I've had a few minor bugs in the game, but it's all far from "gamebreaking".
It's to be expected with games with this level of complexity though, made for 3 platforms, of which one has a million different possible combinations of hardware and software (the PC). I'd like to see you do better than these 'idiots' at Bethesda.

I have played 120+ hours without any game breaking bugs, crashes or major glitches. Just some minor things as people sitting on the edge of a chair. The game is fine and has just been on the marked for 19 days so chillax

Bethesda's patches have to be approved by their respective consoles (steam, Xbox, ps3) before they can go live, and that takes about a week or more.

The game has its flaws and bugs that need fixing, ofcourse.

But it sure as hell isn't "broken".

I have everything maxed, and special eyecandy enabled via the ini files and the nVidia control panel, playing in 3D with a constant framerate of at least 30 FPS (That's 60 actual FPS, in case you aren't familiar with 3D vision) with a GTX 480 and a 3 Ghz quad core processor. My computer hasn't been "high end" for a while now, and I can still play just dandy, I think you should try a more user friendly platform like the 360.

I can go out and buy a piece of crap laptop for 400 euro with more ram than 2gb, dude. It's 2011, not 1998. And a pc game should be optimized for modern technology in general, like most PC games are. The whole pc configuration and endless possibility is a moot point because developers make PC games everyday with less than 1/3 of the issues Bethesdas game constantly have. And go play Oblivion vanilla, tell me how you like it. Then add the content from users (like me) and tell me the difference. We do what Bethesda can't, and we do it better.

You've got to be joking, or just blind. I have no idea what Bethesda is doing any more.

I have been building computers since before you owned one my friend. User friendly is not needed. Check the tech forum, people with twice the computers you have can hardly run the game on high. By the way im running with a GTX 570 which eats yours alive and on ultra settings in certain areas it drops to 20 fps because of poor shadow rendering and poor hardware usage

Not joking.

Pull the other one.


But no, you completed skipped the whole "official patch" thing. Again.

What are they doing in programming? They made a massive game world with hundreds of quests and a complicated AI routine for NPC's to follow, add in three types of crafting and hundreds of dungeons and that's quite a bit of fancy programing.

Modders didn't fix the 2GB thing. There's tons of ways to make a .exe recognize more than 2gb of RAM during use. It's old technology.

Yea, it took two weeks for their first patch, so what? That seems reasonable to me. One could safely assume that the more complicated a game is, the more prone to bugs it will be. This is a good example. I can't think of any RPG I've played that had any sort of complexity and was bug free, but if you can think of one, let me know.

That said, I haven't had any bugs at all aside from one graphical error that stopped after ~ a minute.

Im not really sure if you are supporting my argument or against it

More so than MW and OB, there are a LOT of console players for this game. Bethesda knows they can't rely on players to fix the game anymore. I'm sure there will be more patches than usual for Skyrim. Their general game plan was to only fix 'game breaking' bugs. But there are so many little things that PC players can fix with a simple console command, I really can't see Bethesda just letting the console players suffer since they bought a large percentage of the game this time around.

This game is amazing, sure its not perfect ... But to throw a temper tantrum over a video game that is arguably the best game Ive ever played.... You, sir, need to be punched in the face.

Seeing as the tech is so easily attainable by us regular folk, it is a wonder Bethesda was not able to incorporate this alien tech (discovered by modders) to make a game render more than 2gb of ram, in ANY of their titles so far. Hmmmm.

I am not arguing that it is not a good game. I am arguing the poor support, tech standards and thought process of the developers. What I find ironic, is that many of you who are supporting Bethesda are expecting official fixes to many of these issues over modded fixes. This just shows me how little you know the company in which we speak.

At the end of the day, if his computer runs Skyrim without issues, and yours causes you to run off at the mouth like a 5 year old, I'd rather have his.

"We do what Bethesda can't, and we do it better."

Holy hell man, knock it off with the massive ego trip.

Rage.

Epic.... Killer....Rage.

With your attitude akin to a 12 year old who's mommy brought home the wrong kind of candy, I hardly doubt that.

But thanks for proving my point. I can run the game just fine with my inferior hardware, so it's evidently a problem on your part, not bethesda's.

And there in is the issue, except it is not just MY computer. Many high end computers are having the issue. Which points toward poor programming and PC optimization. If you don't believe me, please feel free to check the tech forum.

No, dude, you really don't. Where's your game? Not out? Not even in development? Grunt code monkeys repair existing code. Senior programmers write it from the cornerstone. Put the boots on and do the walking, then you can yammer. Oblivion ran just fine OOB for me. Not everyone can plunk $800 down on a new laptop every year. MANY, MANY college kids, high school kids, and advlts are playing on +3yo bottom line machines NOT meant for gaming. Seriously, are you that tweaked that you can't recognize that not every gamer has the latest self build HW?

I'm kinda sad about this whole release aswell.. on one side I love the game (maybe thats enough and we should Please continue, my good sir.) on the other hand I see so many signs of laziness on the developers side. So I guess next time bethesda games wont be day one purchases... All we PC gamers got left are MMOS , oh well at least they entertain me to some degree.

Poorly thought out insults do nothing to support your claims either. Check the tech forums, it is not my computer configuration, its many high end users. I find it funny that I can play crysis on max smoother than a baby's ass, but this game gives my 500 dollar graphics card issues. But you are right it is Nvidias fault

What I think you should do, is consider- has buying skyrim made your life worse? If so, complain. If not, grow a pair.

I'm a modder too. We don't do what bethesda do and better. We each make contributions, some truely amazing, but all of which ultimatly pale in comparision to what they have created. We can fix what they did not fix- they probably fixed 20x as much as that before release. "we" (I dont want to include myself in your sweeping generalizations) improve the massive, expansive, beautiful world of skyrim to fix things, plug holes, and improve where we see fit. They have created something great from literally nothing.

Consider this. Take "you" (this mythical modding community you are uniting under your banner), put them in a room, and give them the budget bethesda had. You really think you end up with something as good as skyrim? For a start, boobs, boobs everywhere. Secondly, about 10 modders I have seen have created something balanced. I certainly cant. Thirdly... lets just say hole picking/filling is infinatly easier than creating.


Not normally the type to do a rant, but come on- pull your head out of your backside.

Why bother? I'll just find out the configurations of the "lesser" computer that your "monster" "can run circles around", and have no problems with the game instead of consistently whining about it.