The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is easily one of the most impressive games of the year, from its stunning visuals down to its incredible gameplay. The questing system will keep players engaged for hours upon hours with nary a step into the “main” story line. The world feels alive, fresh, and invigorating.
That all being said, it is a shame that Skyrim was released with so many technical glitches and bugs. Our own Rob Keyes loved the game, but still was highly disappointed with the developers for not squashing all these seemingly obvious bugs before the game was launched a few weeks ago. From the supposed memory leak in the PS3 version of the game (which rendered it impossible to play once the save file grew too large), to the various Xbox 360 issues which included the opening carriage glitch, texture mapping issues (with Bethesda warning players to not install the game) and various gameplay expoits/cheats, Skyrim definitely has had a mixed bag since it was released to much fanfare on November 11.
Bethesda forums were abuzz with PS3 players wondering why the game’s frame rate had dropped so low while their save files were growing larger and larger with every save. Bethesda was quick to respond, a testament to their customer-focused approach, and promised a patch November 28. Bethesda PR boss Pete Hines promised the patch will improve performance for “long-term play on PS3,” and true to form, version 2.01 was released today, fixing the annoying stuttering issue as well as the save file issue, making the game much more playable after saves reached the 6 MB threshold.
Take a look at the notes for Skyrim’s 1.2 Update below.
UPDATE 1.2 NOTES (all platforms unless specified)
- Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3)
- Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (Xbox 360)
- Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz (PC)
- Fixed issue where projectiles did not properly fade away
- Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead
- Dragon corpses now clean up properly
- Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack
- Fixed rare NPC sleeping animation bug
- Fixed rare issue with dead corpses being cleared up prematurely
- Skeleton Key will now work properly if player has no lockpicks in their inventory
- Fixed rare issue with renaming enchanted weapons and armor
- Fixed rare issue with dragons not properly giving souls after death
- ESC button can now be used to exit menus (PC)
- Fixed occasional mouse sensitivity issues (PC)
- General functionality fixes related to remapping buttons and controls (PC)
After browsing the Skyrim forums today, it would appear that just about everyone is satisfied with the results of the patch. I had to shelve the game until the patch was released, considering my own personal Dovahkiin was unable to do simple tasks such as open doors and steal spoons off the Jarl’s dinner table. I’m pleased to report that Dovahkiin is back to his dragon-slaying self, though I am trying to avoid stealing the flatware.
Bethesda expects the PC and Xbox 360 Skyrim patches to be ready by November 30th.
Skyrim PS3 users, is your Dovahkiin back to his/her old self? Any further technical issues that have been unreported thus far?
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is now available for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Well I’m glad the save file issue is fixed, mine it currently at 13MB but I. Found that the frame rate was only dropping after 6 or more hours of continuous play, but if I turned it off and then rite back on it fixed its self for another few hours. And I find it hilarious that 360 people still have to wait for their patch.
Your lag is maybe caused by the ps3 gettIng too hot or something, 6 hours is a long time, even if it is skyrim
I find it hilarious that PS3 users have to deal with a crap company that gets hacked every 4 months.
I find it funny that you have to buy everything separately inorder to get your 360 to do anything other than play offline games and standard deff DVDs.
Dear mr. J
It is obvious that you want nothing more than to start a needless flame war by making stupid comments such as that. To get facts right, psn was hacked once, which I consider to be different to every four months.
Yours sincerely
Anti-flame-war-starting-people brigade
Dear mr. J
It is obvious that you want nothing more than to start a needless flame war by making ridiculous comments such as that. To get facts right, psn was hacked once, which I consider to be different to every four months.
Yours sincerely
Anti-flame-war-starting-people brigade
Don’t you just hate it when wordpress messes up the submission?
I didn’t buy anything separately besides a subscription? And I’ve still spent less over 4 years of subscription than I would have with a brand new launch ps3.
“Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack”
I have no idea if I even got this glitch but I might have.
Does that include dragons flying around above me for hours and never once coming down to get me then just flying off randomly? Because I got that a lot. Even when I was lucky enough to shoot them with my bow. I hope the Dragons grow bigger balls or what ever they have and attack me on sight!
Yeah that’s the problem they fixed.
My weird glitch report that i hope they fix.
So i was on top of a mountain when i was attacked by a dragon and when i killed it it had no place to land, to flew around dead forever. i came back randomly a few days later and it had turned to bones in the air, had full health, and was invincible. i left and came back again and it turned invisible but it took damage and i was able to kill it again and it actually died this time.
Fix this Bethesda
Dude you should have totally recorded that. Thats funny and cool, i’d love to see that inmy game.
You killed an invisible invulnerable flying dragon?
Ok…sounds really credible…not
can i get a fix for the prison bug in markarth already???
I see no mention of the quest glitches where the npc’s disappear being fixed, which is very disappointing as they are ruining the game for me.
O.o So these impressive textures I got from installing Skyrim to my XBox360 are actually glitched and are low grade? Holy crap, and here I thought they were amazing for a hunk of junk console. Wonder to what extent they will be improved, and when this update comes out for us I’m gonna have to reinstall it just incase.
Surprisingly the only glitch i got is not being able to finish the killing the emperor as an assassin cause of my Vampireism
I had an issue with meeting an npc for the thieves guild quest she wont go to where we have to meet and i cant interact with any 1 in the guild and I need to talk to a guy about the dark brotherhood sanctuary
My level 81(thanks to the bookshelf glitch) redguard Ronon Dex…..modeled to look just like Ronon is back to his usual awesome dragon slaying self. Also i was wondering can you start a war between stormcloaks and the empire? Im picking the empires side simply because of Saul Tigh
any lvling exploits on ps3 i need ideas
Play the game properly? If you feel the need to use explouts then I’m sorry to say that you wasted your money on skyrim
My PS3 version was getting quite laggy around 7.4 meg save. I installed the new patch released yesterday with high hopes. Once the game started I could immediately notice the lowered detail but with higher fps. I may have played for 40 seconds after the loading and the game froze completely. I had to hard boot my PS3 and tried another attempt with a different save. Same outcome, within a minute or so the game freezes the console. So now my console version is completely unplayable and 60 hours of exploring is down the drain. I got the PC version now, which is way better in almost every way, yet losing the big screen hdtv with surround sound… and the comfort of my recliner. Needless to say I am very frustrated with the PS3 port.
What about the overlapping quest glitch that essentially ends the Companions Questline midway through? Did they fix that?
What about the theives guild ‘Erikur’ glitch?
Does this patch fix the Esbern voice and main quest line glitches?’
Seems like its only performance fixes, but soo many quests are bugged as well…
Sounds like they found the fix to Fallout 3′s lag/save problem with this game. Too bad they sunsetted F3… I really wanted to play the DLCs I bought.
can someone post a site wih the skyrim update file so i can transfer it? i dont have internet.
can someone post a link to a site with the latest skyrim update? i dontn have internet so i need to copy it.