Internet-five!Macgyvercas said:Ha ha! 8 GB of RAM on my PC. Try and lag me now, sucker! Or, at least try when I get Skyrim for Christmas...
Gratuitous amounts of RAM feels good, loving my 8GB.
Internet-five!Macgyvercas said:Ha ha! 8 GB of RAM on my PC. Try and lag me now, sucker! Or, at least try when I get Skyrim for Christmas...
Yeah I hope so too, people deserve to play the game they bought. Also I've kind of noticed the amount of dragons you kill affects the memory since the bones never disappear so maybe only kill what you need.Bara_no_Hime said:Oh. Cool. ^^ Here's hoping I continue to be lucky with Skyrim.Deathninja19 said:No I think like me you just got lucky there, in fact I had no idea there was a fallout problem until people started to compare it to this.
Also: Mental note, when playing Skyrim, don't move around unnecessary random objects. The less I touch, the smaller the save file will stay (as I understand the problem as explained above).
Lol you do know that skyrim is limited to 2gigs of ram. Although there is a patch that brings its up to 4gigs so congrats for extra ram.Macgyvercas said:Ha ha! 8 GB of RAM on my PC. Try and lag me now, sucker! Or, at least try when I get Skyrim for Christmas...
The minimum system requirements for skyrim are incredibly low. The PC I built almost 10 years ago can play it.MCGT said:Yeah but how well would a 6 year old computer handle Skyrim? So unless you have the money to upgrade/update your computer every year that argument doesn't really hold much water.
First, don't start a post with "LOL, what?" It makes you sound either goofy or insulting, neither of which are conducive to a discussion. Second, I'm not blaming them for the games issue per se, I am saying that they have a memory problem, that has caused issues across a few games and applications, that has annoyed me in the past and probably will again in the future. And who the hell buys games for the Wii?Crono1973 said:LOL, what?Swyftstar said:While I'm not excusing Bethesda, I don't think Sony should get a pass on this one either. Not having enough RAM is just silly. Not having cross game chat is annoying and this isn't the first game to exhibit issues because of it. DC Universe Online used to crash religiously because of the low memory problem. Also, when I'm online on my PS3, it will occasionally freeze or tell me there isn't enough memory so the web page is being replaced with a blank screen.
For Bethesda's part, releasing this game when there is a known issue, without at least a warning is shady.
Blame Sony because Bethesda can't make their games work well on the PS3? Sony may share some of the blame, they should have told Bethesda to fix it before they allowed it on the PS3 but Bethesda's incompetence is not Sony's fault.
If you tried to make a game for the Wii and it lagged really bad, would you really blame Nintendo?
So is it worth it getting it on ps3? its the only format I can get it on (pc probably wont run it well anyway) :/Ilikemilkshake said:snip
If you look in the top left corner, it'll say "Autosaving..." which is what is actually causing your controls to die for a few seconds. It's not a glitch, bug, or anything of the sort.GaltarDude1138 said:The only lag I'm really concerned with is when I bring up the menu and my controls suddenly go dead for about 3 seconds and I can't select anything. It's annoying as hell and it happens whenever I bring up the menu.
I bet it's a console thing, too...
I'd rather have load screens than this setup. I live with transitions in Zelda games, and I lived with loading with Morrowind (and I love that game more than Skyrim) so I could have lived with this game having loading too.ElektroNeko said:So basically, it's really, really, really bad memory management.
But yeah, it's either this or loading screens. I don't think developers these days have the time and resources to make a efficient file scream mechanism, especially for such a big game.
Well actually, Bethesda didn't send the PS3 version to reviewers because they knew it was flawed and it would lower the score. I have read that the Official Playstation Magazine UK dropped the score from 9 to 7 though. I read it here:Mimsofthedawg said:It doesn't matter the potential. Potentially, the earth could collide with an asteroid and all life cease to exist at any moment - it's actually a statistical miracle that in the time humanity as existed, we haven't had a cataclysmic end to our species (we almost did a few times though). the Yellowstone volcano and a couple other super volcanoes around the world are set to erupt at any moment, which would kill off most plants and animals. There could be a new plague at any second, breeding in some murky, swampy, trash water in Thailand. If you want to talk about the potential of something happening, that's fine, but you might as well be talking about theoreticals here.TheGuy(wantstobe) said:Every single copy no matter the system has the potential for the exact same issue. Playstyle will be the main determininator as to when you experience it though and how you can minimise the impact it will have. That is undisputable fact backed up by developers who have worked on the engine based entirely around the way in which savegames and object data is both stored and loaded in engine.Mimsofthedawg said:Because it's not a universal problem. Everyone's acting like it's some HUGE thing and that EVERY PLAYER ON THE PS3 CAN'T EVEN PLAY THE DAMN GAME!Ilikemilkshake said:Considering that these issues have existed since FO3, why have Bethesda 1) not fixed it. or 2) bothered porting the game to the ps3 when they know that the way their game works will almost definatly cause the game to degrade to a point of unplayability?
No... no, that's not true. While IGN did a poll, only 51% of people experience lag, and only a small fraction of them experienced it so bad they had to restart the game. Even a smaller fraction said the game was "unplayable".
You simply have to do some developer magic to get it to work right... but it's not as bad as you'd make it out to be... or anyone, really.
Other minor thing is this a framerate issue not lag which is a fundamentally different thing altogether.
Bethesda obviously tested it ENOUGH so that the average experience is stable and fine - otherwise you'd see mention of it in the reviews, sales wouldn't have been as good, and instead of forums being oversaturated with "ZOMGWTFBBQ SKYRIM!!!!!" they'd be oversaturated with "I CAN'T BELIEVE I BOUGHT SUCH A FUCKING GAME!"
Case in point: this is the first serious thread I've seen on the escapist talking about this issue.
I don't hold potentials against a game company like Bethesda who does such a good job of making a type of game that is INHERENTLY buggy, because potentially has never effected me, and based on the polls, seldom effects others too.