Workarounds for Skyrim (PS3 version)

[Costello]

If you have acquired the PS3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you may already be suffering from serious lag issues which occur after about halfway into the game, or roughly a hundred hours of play time. As explained previously, the issues actually occur on all platforms but are more obvious with the PS3 version because of its limited amount of RAM; only 256 megabytes are available for game data on Sony's console.

It's a very complex problem and that cannot be fixed as easily as one would wish, but Bethesda have said they will be able to resolve the issue in a later patch. In the meantime they have issued the following recommendations:

• Disabling automatic saves seems to help, especially with large saves
• Free up some space on your hard drive, make sure you have at least 2 gigabytes for caching
• Use the "wait" feature in the game for at least 30 consecutive days if you want the game to "forget" game elements such as item and character location and position, places you've visited and so forth.

These tips were posted by Bethesda's Senior community manager over at their official forums.

 

[Normmatt]

Seriously stop writting posts at 3am, so much engrish in this

 

[Densetsu]

Although the PS3 version does look prettier than the 360 version, I'm getting pissed off at the lag. I've taken a break from the game until something is done about it.

I have the PC version too (to mess around with mods and stuff after I've finished the game once), but I don't want to have to start over considering how little free time I have lately

But thanks for the heads-up, I'll definitely give this a try.

 

[triassic911]

Don't know why bethesda would release this game to the public if this game obviously wasn't done yet...

 

[Bladexdsl]

Don't know why bethesda would release this game to the public if this game obviously wasn't done yet...

it is done there's no lagg on the PC version

 

[phoenixclaws]

The problem is that Bethesda has a history of not fully testing their games on console hardward before release. Consider what happened to Fallout 3 as evidence.

The game is finished but they must have expected a heavier hardware spec without checking it out first. The QA divison for Bethesda seems to be run very poorly.

 

[jalaneme]

Disabling automatic saves seems to help, especially with large saves

This won't help large save files at all which is only adding to the problem.

Free up some space on your hard drive, make sure you have at least 2 gigabytes for caching

I have almost 200gb free, I doubt that will resolve the problem.

Use the "wait" feature in the game for at least 30 consecutive days if you want the game to "forget" game elements such as item and character location and position, places you've visited and so forth.

I doubt that will help the lag much, but I. Will try it anyway, the only thing that helps is restarting the game.

 

[MrDiesel]

You got something wrong there. The PS3 has 512MB of RAM available. The problem is that it's splitted in 256MB XDR Main and 256MB GDDR3 VRAM.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

You got something wrong there. The PS3 has 512MB of RAM available. The problem is that it's splitted in 256MB XDR Main and 256MB GDDR3 VRAM.

Does everyone knowing this fact change anything?

 

[Deleted-236924]

Don't know why bethesda would release this game to the public if this game obviously wasn't done yet...

Because otherwise people would (and already were) be complaining about the game taking too long to release.

 

[MrDiesel]

You got something wrong there. The PS3 has 512MB of RAM available. The problem is that it's splitted in 256MB XDR Main and 256MB GDDR3 VRAM.

Does everyone knowing this fact change anything?

If you prefer having false information in an article, be my guest

 

[raulpica]

You got something wrong there. The PS3 has 512MB of RAM available. The problem is that it's splitted in 256MB XDR Main and 256MB GDDR3 VRAM.

Does everyone knowing this fact change anything?

If you prefer having false information in an article, be my guest

Err... "only 256MB available to the game" means that the game can only use 256MB. And that's exactly what's happening there, since the other 256MBs are reserved as VRAM (that the game cannot directly use to store data). Thus, the article hasn't got any false information in it.

 

[Jiro2]

Doesn't this bug already occur on Oblivion as well?

 

[Elrinth]

Sucks... I bought the game on my PS3. However I've not even fired it up. I finished it on my PC instead But that's only because I just purchased new gfxcard. hehe

 

[GameSoul]

It seems like whenever Bethesda makes an amazing game, it's mucked up by lag and glitches.

 

[Deleted_171835]

So it seems the limitations of the current-gen consoles are showing.

Bring on the next gen!