 At the launch of Skyrim , many technical issues ranging in severity were being reported . Some examples include a texture down @-@ scaling issue on the Xbox 360 version when the game was run from the hard drive ; crashes , slowdown and frame rate issues on the PlayStation 3 version when save files exceeded 6 MB , commonly occurring due to extended game play times ; and various crashes and slowdowns on the Windows version . According to Skyrim 's director Todd Howard , the conception of ' restrictive RAM ' is incorrect : " It 's literally the things you 've done in what order and what 's running . " 
