how to prevent crashes, glitching and framerate lag.

[statikcat]

Well my game is honestly getting unplayable and I am about to sell the game or ask Bethesda for a Steam code. Walking outside is non stop chopping. I never had these issues with Fallout which I plat. 60 bucks all this invested time and I can barely play. Worst game experience of PS3 to date.

[Bounty V]

Originally Posted by statikcat

Well my game is honestly getting unplayable and I am about to sell the game or ask Bethesda for a Steam code. Walking outside is non stop chopping. I never had these issues with Fallout which I plat. 60 bucks all this invested time and I can barely play. Worst game experience of PS3 to date.

I agree with most of what you said in regards to the game itself. I've put in over 80 hours and it's really becoming unplayable for me. I'll platinum the game once they fix it. If they don't/can't fix it then I'll grind my way to platinum sometime before 2012. I've really enjoyed the game so I can't really have any complaints.

[BeardedBushMan]

Originally Posted by statikcat

Well my game is honestly getting unplayable and I am about to sell the game or ask Bethesda for a Steam code. Walking outside is non stop chopping. I never had these issues with Fallout which I plat. 60 bucks all this invested time and I can barely play. Worst game experience of PS3 to date.

That really sucks. I have maybe about 40 hrs into the game and haven't had any of these issues (knock on wood), but I would be really pissed if I experienced them. I hope there is a patch that fixes it.

[Skullz_69]

I'm over 100hours in and I've just started getting lag and glitches

[Terje550]

i've been playing for 115 hours and my save file is about 14mb and aside from a few bugs and glitches here and there i don't really have any problems except the framerate but that solves itself after rebooting the ps3.
After i stopped using the autosave i feel like the game runs much better though.

[Lukezordz]

Sorry, but imo I think not being able to manually save is ridiculous... what if you want to go back to a certain point? I'm not gonna change the way I play a game because of the makers mistakes

[ecto69]

I had a thought and it seems to help, if you save always a new file, and never over write and older file with new data, the file size seems to stay close to the same. Also I have been moving and selling inventory so it is only in one or 2 places and not in my two locations (Whiterun house and College Mansion).

My thinking here is that when you over write a file it may add extra into and hence it continues to grow in size. At least that is my theory.

I will continue to monitor and report findings.

[NovaSD]

I just reboot my ps3 every couple hours and the framerate is bearable. It only starts to happen when I play for extended periods.

My save file is at 10.5 mb.

[Rawra]

My gamesave is a 10MB and that's from autosaving, so there goes your theory? Like everyone else has said, if you start getting bad lag after playing for a few hours, just restart the game and it's gone.

[ecto69]

Originally Posted by Rawra

My gamesave is a 10MB and that's from autosaving, so there goes your theory? Like everyone else has said, if you start getting bad lag after playing for a few hours, just restart the game and it's gone.

It was just a thought I had in the last 12 hours of game play. Most likely totally wrong. I have over 100 save files, which I save and purge to USB. So far my save file has remained below 7mb.

If a reboot fixes this lag then it is 99% memory fragmentation, just like ME2.

Don't forget there are only 3 auto save files it must overwrite the oldest or use a pattern similar to Dragon Age 2. Unless it deletes the old file first and then creates the new autosave, only the developers know for sure. Whereas when you manual save a new file every time it does not need to overwrite the other file.

But then what do I know I am not a programmer anymore and never game dev. Most likely the reason my save file shrinks is that I am getting rid of items (in disenchanting them and selling them etc) so can does not need to keep track of them anymore to the best of my understanding.