Hey guys, my game has frozen twice here in the last few days. It hasn't done it at all until recently and I was wondering if any of you were experiencing something similar. I play on 360 and I'm up to about 80 saves or so with the saves overwriting the previous. Any help, insight, etc would be much appreciated.

I don't play on a console, but I remember hearing that for other Bethesda games, having a high amount of save files can do that. Try getting rid of some of your save files and then clearing the cache on your system. By clearing the cache, you will have to re-download any patches for the game.

I play on the xbox as well, am 170hrs into my first playthrough/character, never had any freezes at all except now when I go into the Companions guild building (completed the main companions quest, just want to do some of the minor quests) when I try and leave my game freezes on the exit load screen, every time. I haven't downloaded patch 1.2.

Edit - yeah for all TES and Fallout games I noticed that keeping your save files down helps with performance, no idea why

I save over previous saves though so I've only got my one save and then auto saves soooooo shouldn't it just count as one save?

It is not the number of saves that one has, it is how many times a save slot has been written over that is the issue.


It counts as one save. It also counts as the most dangerous way to play this game. First, saves that are written over and over and over again will corrupt. Plus, the game may glitch on you, going back to a save from before you got a quest is the best way to fix a quest glitch. Third, I can't count how many threads I have seen where the player had no problems other than painting themselves into a gaming corner and the only way out is to load an earlier save, and they can't. It has been this way since Morrowind.

Plus, turn off the Autosave features and never load an Autosave, ever.

I'm totally aware of the Bethesda game bugs, glitches, and freezes. I'm a huge Bethesda fan and have experienced these problems before. I guess its just that i'm enjoying the game so much and have but one save file that the idea of all my hard work somehow being haulted freaks me out. It's happened to me with Oblivion, Fallout and what not but I thought I'd see if others have ran into a similar problem and if they found a way to avoid/fix it.

Sooo...im screwed?