My Hired Muscle quest is for Sevarios Pelagia but apparantly he is dead after the Stormcloaks invaded so I can't intimidate him.

80 Gb older ps3. Lv 29 playtime 65 hours save file sizes 11+ mb. Excessive lag experienced. It only occurs outside or in holds. Fighting dragons is very difficult and doing imperial or stormcloak missions retaking areas is impossible 1 fps is an exaggeration more like 1 frame every 3-5 seconds. In dungeons/shops/whatever its very smooth.

I was thinking about running out and getting a new ps3 figuring mine might be on its way out. But it appears people with new ps3's have the same problem.

Oddly enough the fan on the ps3 doesn't act like its running excessively hot like it did with la noire. The fan still has 2 steps till its highest speed during the lag. So I assume this is purely a software problem.

gamesas please fix this! I'm a loyal customer as I've purchased the entire elder scrolls series and fallout 3 and new legas. I love this game just wish it ran smoother.

I feel special my name was mentioned in the big list On another note is it possible to fix the frame-rate ourselves?

Wood Elf, USA, 2 year old PS3, Stuttering started at level 20/5mb, now in high 40's/9mb and it is game-stopping!

2 year old ps3, the game is starting to freeze and lock up now, forcing hard restarts.. turning the power off.. 3 times altogether today. Once with my charector, on my account, and twice in a 2 hour time span, on my wife's brand new charector on her account.. She is in the golden claw noob dungeon...

Getting pissed here....

the game is good, as a game, but as far as the integrity of the video game itself, its pathetic...

It handles like a amateur compared to the other ps3 games I have, as far as handling...

stop releasing these games like this man...


Not all consumers are svckers...

On a lighter note, I hope that patch fixes this mess man....

Reporting problems with my 9MB, level 35 character with 45 hours invested. Getting into large cities or riding horses causes a huge drop in framerate. Bethesda, this is not fun at all, I am very disappointed with how little care was taken towards development of the PS3 version.

I have a problem I've noticed with many other people as well. The quest "Blood on the Ice" does not properly trigger. I heard that it is because the cemetary scene with Susanna the Wicked dead triggers when the player first walks into Windhelm at night. That is not my problem, as Susanna is still alive. Viola keeps talking about "The Butcher" being around any corner, but that's the only thing related to this quest I encounter. I have read that if Susanna is alive, it is due to a bug that causes her to stay in Candlehearth Hall, safely avoiding the murderer. I want to become Thane of Windhelm by buying Hjerim, the house in which the Shatter-Shield woman is said to have been murdered. I can't do this, however, because the steward keeps saying "there was some... unpleasantness recently..." and to come back later. I have entered and re-entered Windhelm to try and trigger the cemetary scene, but to no avail. I would greatly appreciate seeing this in the next patch. Thank you.

Got the game today. I played for a little bit and it is amazing! Saved at the part where I'm going with this guy to speak his sister Gerdur. Awhile later, I came back to play Skyrim again and loaded that save. I was gonna go talk to him about some things and bam, glitched and frozed. Also, my save file is already 3MB?! I barely even started and already have a big file.

I just experienced this problem for the first time today. My save file is at 9.3 MB. I first noticed it after i beat Vilkas then tried to talk to him after, no menus would pop up at all. i figured i had to do something else and eventually just tried a different quest. So i moved on to the quest where you have to find the redguard woman. It let me talk to her but when i went to the guy in jail it wouldnt let me finish talking to him so i couldnt move on with the quest. After that i found out i couldnt finish talking to anyone which led to me not being able to finish quests or purchase items. This is very frustrating since i am 15 hours in! i also noticed that i didnt get a trophy for reaching lvl 25 or for getting a skill up to lvl 100. Im guessing that this is related to this bug. As for lag i didnt notice any until i got frustrated with the bug and killed everyone in Whiterun. As i was fighting the whole village, i noticed an incredible amount of lag but thought it was just due to the mass amount of people. I dont even know if i wanna continue playing this game even if they fix it.

Also i tried to buy a house and every time he says great heres the key but nothing happens, i dont lose 5000 gold and i dont get a key. And when i kill a dragon the body never disappears and i cant absorb the dragon soul

Level: 58
Locations discovered: 276
Quests completed: 90
Misc objectives: 260
Main Quests: 7
Side quests: 17
Playtime: 140 hours 21 minutes
Savefile: 15mb

Game was excellent when I bought it on release. But around the 7-8mb mark the game started stuttering and lagging like crazy. As you can see I've now hit the 15mb mark and the game has become COMPLETLY unplayable. It used to help to restart the Ps3 so I could play another hour or so, but that stopped working. Turning auto-save off didn't turn out to be a great option either. Not only did it not help it's very risky when you can't fight enemies properly since combat has the pace of a slideslow. Talking to NPCs is a pain when selecting an option to talk, it greys out but takes ages for NPCs to respond.
I get around 1-2 frames per 5 seconds and 1 frame per 10+ seconds when in combat, soundeffects of enemies attacking is delayed by up to 20 seconds. Loading times for fast travel (I clocked this precise) is always around 2 minutes and 10 seconds. I've also had several unlimited loading times where I just got stuck on loading screen forever with the only option turn off the power. And I've had 1 complete shutdown/crash when I traveled the world on a horse.

I've put up with the lag for quite some time, but I'm at the end of my wits now. Just can't take it anymore!

