nothing can save this game for me. they took so muck out that i loved to do like make a class at the start of game or lvl up my jump! just going back to play tes4

I'm on the 360 but isn't the lag on the ps3 partly due to too many saves files being stored? Cleaning up your saved files should fix it?

This sucks for those trying to play on the PS3. I think everyone should be able to play this fantastic game trouble free.

I know a lot of people who love Bethesda made games, but always wait a little while before buying them just because there always seem to be issues like this with them.

F*** it. Turning this in for PC version.

I don't care how great the reviews/scores are for #Skyrim, so long as this PS3 lag issue still exists it should be a negative zero.

Was hoping that the patch was going to fix the problem and then I was going to purchase the game.

Surely this refers to framerate slowdown and not lag ie the framerate reduces in speed to less an ammount. This term is thrown about very wrongly. It will i'm sure give the impression that control input is lagging for example as well but that's because the screen is only refreshed so many times a second- as well the game slows down as a result of all this leading to people thinking control is lagging

Lag as in lagging behind refers to an entirely different thing. Online play as an example where you are shot while not being in the place you were previously. This Skyrim problem here though isn't anything to do with lag but rather because the engine is being brought down to a crawl. The term is rather stupidly accepted now brought about by misuse and made ever worse by media and forums etc

I played it for hours yesterday and it was a better than before,
performance issues are not gone completely but who really expected that?
They delivered exactly what they said with "Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3)"
They never said it would be "fixed".

50 hours, 8mb. I Also have a friend who was on 12mb and 90 hours and he reported a big difference.
Clearly its different for everyone and articles like this don't tell the full story.

Shame on you Bugthesda...

Dude seriously all you have to do to avoid the frame rate drops is to not play for more than an hour. I know thats hard during weekends but on weekends just turn your ps3 off for like 30 mins after the lag starts.

My framerate issues were much better after installing the update. I have an original 60gb PS3 and my game save file is 11mb with 90+ hours of gameplay. Before it was so bad I could only play for an hour or 2 before I had to reset the game. I played for almost 4 hours last night and the game breaking framerate issues were gone. For me it happened most when riding a horse (especially when a dragon attacks) but after the update I had no issues except for a few random hiccups in the famerate.

Downloaded the patch yesterday morning and it worked, but now I've noticed the lag slowly but surely creeping in again. What a debacle: I'll never buy another Bethesda game on launch day again. This kind of disrespectable treatment towards PS3 users should not be tolerated.

It's still lags in parts but not as bad as it did. Now it's just spots in the game not long term play.

only lag ive seen is in a quest where i had to kill a giant there were two mammoths, me, my companion, & like 5 bandits all on screen fighting & it was a lag fest until all the bandits were dead, but that is normal this gen get to many things going on at once & eveything lags like crazy!

A Bethesda game with bugs?? say it isn't so. you would think they could afford a better QA team.

mine was lagging very bad in a city i was doing the quest ,worst i found out the patch wasn't to fix the ps3 it was getting ready for dlc we get today Europe got already ,friend from there told me that patch was for dlc not fix lag ,or drop rate ,i play assassin creed revelation no problems same for saints row , i love sky rim but i had when my chacter moving so slow ,like one time i trying to talk to a guy end up stealing and apple getting warrant

I just downloaded that shit. Are you serious?

i havent had a single issue with my copy yet, im level 14 and i have yet to see a single glitch.

Should i install the new patch? my lag starts after about three hours, but isn't game breaking (almost) just really annoying. im afraid that the patch might screw something up in the game or make the lag worse...