Malice Chains
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Paw if you are still playing Skyrim on ps3 read this to "save" yourself
(someone who plat'd it)
Last night I finished Skyrim on PS3 and got the Platinum Trophy (160 hours). I'll post some of the PS3 technicals on my play though here.
First off, this is the first Bethesda game that I didn't simply turn off after 5-8 hours. I prefer JRPGs and more polished games, but Skyrim's world captivated me to fully play the game.
The first 40-50 hours of play I had very few issues. 2 hard crashes & 1 infinite loading screen transition, my save file was under 6MB. Then once my save file hit around 6.6MB the game really started to hiccup, not slide show yet. This is when I started to check the forums & read into the issues.
Around 60 hours I changed my play style since I guessed where this was all going. I maxed out my Speech Skill basically to get a good money supply and slowed down interacting with the world. I stopped grabbing items, searching chests, looting bodies, reading books, etc.. I could make my own potions & sell them for more cash than what I ever needed. I build my ultimate Dragon Scale armor and was on my way to invincibility.
Around 80 hours, my savefile was 9.8MB when the 1.2 patch hit, which dropped is to 9.1 MB. Pre-patch, major slideshows 0 FPS all over the place. I could play for 30 mins then would have to drop to the XMB & restart. I was very close to stop playing. The patch extended that play time to around 2-3 hours before restarting.
I got hit with the Winterhold Legion Quest bug show stopper and had to restart a few hours of play to side with Stormcloaks instead.
From 100 to 160 hours, savefile from 9.1MB to only 11MB. I completely stopped interacting with the world as much as I could. Kill the enemies & ignore everything. The game hard locked about 10 times total.
For me there was no need to grab anything in the world for the last half of my play though. I could craft my own equipment, make my own potions for money, just buy everything, to not change any world state.
My suggestion if you want to fully finish up on PS3 is severely limit your changes on the world. It's not the ideal solution since you should be able to fully immerse yourself & fully interact, but unfortunately Skyrim on PS3 performance degrades as you play.
(someone who plat'd it)
Last night I finished Skyrim on PS3 and got the Platinum Trophy (160 hours). I'll post some of the PS3 technicals on my play though here.
First off, this is the first Bethesda game that I didn't simply turn off after 5-8 hours. I prefer JRPGs and more polished games, but Skyrim's world captivated me to fully play the game.
The first 40-50 hours of play I had very few issues. 2 hard crashes & 1 infinite loading screen transition, my save file was under 6MB. Then once my save file hit around 6.6MB the game really started to hiccup, not slide show yet. This is when I started to check the forums & read into the issues.
Around 60 hours I changed my play style since I guessed where this was all going. I maxed out my Speech Skill basically to get a good money supply and slowed down interacting with the world. I stopped grabbing items, searching chests, looting bodies, reading books, etc.. I could make my own potions & sell them for more cash than what I ever needed. I build my ultimate Dragon Scale armor and was on my way to invincibility.
Around 80 hours, my savefile was 9.8MB when the 1.2 patch hit, which dropped is to 9.1 MB. Pre-patch, major slideshows 0 FPS all over the place. I could play for 30 mins then would have to drop to the XMB & restart. I was very close to stop playing. The patch extended that play time to around 2-3 hours before restarting.
I got hit with the Winterhold Legion Quest bug show stopper and had to restart a few hours of play to side with Stormcloaks instead.
From 100 to 160 hours, savefile from 9.1MB to only 11MB. I completely stopped interacting with the world as much as I could. Kill the enemies & ignore everything. The game hard locked about 10 times total.
For me there was no need to grab anything in the world for the last half of my play though. I could craft my own equipment, make my own potions for money, just buy everything, to not change any world state.
My suggestion if you want to fully finish up on PS3 is severely limit your changes on the world. It's not the ideal solution since you should be able to fully immerse yourself & fully interact, but unfortunately Skyrim on PS3 performance degrades as you play.
