Just thought Id let some of you know, there's a major bug out there that will happen eventually if you have Shivering Isles installed/downloaded on EITHER the PC or the 360.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6168807.ht … ws;title;2
The Shivering Isles expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion adds a new land to explore--the Realm of Madness--along with 30 hours of new gameplay, new creatures, dungeons, and quests. For some users, it also includes a bug that could break the game.
Bethesda Softworks has confirmed that a major glitch in The Elder Scrolls IV: The Shivering Isles exists and that it is working to fix the problem. The bug apparently starts affecting the game as soon as the expansion pack is installed for the PC version of Shivering Isles. The problem arises because the game generates a huge number of identification numbers internally for objects, and once the allotted space for those numbers becomes exhausted, newly created objects will disappear from the gameworld and the game could simply crash.
Depending on the number of frames per second generated on a user's PC, the game will be "rendered unplayable" from between 50 to 120 hours of gameplay, according to reports in the official forums and the game's Wiki. It appears that the more frames per second the game runs at, the faster that space of identification numbers fills up.
"We have verified this problem can happen on the PC and are still looking into whether it is possible on 360, since we don't have any reported cases of it happening on that platform, nor have we been able to recreate it on 360 ourselves," a Bethesda spokesperson told GameSpot. "We're testing a fix for it right now and hope to have it out as soon as possible."
Its also been confirmed on the 360. IF YOU HAVE SHIVERING ISLES, YOU HAVE THIS BUG. The only question is if you will contact it before a fix is released.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:Reference_Bug
Ive played somewhere around 10 hours after downloading SI on my 360 and have seen nothing wrong. But to be sure, Im going to stop playing and make extra copies of my saved game. Go to the link above to get an unofficial fix, for those of you 360 players as you know youll have to wait for a fix via Live.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6168807.ht … ws;title;2
The Shivering Isles expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion adds a new land to explore--the Realm of Madness--along with 30 hours of new gameplay, new creatures, dungeons, and quests. For some users, it also includes a bug that could break the game.
Bethesda Softworks has confirmed that a major glitch in The Elder Scrolls IV: The Shivering Isles exists and that it is working to fix the problem. The bug apparently starts affecting the game as soon as the expansion pack is installed for the PC version of Shivering Isles. The problem arises because the game generates a huge number of identification numbers internally for objects, and once the allotted space for those numbers becomes exhausted, newly created objects will disappear from the gameworld and the game could simply crash.
Depending on the number of frames per second generated on a user's PC, the game will be "rendered unplayable" from between 50 to 120 hours of gameplay, according to reports in the official forums and the game's Wiki. It appears that the more frames per second the game runs at, the faster that space of identification numbers fills up.
"We have verified this problem can happen on the PC and are still looking into whether it is possible on 360, since we don't have any reported cases of it happening on that platform, nor have we been able to recreate it on 360 ourselves," a Bethesda spokesperson told GameSpot. "We're testing a fix for it right now and hope to have it out as soon as possible."
Its also been confirmed on the 360. IF YOU HAVE SHIVERING ISLES, YOU HAVE THIS BUG. The only question is if you will contact it before a fix is released.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:Reference_Bug
Ive played somewhere around 10 hours after downloading SI on my 360 and have seen nothing wrong. But to be sure, Im going to stop playing and make extra copies of my saved game. Go to the link above to get an unofficial fix, for those of you 360 players as you know youll have to wait for a fix via Live.