I'm at just over 450 hours in Skyrim, and I have to say I'm very pleased with the stability of Skyrim compared to Oblivion.

This on the PC (Win7 x64) and I'm currently running with approx 50 mod ESPs loaded.

I've had maybe 1 or 2 CTDs total, and one corrupted save.

With Oblivion, especially once OOO + MMM were loaded, it was important to save every 15-20 minutes lest when the inevitable CTDs did occur, I would have to repeat alot of lost gameplay.

Also, with Skyrim the Quick/Auto saves have been reliable and effective for me, unlike the notorious Quick/Auto saves of Oblivion.

Sure, there's a bunch of things that irk me about Skyrim, but at least CTDs and corrupted saves aren't part of them.

Lucky you, my game is near unplayable at 300 hours.

Oblivion seemed a lot more stable to me, but that's probably only because I began playing it about 2 years after it came out, and it had loads of patches for it by then. I began playing Skyrim on 12/11/11. Probably should have waited a year or two but I'm only human.

Yeah, it's almost unanimous actually that Skyrim is the superior game to Oblivion by light years. Haven't seen many people here on the " Oblivion is better" side of the fence

I don't know, there's many things about Oblivion I liked better. I think I liked the theme of Oblivion more, I liked the journal better, well at least the fact you could see what you looked like in it. I liked the Main Quest in Oblivion better, I thinked Elves looked better in Oblivion, or at least more distinguished, they all look a lot more similar in Skyrim I think.

I don't think I could pick between the games really.

I'm sure the OP is commenting on the reliability of Skyrim rather than whether it's better then Oblivion, Do we really have to open that can of worms again?

Regarding the reliability, yes, Skyrim is an improvement over Oblivion by a magnitude, at least for me that is.

To me Oblivion is much better game. It has way better quests, story, music, voices, rpg elements...

Also Oblivion was less buggy and has less glitches then Skyrim.

I'd agree that Oblivion has some better quests and a few more interesting tales, Skyrim has it beat in every other area though...especially stability, Oblivion was a horrible, churning, stuttering, crashing mess and six years of mods have only just made it tolerable.

I have to agree with the OP. Skyrim crashes very rarely and performs a lot better than Oblivion on this same system.

When Skyrim crashes it makes me as worried as when Oblivion doesn't

These two mods together probably have way more of a performance drain on Oblivion than all your Skyrim mods put together. Its not really a fair comparison. Oblivion is an old game and it takes a lot of care to get it to cope with huge mods.

yeah, there seems to be generally more bugs overall in Skyrim, but the CTDs as a whole for me just do not happen as often.

as opposed to Oblivion where it would crash almost every other time I'd fast travel.

What are CTD's ?

on PC they are "crashes to desktop".

on consoles they are referred to as "system freezes" or "lockups".

Ah well in my experience Skyrim is 100 times worse for lockups. I experienced maybe 3 in my total 1000+ hours of playing Oblivion and that was because I was playing without any patches (before I had Xbox Live), in Skyrim I've had about 50 in only 300 hours.

As far as the actual stability of the game yes. Quest, factions, skills, and writing...well...that's a different story.

I've felt since day one, that Skyrim is thier most stable game that I've ever played (meaning crash and frezze free, as well as corrupted saves). Playstaion and XBOX users may fell differently, but since I don't play on either platform, I can't honestly comment on that.

I have CTD's about 2-3 times per hour and it freezes about once per day. Oblivion or Morrowind never crashes on my computer.

Same here except on Xbox. Oblivion never froze for me on xbox after I had installed the updates, in 1000+ hours of gameplay.

Skyrim has frozen about 50 in 300 hours.

Oblivion only got 2 patched. 1.1 for Shivering Isles, and 1.2 to fix things from 1.1

Skyrim has gotten way more attention with patches then any other game in their history. Fallout 3 got up to 1.7, but those were mostly for adding achievements for the DLCs.

It isn't even debatable that Skyrim, overall, is far more stable and resource efficient then Oblivion. Not all software is going to play nice with everyone's set-up, that is just a fact of life with computers.

I'm on xbox though.. And the previous games seemed FAR more stable.

true, i did a complete reinstall of patch 1.5.26 and added all my mods back and nvr got any freezes and crashes. I can ride from stendarr's beacon to deep folk crossing without problems.

Perhaps that's because those other games didn't push the limits of the XBOX the way that Skyrim does. I do believe it's high time for Microshaft and Sony to release the next gen Consoles, the ones we have now, are horribly outdated.

Morrowind had some issues, but was my favorite game of all time.

Oblivion was such a terrible game I couldn't play it long enough to find any stability issues.

Skyrim: great game, completely stable. Don't know how many hours in, but level 43, zero CTD's.

I thought it might have something to do with that, the game is packed with so much more content than Oblivion and Fallout 3.

I have my doubts. I've had BSOD twice, and almost fried my master boot on my C drive once. Then Win 7 has a flaw where it deletes your restore points when you most need them(failed boot). Oblivion was pretty bad stability wise too, but runs decent on win 7.

As to playability, Oblivion was my favorite game. I didn't like Skyrim at first, but I'm starting to come around. I hope they never port to PC again...it stops their games from achieving full potential, and while that may be a minor consideration to the casual player, it's heartbreaking to those who most love Bethesda games.

That could be taken as saying that console players are just casual players and that the PC players love Bethesda most. Pretty much an established fact that most people who play on consoles are hardcoe. Not casual.

That would explain the DB assassins I keep encountering...