best to wait till i get into this?

[jonbea6]

i normally put 1000+ hours into an elderscrolls save. from what im reading the more you play, the game starts to crash and only gets worse? (havnt crashed at all yet but still early on). am i better to wait a bit for a fix so i dont get annoyed after i put some hours in?

[AllergicToBrainRot]

yeah game has awful performance at times and random crashes. It's a bethesda game.

[Rufus Aloysius]

Yeah if you don't have the patience for the optimization issue I highly suggest waiting.

The game has major memory leaking issues that causes random bottlenecking, there are also random infinite loading screens.

Coupled with all of that you have to manually recompile the shaders after every GPU driver update, because for some odd reason Bethesda elected to not write an auto-detect code . . .

[Wendrig]

besides the infinity Loading, that happens around 1per 2hours, my game runs fine,

[mrwibble]

I've been playing it since release. I've clocked up 60+ hours so far. I get occasional stutters out and about in the open world, but it's totally playable FOR ME. Other people are having a terrible time with it, so you rolls your dice and you takes your chance, so to speak. I have yet to encounter any game breaking bugs or persistent crashes, so I'll keep playing. I mean, if it's working fine for you right now, why deny yourself the entertainment you paid for?

[Mad Matt Dog]

it's hit or miss, some people have almost no issues(its not perfect for anyone) and some people have horrible stutter and bad frame rates, you kind of just have to play it and find out, i think the steam forums are probably making it seem worse than it is though, the games reviews are fine so its probably not as wide spread as you'd think


me personally the game runs fine, no stutter, decent frames indoors and outdoors

if ur on the fence wait for a patch, else buy it and try it, if ur on a 40 series card and a recent intel cpu odds are in your favor, im on a 4070 and an i7 13700

[Vezner]

I'm nearly 60 hours into the game, have completed the MQ, the KOTN DLC, and am almost done with the Fighters Guild Questline. I have rarely had a crash and when I have, I'm pretty convinced it was due to a mod.

I'm not saying others aren't having problems. I'm just relaying my experience. Oh, and I'm definitely not using a high end system. My rig is on the lower end of the min specs.

Take it for what it's worth.

[milehigh026]

I know that my experience with this game is very different than many others. But I have not had the amount of crashes and bugs in this game as you would believe that others are having based on the amount of topics on this forum.

I have a little over 200 hours played and the only crash that I experience is the occasional exception error. In my 200 hours I have seen this maybe 20 times.

I don't think that it's a hardware issue at all. Even though I have built myself a monster of a gaming computer. All of the crashes seem to be software issues and their duct tape coding. As long as you can meet the minimum specs you should be able to run fine.

[Kuobar]

"from what im reading the more you play, the game starts to crash and only gets worse?"

Am 80+ hours in on a subpar PC. Haven't noticed quoted above at all. Had maybe 5 crashes total.

[SmallArchangel]

Approaching 80 hours here, and I am with those who have very few issues. Odd stutter in open world but not generally, one or two ctd's, probably due to the ton of mods I am already using. Apart from that, no performance issues, no bugs or glitches. Well, apart from the odd physics-related jank - but having a dead daedra spinning around on the ceiling is just Bethesda charm, no?

[RiseM]

Originally posted by SmallArchangel:

Approaching 80 hours here, and I am with those who have very few issues. Odd stutter in open world but not generally, one or two ctd's, probably due to the ton of mods I am already using. Apart from that, no performance issues, no bugs or glitches. Well, apart from the odd physics-related jank - but having a dead daedra spinning around on the ceiling is just Bethesda charm, no?

What mods do you recommend best? I know there are ratings on Nexus mods, but still I prefer a real person advice. Just intalling now and want to put a few musthave ones on the start.

[Sleat]

About 55 hours playtime here. A bit of stuttering in the world and the odd crash here and there but otherwise fine.

[Kuobar]

Only using Ascension Lite for slowing down leveling and no bandits with high tier gear + Difficulty slider fixed on x2 to fix the (imo) broken progression introduced by the leveling system changes of the Remaster.

ps neither of those disable achievements.

[iamoffline1]

Uhm, why not just play until you find yourself having difficulties (if they occur)? You could still pick it back up later once the fix is out.
I'm having like 1 crash every few hours, some area around skingrad seems to hate me. Other than that, some graphic glitches and bugs but nothing gamebreaking. Just make sure to have a few different save slots, in case something random happens. Yesterday did the FG quest in cheydinhal and the 3 npcs in the mine were stuck because somehow there were more rolling logs than the time i reloaded a save and tried again. Seems to be that famous "too many spawns"-glitch, which will even respawn single enemies while you're inside a dungeon.