Ok from what i'v seen from the screen shots and gameplay videos a question has been burning inside my brain wondering if this game is going to have lag on console systems.

I mean even with a new ps3 slim i got Oblivion still has lag at spots....and dont get me started on fallout new vegas. But from the size of this game....if this game is going to generate as much land at one time like they do in fallout and oblivion (meaning being able to see far in the distence and so forth) will consoles be able to handle that much?

Lag doesn't make a game bad though. Heck i LOVE oblivion and bethesda's games and ill play it even if i get only 1 fps....well maybe not 1fps....but ill still play it if it lags as much as fallout but i will be frustrated with it....along with everyone else.

A seemless framerate is hard to achieve even on most high-end pc's for Beth games it seems. So yeah, that will definitely be there. Though I don't mind really. The choppy camera turns actually even add a bit to the atmosphere. A fine example is the first Thief game .

EDIT: There are even slight moments of lag in the offical trailer. I kind of respect them for not hiding things like this so you can have a very clear impression of what it's really going to be like.

Of course itll lag- what kind of question is that? The real question is how much? ^_^

I'll let you know after i play it. I mean come on...seriously?

A lot of the lag is load lag. Off of a low-standard hard drive like you find in a console this is fairly bad, but off optical media?

Well, install your games, folks.

Yes, it will lag. Every game lags. TES games have a tendency to lag, so I wouldn't count on a perfect framerate the entirety of hte game.

Of course it'll lag. But I don't think it'll be quite Advent Rising levels of lag, it'll be more along the lines of what we've seen in Oblivion.

Their old engine was much worse, so hopefully not. However, in a game where you can do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9LrkQO-YQs the potential load the player can put on the console is very high and thus impossible to design for really.

You have to upgrade your... Oh wait a PS3?

This Game came out 2 Years ago and My PC cant run it, so yea Skyrim will Lag and it seems im gonna have to Save for a Better PC in 2 Years time before i can run Skyrim :brokencomputer:
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This is the Graphcs Card im gonna buy when Skyrim comes out, the Game better not come up with a Geforce 600 Card. :brokencomputer:
Leadtek? nVidia? GeForce GTX570 - 1280MB GDDR5, 320-Bit Memory Bus, PCI Express 2.0, 2x DVI, 1x Mini HDMI, HDCP Compliant
Core: 732MHz / Shader: 1464MHz / Memory: 3800MHz, DirectX 11, OpenGL, nVidia? CUDA & PhysX, nVidia SLI - Win Vista / 7 Certified

Dude, a game's age isn't the only factor that determines whether your computer can run it. Dirt 2 was a very graphics and CPU intensive game. There weren't very many settings to decrease to make it run smoother, either.

Just as an example, Crysis came out in 2007, and it barely chugs on my current computer, and yet I can run Civilization V, which came out just last year, just fine.

Thasts what im worried about, what if Skyrim will be Heavily Graphics Based

It will be heavily graphics intensive, and you'll probably need a newer card to play, but it will have options to improve performance by decreasing the level of detail in the environment and such.

Civilization V gave me the same type of Core that i need, yet Crysis pass with Flying Color on Maximum no problem.

By the way, is it save for my PC to be playing Games in a Cupboard
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Well, this is a new engine afterall, perhaps the freezing and lots of glitches issues have been fixed? Or gotten worse? I think the PS3 version honestly will be the worst system to play this on, and it hurt me to say that. Since I own it.

Yes no, maybe, I don't know, can you repea... er, I mean, I don't know. There are obvious issues with air circulation in there, so you should grab a copy of SpeedFan or similar software and check your temperatures - if they're getting very hot (Which they could be with bad airflow) your components will downclock to prevent damage, resulting in a slower computer.

I first bought fallout 3 on ps3 because i didn't know it was available on pc, but i didn't experience any lag with it. Then again... i didn't get a lot past first seeing megatron before i bought the pc version.

About a month before TES IV Oblivion was released i just got my hands on a new Pc who was able to run the game on the highest settings without any lag or visual delays, it was perfection. I threw it away because it was getting quite old and wasn't able to play games as it used to... I'm getting a new one a few months before Skyrim is released again and i'm sure it'll run it perfectly .

Honestly with consoles i don't think there will be any lag in them. The game's graphics usually get stripped until the game can run it perfectly. But if you play for several hours in a row your console might be getting a bit too hot which usually results in lag. At least that's what happened when i was playing Fable III. It acctually got so hot it melted the cd... Bye xbox and Fable III :'(

As far as low Fps or any other type of computer lag goes it totally ruins gaming for me... Oblivion ran perfectly, but it still crashed every few hours which isn't so bad, but if you get the same delay every minute or so i wouldn't even bother playing it... Best thing i can suggest is simply get a decent Pc, and play it on that. The experience will be so much better then.

Well don't forget that Oblivion 1)ran on a very old engine already, and 2)wasn't nicely coded for stability. Graphics don't matter that much actually. I mean, take Mass Effect for example, the 1st one was full of graphics bugs and lag, yet the second one, looked better and ran quite a lot more smoothly.

But yeah, now they know the hardware they're working on. they can take the time needed to balance the framerate and stability.

I don't mind the lag at all as long as it doesn't freeze my PS3 like oblivion

Alienware FTW!