I registered just so that I could let someone know what is going on in Darkness Returns. I'm on a PS3 and when Nocturnal finishes speaking and it says to speak to Karliah and all I get is "Yes, fellow Nightingale?" Unfortunately, the only other save I have is many hours (or days) before this and I am now stuck in the room before putting the skeleton key in and unlocking the gate. I am stuck in the hole and can't complete the quest or get out. I do not want to have to roll another character and start over after getting to level 50. I hope that there is a fix that wll get me out of the hole.

Level 40, 70+ hours. Dragons sometimes can't fly right (backwards, spinning around randomly) Dragons sometimes can't land. Magic resistances DO NOT WORK. Patch did not effect framerate lag, but sleeping for 7 days in game did.

Hello,

I just write here to prevent the patch for PS3 does not solve the problems of freeze ... It's disappointing!
My backup is about 9 MB, I removed the automatic backups but nothing ...
Always bugs:
- The dragons
- Some quests
- The slowdown (freeze) => big big problem, game unplayable!!

Will the next patch is scheduled? Or should I sell the game?

thank you

Franck

lvl 31
70+ hours
8.8MB (down from 9.6)
Frame rate issues before the patch, but since the patch I've had my first freeze/crash (while talking to Mandanach.)
Also, many quests (lute, wolf queen v6, bards college) not responding
effing ridiculous.

Lv 33/32 56/60 hours- Brunwulf wont take the throne after windhelm invasion, Blood on the Ice quest wont allow me to purchase the Windhelm house

LvL 28
60h
1. Stutters! (although less) The funny thing is, Whiterun runs pretty good (for now, I recognized this is due to resetting the stock of the vendors) but the problems occur mostly in the wild and in towns/villages like Dawnstar.
2. The number of lock picks always shows 99+ (very very very!!! tiny text ... isn't readable from more than 1m)
3. I got dragons with their textures lying on the ground. The positive thing, they look pretty cool! The bad thing, they are not pets ... just dead. This is effecting dragons killed before the patch.

Rjorn drums remains in my inventory, breezehome bookshop shelf changed capacity from 18 to 13 in the high shelf (erasing my books) while the lower has remained 18. I can't use weapon rack in my house.

I am level 12 and currently doing the "A Cornered Rat" quest. Every single time I go to Riften, there's a couple of spiked lags. Especially the public market area.
I don't know if it's been like that or not but after patching 1.2 and playing for a few hours, the character models seemed to be downgraded a little. Their faces look all old to me.
A few audio lags here and there.

Another problem is the hud. I know that many of you have an HDTV but for me, I have an SD TV. Can there be an option to resize the hud or something?

I got the smallest slim and my save is nearly 10mb. I only updated about an hour ago and havent even tried yet however my game sometimes gets really choppy but only after my daily 7-10 hour constant playing. I think mines running better because Ive got over 77% free on my PS3, the only other lags is in multiple npc combat like city dragons but it pulls through.

I like to say something about the menu. Sometimes when I press circle, screen would freeze for about 3 seconds or so and then comes back to normal. That also needs to be looked into.

My file, at last check a few days ago, was 11+ mb. I had noticed some severe frame rate issues after extended play time. The most recent update seems to have helped with the frame rates, but not eliminated the problem.

Also, the last dragon that i fought today began behaving extremly eraticaly. After engaging with the dragon, it went into a spiral over one spot, then seemed to fix itself up. Only once it started to fly, it flew backwards. As in the dragon was facing forwards and moving backwards. If, and that is a very big if, it started flying forward again, it went into what can only be described as a fit. I imagine it would look like a drunk dragon, if i had ever seen one. It would then hover in one spot, but its wings would still be moving as they do for forward motion. Not a hover to voice attack, just stuck in one spot. It became untouchable to arrows at this point. When i came within a certain range, it would appear to teleport another hundred or so meters away. I finally gave up when it became a dragon shaped rocket and shot off over the nearest mountain

Yes same here, also as stated in my other post i think that the textures and shadows should be fixed as the game has lost that edge it had

fix weapon racks in homes!, I only own Breezhome, but the racks there dont work, and I heard people complaining about the armor stands too..,

1. Cannot use weapon rack in Breezehome

2. Having problems with NPC's disappearing after going through a door. First happened with Lydia in East Empire Warehouse, has also happened as part of the Daedric artifact quest in Dawnstar (nightmares?) where I have to follow some guy up to a tower - following the icon has me continually going in and out of the entrance door.

3. after the latest patch - I had trouble with a dragon not giving up its soul - this is the first time it's happened to me and I read the patch was supposed to fix this.

4. Forsworn Conspiracy - cannot complete the quest as the guy I need to speak to (Eltrys?) in the shrine of talos appears to be dead, he has 2 imperial guards standing over him though.

5. Wife "invisible" in Breezehome (intermittant). Syldja can't be seen anywhere but can still hear her speaking.

6. On occasion I've killed an enemy and they fallen through a wall or inside a boulder. Not been a problem as yet but paranoid it'll happen to someone significant and it'll stop me collecting an essential item from their cold dead hands...

Lag issue seems much better - I noticed a drop in my gamesave file from 11mb to 9.5mb.

game stats (if they help) 92 hours in, level 41, 9.5mb game save file.

Before the patch I just had minor issues with the game. After the patch the game froze totally 2 times within 1 hour so I had to restart my ps3. I really hope that another patch is coming again.