I played Oblivion back when the 360 came out. It was my first 360 game. I had alot of fun. Eventually I got tired of the weird scaling and levelling and moved on to shooters. When Fallout 3 came out I jumped aboard and absolutely LOVED the game. I also enjoyed New Vegas.(well several months after I bought it when Obsidian finally fixed enough glitches that I could play for more than 10 hours...)

So I got super excited with the announcement of Skyrim and had it preordered right after I saw the Original teaser online. And had that bad boy paid off in early Jan.

The 5th year anniversary was just released and I saw that it included a couple expansions that I never saw originally and figured it would be a good time to play it again. Now that I have played several hundred hours of the BGS formula I figured I could tackle the game in a new light. So I bought it, threw it into my 360 and even managed to make a female Dunmer that actually looked very nice. Half an hour in and things are looking roses...

Then I got control of my character...

WTF! The game lags like CRAZY! The game has to literally stop and think when I give it a command. Use a spell... STOP. Pull out my sword... STOP. Loot a body... STOP.

I dont remember the game being so horribly laggy. I regret picking it up. I never imagined that the game would run so poorly after being out for so long. What is the issue with performance. I just got to the part where you have your first fight. And I dont want to go any further, if this is the way it plays in a interior cell with few npcs and objects, I hate to see what will happen in the overworld.

I installed the game to my hdd & I cleared the cache. Is there nothing else I can do?

Im starting to rethink my Skyrim preorder. Ive now had issues with Beth products of late. New Vegas which I also preorder was unplayable for a couple of months. By the time it was playable it was bargain bin. That was upsetting. Brink and Hunted were underwhelming to say the least, heck im glad that I played those at a friends house and DIDNT buy them. The 5th year anniversary is extremely disappointing. :sadvaultboy:

I dont want to have to return it, but I will if there is nothing I can do about the unacceptable performance. Any advice my comrades?

For starters, dont blame Bethesda for Hunted and Brink not being good, they were just a publishers, not the developers....

However do blame Betehsda for not enforce stricter bug testing upon games they publish....bethesda are getting a really bad rap for all these sub-par buggy games they are publishing, which as you can see from your statement, will make people satrt to question their brand, whether they publish or develop a game. (A big downside of having you publsihing studios and your developing studios having the same name).


I dont have an Xbox, but from what I've heard this re-release is not a revived version of the game.....so if it's playing tihs badly, then so would a copy from 2006....so it might be because of something on your end.

Hi, THUORN.

I'm no expert with technology, but some people report that deleting their oblivion cache upon start up can remove lag. It's worth a shot anyhow.

I know that NV, Brink & Hunted arent BGS. But they are Beth games. People do buy them because their name is LITERALLY on the box. New Vegas I purchased on the good will Beth had built up threw reputation and my experience with Oblivion in 06 and the utter awesomeness that was Fallout 3.

If it wasnt that I needed to wait a few days to get Brink & Hunted(pay day is friday, not tuesday) and was lucky enough to have a friend that was a big Beth fan(he is questioning his loyalty right now) that got svckered into buying the brand instead of the game. I would have been stuck with some serious weak sauce.

As far as it being a problem on my end... Thats entirely possible. Although I just threw in Fallout 3 & NV. And tried out Just Cause 2 and Red Dead. Just to see if my box was having any issues. Everything is gravy baby. Its 5th Anniversary thats stuttering up a storm.

Whats up chief. As you can tell I already tried that. :sadvaultboy:

After a few reboots and i believe 7 cleared cache attempts, she is actually running better.

So I guess it was my end. She is still laggy, but it feels like a normal Gamebryo game now. LOL

Although, 2 days of lamenting a purchase and my memories of recent Beth games, has still affected my general feelings about gamesas(although i have a lot of love for BGS remaining).

Katalyst I should thank you personally. Although I had already cleared cache thrice. I decided to keep doing it and hope. I guess perseverance actually paid off.

Let's close this for duplication as it is being discussed in the Skyrim forum.