problems until I hit around the 9 Meg mark. At first, framerate slowdown issues in towns after about an hour of play and dragon battles. Then nearing 11 Megs, framerate drops happen much more quickly, after only about 15-30 min of play. Autosaves have been shut off. And the dreaded system freeze started occuring for the first time a few days ago. Now I am afraid to play this game as freezing killed my last PS3. Will probably play Arkham City until they (hopefully) fix this.

Level 40, save 12 mb, 58 hours of gameplay
i didn't have a lot of serious problems until yesterday
i became guildmaster of the thieves guild and got those two trophies
fifteen minutes i got my smithing to 100 and i received the trophy pop-up and two minutes later my game freezed for the first time so i saved and restarted.
so today i loaded my save and after ten minutes my game chrashed i restarted skyrim and killed a dragon found a standing stone, cleared a mine and mined some ore. i got throphies for that and when i checked my list all my throphies were gone except some i just got so i made a new save and restarted. then i looked at my thropies list and saw that i had all my thropies back again except the two for the thieves guild and the 100 skill one. i dont have any saves from before the final thieves guild mission but luckily my one handed is 90 so i can one of the throphies soon.
i also hate the enormous amount of lagging, i fall through sometimes and i cant turn in the left eye of the falmer at delvin mallory.
i hope it will be fixed because is an awesome game