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Skyrim PS3 Gameplay Issues May Never Be Fixed, Due to Problematic PS3 Hardware?


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If you have been trying too enjoy the new Skyrim game on your PS3, you have undoubtedly experienced freezes and the game slowing down whilst playing.

Now Joshua Sawyer of Obsidian has explained in a personal Q&A on Formspring that the problems being experienced by Skyrim PS3 gamers is due to the consoles divided memory pool and how the games engine fundamentally saves off and references data at run time.

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Joshua Sawyer of Obsidian explains:

“The Xbox 360 has a unified memory pool: 512 megs of RAM usable as system memory or graphics memory”, Sawyer said. “The PS3 has a divided memory pool: 256 megs for system, 256 for graphics. It’s the same total amount of memory, but not as flexible for a developer to make use of”.

“As with Fallout 3 and Skyrim, the problems are most pronounced on the PS3 because the PS3 has a divided memory pool. The longer you play a character, the more bit differences on objects (characters, pencils on tables, containers, etc.) get saved off and carried around in memory. I think we’ve seen save games that are pushing 19 megs, which can be really crippling in some areas”.

Bethesda is hoping to correct the issues experienced by PS3 gamers with the roll out of a new patch very soon.

Source: Lazy Gamer

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  • Anonymous

    The 360 finally won this round of console wars so it’s going to be mighty interesting how ms and sony are going to continue the fight with the next gen of consoles, the PS3 is a mighty contender but it’s had nothing but trouble since it’s launch while the 360 continues to go from strength to strength year after year (quite remarkable considering the problems it had, especially the early models failure rate, to fight back from that and still record record sales after 7 years is impressive, all down to it’s LIVE service, if it wasn’t for that the xbox would of been doomed).
    Sony has learned a lot of lessons with the PS3 (we hope so anyway) they need to get it right with the PS4 or it’s going to be game over for the legendary playstation.
    I cant wait to see how the next console fight pans out, the wii U looks interesting (love the idea of that controller), could be a huge threat to the hardcore market but doubtful if all they release is yet more mario and sonic spin offs with the occasional token hardcore game and a lame live service, pretty much a forgone conclusion that it will sell by the trillions on day one though.

  • LeatherneckKlien

    I think Sony needs to come out with a new PS3 Console that has 512 megs of RAM for memory and 512 megs of RAM for graphics.  Then give any PS3 owner a 75% discount if they return there older PS3 to them. 
    Sony really ****ed up by having divided memory, who ever came up with that idea SONY should FIRE them.

  • Kramer

    The Xbox 360 came out a year before PS3 and there pretty much neck and neck. Experts say that the PS3 will be the best selling console of this gaming generation when it’s all said and done and it’s not sony’s fault skyrim is unplayable on there system. It’s Bethesda’s fault. Your making it seem like Playstation is barely getting by. Lol

  • Pbfanatic23

    I would agree with you if Xbox360 did not have such a high failure rate. 

  • ps3dev

    I agree its Bethesda’s fault. Truth is, they should never have released Skyrim for PS3. As painful as it is, the fact is: PS3 cannot handle Skyrim. This is the sad truth. A machine with only 256 MBs cannot run Skyrim. However, if they did the right thing and only released SKyrim on systems powerful enough to handle it, there would have been such an uproar like we have never seen!! Can you imagine! So, Bethesda made the only choice they could and release a game that was too demanding for the Ps3 hardware. This is the result!