Good work!

finally, some good news! lol :dance:

(PC user, but woot all the same)

Yea way to many negative topics, thought I'd try to lighten things up a bit.

I'm having a blast and the game is fantastic. Minor issues for you PC users but I have a good feelings it's only because of a midnight launch. Everything will be fine in the morning.

That's good to hear. I don't get this game in for another week. If a patch or some other update comes on through XBL before I get my game in, does anyone know if there is a way for me to access and download it before I even get the game?

I ask because I have access to the internet right now for the week, but chances are I won't when the game comes in. And I won't have access to XBL for about 2 months.

I honestly don't believe you.
Bethesda has never releaced a game without bugs and probably never will.
See my post for more details. I have a really really fast pc and get sub 30 fps around npc chars because of the engine.

I don't know why you would lie, but I don't believe you.

Good to hear!

We're having way too many negative topics after the game launched.. It's only logical though because most people who have no problems are stuck to their screens at this moment

0 issues for you. Others have reported problems... I think though in general, the type of issues we'll see can be avoided by clearing your cache and avoiding overheating. I'm used to keeping that in mind from Oblivion and Fallout 3, and in my experience with those games, that was enough to avoid issues.

Should you clear your cache every time you start the game? just once? or every now and then (say once a week or month)?

It's strange because every reviewer so far complains about technical issues on the 360.

I think this has a lot to do with the fact that reviewers often play the game for hours at a time. The Xbox 360 has a history with overheating causing game problems after running for hours.

No offense, man, but the fact that your PC is fast doesn't mean a lot as far as how stable the game going to be. Is your configuration at all unusual? Any odd ffdshow filters set up or anything like that? That's where you're going to start having issues. They can't test every distinct configuration and oftentimes edge-case problems have to be addressed in a later patch after customer feedback starts coming in.

What I do on 360 is to clear the cache if/when it becomes evident that it needs to be done. Basically when the game is clearly not behaving properly in some way. In Red Dead Redemption, I found that I could sell an infinite number of deer skins; as long as I picked up at least one in between going to a shop, I could keep selling that one forever without losing it. Clearing the cache reset the invisible deer skin in my inventory. In Oblivion and Fallout, you should probably clear the cache if textures get really poppy or load times get really slow (for entering new zones, or for items/NPCs to appear, or for dialogue to start, etc.). If that sort of thing isn't happening, you probably don't need to clear the cache (though it can't hurt to do so anyway).

But what I do habitually every time I turn on the console is to hold A from the moment I power it up, to the moment when the system has fully loaded (which for me means the dashboard appears and I have the option to actually play the game). What that does is similar to clearing the cache; in fact I think it may be the same thing, but on a smaller scale. It deletes the old cache [for that game?] and creates a new one. Or something like that... I don't know the mechanics of it, but I do know that as long as I've been doing it, I've avoided bugs/glitches with Oblivion and Fallout 3, and load times and such have been quite fast.

tl;dr:
- Every time you power up your system, hold A until the dashboard appears.
- If the game is particularly laggy or things are behaving oddly, clear the cache via the dashboard and restart the console.

Barring a defective disk or console, that ought to be enough to keep you in fine shape.

Well, no two computers are alike. Apparently, Microsoft takes the same approach to console gaming. :blink:

Well thats good to hear from you. :celebrate: Thanks for lightening things up (:

haters gonnna hate. besides, hes playing on the 360, not a sh**ty computer. (no offence to other compuer gamers)

I have a feeling most users are having no trouble, PC or not...It's just their playing the game and not posting here.



Eh, EA games are renowned for bugs (Or were at least) yet I've never been affected by them...Remember that a lot of bugs tend to happen to a tiny minority of the players, but the majority who don't get bugs don't talk about it as much.

Yeah, well... the Xbox360 does have a serious issue, glitchy issue :3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-fyvlRHL4