New Skyrim Patch Will Fix "Long-Term Play" Problems

[Tamrin]

I haven't had any problems on the PC except for those clean crashes once or twice. However, my brother started playing on his own save and experienced the Delphine bug of her raging bloodlust during the Diplomatic Immunity quest. To get the party clothes and continue the quest he had to dual cast Calm on her because single casting wore off before the conversation was finished.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Oh, good. I didn't think they could fix the lag problem. Thought it was my PS3. It's been jumpy at parts, but nothing unplayable until last night. I was following the Orc chief--to get the Daedec artifact--and had Lydia following me. We were attacked by bandits and the game just dropped into lag Hell. Probably would have died if Lydia wasn't such a good fighter. Glad they'll be able to fix it.

 

[dragongit]

I still would like some patches or some mods to smooth out the shading, things look funky when shadows are casted upon them. Also, real DLC in the near future would be nice... after the Xbox guys are done and finished with them of course*rolls eyes* I hope they are more then just a single dungeon though.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Oh wow after them knowing about this bug in their game engine for three years they are finally going to fix it. This issue existed in fallout 3, it existed in new vegas and it exists in skyrim as well. I have absolutely no faith in bethesda either being competant enough or caring enough about its customers to fix this bug.

Yes. The new creation engine is the old engine. Nice logic.

All signs point to it being a modified version of Gamebryo. Hence the same bug.

 

[Primus1985]

Ive been playing Skyrim pretty regular since launch on the 360 and Ive had no problems or bugs at all.

Well the first and only time a Giant killed me(Giants are Skyrim's Deathclaws, do not F- with unless your mid-high teens. At least Giants dont get aggressive unless you get right up close to them or their mammoths) he swung down his club with all his might and one shot killed me(at full health) the blow rocketed me at least 50 feet up in the air straight up. Though I attibute that more to the Giant being super strong and me weak than a actual bug.

Considering thats the only thing quasi-experience breaking ive found thats incredible. Hell Fallout: New Vegas was buggy as shit, you couldnt jump to save your life. Sure by now a whole year later with all the patches and DLC its much better but thats no excuse. Bethesda should never, NEVER, outsource their IP to any other developer, only they can do what they do. Obsidian had the tools and the materials but had no clue how to put it together, their B- developers at best, compared with Bethesda who is AAA. I now Skyrim took up much if not all of Bethesda's staffs time in the three years it took to build but I would think Todd Howard could pop his head in every once in awhile to give guidance.


Also *rubs finger and thumb together* hear that Sony boys? Thats the world smallest violin playing heartstrings just for you. A PS3 having bugs is nothing new, if you wanna run the risk of poor gameplay and issues because your blinded by the pretty lights and hardware thats all on you.

 

[Zom-B]

Why are modern games released which aren't working? Profits before playability? I remember buying Playstation and Nintendo 64 games which didn't rely on later patches or fixes. As far back as the SNES, Sega Megadrive, Atari, Gameboys etc, all of the games released for these worked for me. Is it too much to ask for modern games to work?

I'm not defending modern games per se, but you do realize that they are immensely more complicated than anything ever released on the SNES, right? That's like wondering why a new model car is harder to trouble shoot and fix than a bicycle.

 

[antipunt]

On a slightly different note has anyone checked out the PC mods yet? They're on it freaking fast, they already have higher res environmentals (like trees/blood) and updated night sky. Freaking 'mazing

I kid I kid. (kinda)


edit: To be fair, the PC version sometimes receives heat from the community. I'm not entirely sure why though. Something about the menu/layout console-lizy something?. I wouldn't know because I find the game just fine

 

[The Lugz]

i recently found an old interview of gabe newell that describes the ps3 multi-threading code issue
apparently it's a system flaw
( or rather a multi-thread design that just breaks safe code practices )

it's not surprising then that this slipped through the cracks
check here at 3:05 onwards, and look at the date! it's a known programming flaw for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8CVLVmKQs&feature=related

 

[gyroscopeboy]

I've played 4 Bethesda games on my first gen xbox360, and haven't experienced a problem with any of them.

 

[Argtee]

When do these issues start to occur? (PS3)

I'm about 30 hours in and at about 8000KB, but I've only noticed slight framerate problems.
Any idea when these problems become more apparent?

