As if so many people keep a track of the save file size.

Fallout 3 GOTY same thing, i remember it being an issue when you had an oversize inventory. PS3 version.

Well my save is over 6mb and the only problems i can see is FPS drop when i ride a horse.

Same thing happened with Fallout 3, same with NV. God dammit Bethesda.

Each time the game saves, your file size increases.

The further I get the more often it freezes but I'm playing patchless. Hope they get the second one out soon so when I go to my friends I can get that one as well.

Aren't they prepping a patch for Skyrim?

Hopefully it addresses this problem.

Wow..maybe it's good that I wasn't able to get the game on day one. I can't wait to play it but, maybe I should wait until all of this dust settles. I'm not looking forward to buy a game that will not let me play past a certain point.

This sounds like Fallout 3 GOTY on PS3. Did Bethesda test Skyrim/Fallout 3 in small segments and never let the save game file grew really large by completing everything in the same playthrough?

With the history of Bethesda ignoring to fix this kind of bug on Fallout 3/New Vegas, this bug could become a feature.

Mine is at 9mb, this story is BS.

Mine is at 12 and the game only becomes choppy after about 3hrs with alot of fast travelling. Reloading fixes it. I've played for 52hrs and I have loved every second.

Morrowind on Xbox eventually became nearly unplayable :P

Especially considering how often that game crashed and made you wait 50 trillion years to load again lol. (actually something like 15 minutes after 200+ hours playtime but.... that is an insane loading time in itself so it deserves such a degree of exaggeration). Also consider that the world has about 3x as much content as Skyrim and that the only fundamental differences in the engine are rendering, physics and animation - 3 things that barely, if at all, affect save file sizes. File was probably upwards of 50MB lol.

Oblivion somehow avoided it though. I think it's probably RAM related (console games are usually designed to only leave about 10-20MB of ram unused for spikes in system activity). Wasn't there a problem in blops if you had a huge friends list? Could be a similar issue.

Its a ram issue, the problem is the game world doesn't refresh or reset like in Oblivion so all that junk just piles up making the game load every single object you have moved and NPC you have killed.

The same can be said about the 360 version!
Yesterday i had some problems performing the shouts while being attacked by 3 marauders. I pressed the button a few times and nothing. I was dual wielding by the way.

Switch off the PS3, switch it back on and load your game and that fixes the problem.

Holding onto too much information I think when people play it for more than a couple of hours at a time.

Had the same issue with vegas, but not with oblivion (both on ps3)and waited ages for it to be fixed..... in the end,i just gave up and got rid of the game.

I really hope the same thing don't happen here, approaching 6mb. And currently only had a couple of random crashes & a few frame drops. fingers crossed, cos i'm loving skyrim!.

mine works absolutely fine! iv'e not experienced any of the problems on ps3! my save is a t 11mb and perfectly fine.

They never fixed it in fallout 3. On the forums they were jerks and never answered 1 post regarding the issue and just let it slide...it was the reason i didnt buy new vegas. Im sad to hear skyrim have this problem too.

Unfortunately this is true. I am 8mb in, and every time I kill a dragon the game freezes when it combusts. Bethesda will just sweep this under the radar because it is not effecting all ps3's.

Yesterday mine was so choppy it was nearly unplayable (ps3 250g fatboy). I had 5 different save files so I deleted 4 and kept 1....turned off autosave and now it's back to running smooth again. Now I'm afraid everytime I save because the file size keeps growing.

The solution is quite simple, i am not sure they can pull it off with a patch, but why not?

Game caches every item or dead person you move or leave and every location you have registered (registered counts as if you have been there and touched the item/person), they could just set a limit and auto-delete for the history actions, except for your house and some item chests and make bodies disappear when the limit is reached, but for the areas not set for enemies to re-spawn, they don't.

It could make loadings slower, because it's the only place where that can be done without slowing down the game, but i don't really mind that some things disappear if game performance is damaged by that.

I don't even have room for another saved game, gotta either upgrade my drive or get an external.

I don't have 'Skyrim' yet - but when I had my fat 60GB, Oblivion and Fallout 3 would just freeze like crazy once I got past the 13mb file size.. Fallout New Vegas (have 120GB slim now) it would do the same after getting to and beyond 11mb..

The only solutions that I've used.. in the game options, turn off saving on resting/sleeping. After playing the game for 4hrs or more.. save your game (always save in a new slot, never use the same save game file) turn off your PS3 for at least 2mins, reboot and load the game. Also delete any old and unimportant save game files..

my ps3 freezed alot on new vegas but that doesn't effict on the fun to me , i just restart the ps3 soit won't effict the fun in skyrim too ...

I've said the same exact thing about Fallout. I've had a theory about why Bethesda's games crash so much on PS3, and I think it's related in some way to the save file. In most games, your save file writes over itself, since a loaded save doesn't actually hold all of your previous progress, rather it literally tells the game a starting point, items included. However, Fallout's save files continue to grow the longer you play. I think my save in Fallout 3 is close to 30MB, when all was said and done. I think the problem may be that Bethesda is not dumping the cache properly, instead having it continue to build on itself, just like the save file, which explains all the slow down, and would explain why so many people have said that after a reset, the game works better for them, at least for a while, but we shouldn't have to do that. You would think after all this time, Bethesda would have fixed the SAME or similar bugs, and they can't get away with the large, open world excuse over and over.