Caching happens over the ”normal course of gameplay,” but it can be cleared by playing other titles. Save games ”could also potentially take longer” to load if the cache is cleared.
What’s the lesson here? It’s best really if you optionally install Skyrim to the hard drive, which is about 3.8GB of space. A day one patch nudges all platform versions of Bethesda’s Skyrim to 1.1.
”Skyrim makes heavy use of caching to the hard-drive, and the initial load could take more time if the game is not fully cached already, or installed to the hard-drive,” read a Bethesda note.
”Caching takes place over the normal course of gameplay, but can be cleared by playing other games or manually cleared in the Xbox Dashboard. Save game load times could also potentially take longer if the cache is cleared.” The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC today. Check out our review for why we love dragon slaying.
