PS3 users have been reporting severe Skyrim performance issues over the last couple of weeks, and now it appears that Bethesda has released a patch to solve the problems - in Europe at least. According to Bethesda forum members, the 92MB patch has alleviated several issues, improving the frame rate and reducing the number of freezes. Some users, however, are reporting that the patch doesn't fix the problem and a system restart is still required every few hours.

We've contacted Bethesda to find out exactly what the PS3 patch contains. For the moment, the Xbox 360 patch, which is supposed to iron out some texture scaling issues and is also slated for release this week, is not yet available.