Still, hopefully this patch will come out soon.
Like...VERY soon.

 

[Primus1985]

I've played 4 Bethesda games on my first gen xbox360, and haven't experienced a problem with any of them.

Wait...You still have a First gen 360? That in of itself is a miracle.


Though to be fair to Bethesda they only produced Fallout: New Vegas so their not to blame for any...Wait you had no problems with New Vegas? Wow two miracles in one day im exhausted.

 

[Frostbite3789]

And the games industry once again makes me feel that I made the right choice in switching to PC gaming.

Huzzah! All hail the PC gaming master race!

HUZZAH! ALL HAIL~!
Change your icon to mine and join the PC gaming master race clan on the escapist!

Then we can cleanse the dirty console players!

Right Pinky but do you know what comes after that?!

VEEEEEEEEEEEE VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD!

Thats 2/2 for rpgs the witcher 2 and skyrim the PC gaming master race has regained its wings!.
With diablo3 around the corner!... oh my they are in trouble indeed.

I'm not sure I'd hold that up as a banner of PC gaming at this juncture.

Torchlight 2 fits the bill much better at this time.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Maybe a Gypsy curse from Mojang?

Bethesda is actually the ones who got Yogscast to drop the f-bomb in front of some kids, so they could collect the tears from Notch's QQing, to rid themselves of the curse.

Who was in the wrong with that whole situation between Notch and Bethesda?

I flat refuse to answer that. Any answer I give ends poorly.

 

[infohippie]

So any chance they're going to patch the extremely annoying menu bugs in the PC version? It's an excellent game otherwise, but the menus are a serious pain in the ass. They don't work properly with either the mouse or the keyboard and necessitate constantly saving the game before talking to someone in case the wrong conversation option gets chosen.

 

[duchaked]

saving issues are the worst tho :/ cuz then u couldn't really play and make progress period

 

[(LK)]

Nevermind that the PC version regularly crashes to desktop and is inexplicably limited to using 2gb of memory (what in the hell, man. The recommended system requirements call for more memory than the game is even capable of utilizing), we'd better get a patch out for the console versions first!

 

[Moosejaw]

I actually own a PC that's quite capable of running Skyrim, but got it for my Xbox anyway. Loading times, FPS and improved graphics tempted me...but there's just something special about a gamepad. And sitting in my recliner. In front on my flatscreen. I tried setting my PC up on it once, but goddamnit I need something to lean on! Tried using a plank of wood...just did not work.

Oh well. It runs smoothly enough and I can look past the bugs.

I really need to wonder, has anyone actually met someone that works on Bethesda's Q&A teams? If they do exist, and they're human beings and not chimpanzees, do they have any pride in their work? Do they actually work, or throw pencils up at the ceiling all day?

Yeah, Skyrim's a huge game. Tons, tons of variables. But you'd think after all the repeated, repeated Q&A failures they've had they'd get more people or get different people.

 

[ultrachicken]

I've experienced some intense lag on the PS3 version, but usually I can temporarily fix the issue by just restarting. Though I have noticed that the save files have been getting ridiculously big.

 

[Klagermeister]

Le snip.

It's all a matter of opinion.

I'm not experiencing any bugs, the game runs smoothly, and I'm having a great deal of fun with it.
Hell, I bought the Collector's Edition, and I feel with as good as the game is, I would have gladly shelled out that $160 for the standard edition.

Maybe, just maybe, we're not sheep and actually enjoy the game.
But that would imply not everyone feels exactly the same as you do, which is unthinkable, isn't it?

 

[Ford-Prefect]

OMG I need a PC patch to fix my left and right hand casting, why are they the wrong way round? left hand on mouse 2 and right hand on mouse 1. If they don't fix this soon I am demanding a refund.

TBH i have had very few problems, shadow mapping is awful and due to my pc limitations I can't increase shadow map size without at some point causing slow down that's due to paging of texture data in and out of VRAM (I need more!!).

I am surprised to hear of technical problems regarding console users, surely fixed targets are easier to hit that moving ones. Considering the plethora of garbage pc gamers will try to run this on I would expect far more complaints from said community, but it appears to be the other way round.

Any ways don't Bethesda own iD or the other way round, I'm sure gamebyro engine will get replaced by id Rage engine if that's a good or a bad thing I don't know.