well I bought skyrim last week and still cant play longer than 3-5mins without bsod,I have tried every fix and wasted over ten hours and still, no luck, so i w agree I am extremely disapointed with this game. Skyrim described in one word, Unplayable

whats your pc spec?

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.111118-2330)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: G41MT-D3
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E6500 @ 2.93GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.9GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4094MB RAM
Page File: 2081MB used, 6105MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found

you should be fine, have you tried verifying cache files in steam? ive tried this game on my other 5 year old laptop and it works fine.

Bsod's can equal a hardware fault.

Maybe you're too negative.

Earning a lot of money from a product doesn't mean automatically becoming lazy or did not even attempt to improve this work.

Skyrim's eventual shortcomings are evident to all at this point,Bethesda included.

As you've said you haven't played Oblivion...well,i can tell you that it was almost the "same story" at the time and various patches were necessary to play the game almost "without problems".

And so for other past Beth games.

Bugs and glitches are to be expected in a game like this with a huge game world,hundreds of quest/npcs and a "Radiant Ai"..especially from Bethesda studios i dare to say.

Let me be clear: i'm not defending nor accusing them ; i'm just trying to be realistic and objective.

It seems to me that we have to read almost always the same topics here,and i don't really understand why someone feels the need to made public stuff like that.

If i'm disappointed with an entertainment product like this that will probably affect my future decisions about a company and perhaps i will never buy another of their games,or at least not at day launch..but if i'm played a 50-60 $ game for hundred/thousands of hours sorry,i don't really see any valid reason to complain in that "negative way" on a forum -apart from the already mentioned, and well knows- bugs and glitches that must to be solved.

p.s.For the record,if you google "disappointed with skyrim" you will find 2.180.000 results

but there only so much you can do, before giving up and hope for a new patch
yeah i tried it all windowed changed sound ran the three manual programs ,updated video drivers verified cache file three times
loved oblivion and would love to get past the start but ,given that the bug issue has so many viewed results i think this is a problem yet to be solved by bethdesa ,am currently talking to tech support so hopefully i will get to play this game,but ten hours playing around with no results is frustating this game is like beta software

cicero i agree given the size of the game that there will be bugs ,however from my experience basic testing should have discovered these faultss,I think the software was rushed but i really cant coment since its caused bsod forty times this week and that was before i could choose my character
this game will eventually destroy my hdd if i persist on trying to play it ,thats bad software. crashing to windows is glitchy software but at least it dosnt require forced rebboot

Search on this forum and the official blog if your bugs/glitches are really not yet resolved (have you any mod installed ? ) and eventually report your problem in the detail directly at Bethesda tech support.

Is the first time i hear such thing sincerely.

Bsod was/is a common Skyrim problem with Vista/Seven,but is not an issue which can't be resolved if i'm not wrong.

And i can guarantee to you that a game can't destroy an Hdd..an electric/power failure (or other things) can eventually.
Perhaps the Bsod is due to other software/hardware conflicts/issues,who knows.

Report the errors you have to the tech support in detail,is the only wise advice i can give you for now if you don't resolve with the common and know issues with Vista/seven. Also verify if your pc meet at least the minimum settings recommended to play Skyrim(but in this case the problems would have been others probably rather than bsod)

I would agree, if you were experiencing a bug that a significant portion of the playerbase was experiencing.

You seem to have a really unique situation, and though the bug is game-breaking, it's not something you could expect testing to find, since they can't test every possible PC configuration.

And that's the thing about PC gaming; sometimes you have to troubleshoot your problems yourself. Yet Google provides invaluable help even in those cases, i've never had so unique issue that no else has suffered from it

BSODs however mean bad things happening, Windows crashes itself to prevent damage being done to the system. It may be that the game is so heavy or uses hardware in a way that reveals faults in some components. Though software can cause BSODs too.

You pay $8 for 1 movie ?
At the drive in we get 3 movies back to back.
Sure there are people that pay ridiculous prices at the concession but we can take our own food.
Then there are the movies that I buy, typically for under $6., that unlike games are not used once then thrown away.
I have music and DVDS that I have had for decades, can't say the same about video games.
Granted in the past I have had a ton of fun with games but I have had a ton of fun doing other things that cost less money also.

Games are getting worse in general. They have more bugs, cost way more money, have a tendency to have poorly scripted endings that are obviously rushed to get it on the shelf etc
I played the original Morrowind trilogy and I still think they are better games considering the age of them.
Making a pretty looking game just does not cut it when by lvl 40 it is unplayable because it is defective software.

Problem is that we live in a culture of greed and laziness so these problems are to be expected I guess.
There is still no excuse for Skyrims lack of quality control and then having the neck to charge $60. for the product.

They could fix it and add free content for those that paid full price as a means of compensation.
That would only be fair would it not ?

We have to work for our money so why should they be an acceptation ?
Fix it or refund it is all I'm saying.

Games,movies etc. aren't primary necessity. Are simply entertainment product.

If you find that this product is "broken" you can eventually ask for a refund at the store where you have purchased it - but not after that you've played it for hundreds/thousands of hours of course.

Finally,you can always start a legal action against Bethesda if you think that they've sold a game "unplayable" or "broken".

But this will concern only you,your lawyer and Beth eventually.

Sorry if i seems a bit rude here,but asking for a refund on a forum isn't a very astute move after all.

Mods should never be taken in account when judging the quality of the game.

Don't worry about people who claim that Skyrim characters are ugly.
Most of those people are people who want to see anime/Hollywood bimbos instead of real beauty.

Mainly because it was crude and not very well done before. I dislike the 3D where you have to wear the red/green glasses (anaglyph) because there's practically no depth to it and the effect is tacky and sometimes hard to see.

I prefer the real depth of my shutter glasses, it actually looks like you can put your hand inside the screen and around an object. In World of Tanks MMO, you can see your tank in the garage and it really looks like you could reach in and pick it up like a model. The movie Final Destination 5, things really do seem to fly out of the screen at you, in the opening credits, it really looks like there are bits of glass in the area between you and the monitor screen and some of the things that break the glass also "come through" your monitor. I guess that eventually, technology will advance to the stage where even the glasses won't be needed but until then, I'll keep enjoying games in 3D even though I have to wear the glasses for it.

I'm satisfied with Skyrim, as a customer. It's delivered most things i wanted yet some things could have been done better, by design and implementation.

Still pleased with it, a game worth playing.

A lot of you guys have very valid complaints. Skyrim was rushed and Bethesda cut a lot of cornors with the game to rush it to market. But at least they are working of fixing the problems. Unlike a lot of devs that put out one or two patches and call it good.

Greg