Bethesda is working on a patch for the Skyrim Anniversary Edition update

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black-screen bug on loading saves, which is even affecting players who don't use mods. (Apparently, completing the Civil War questline consistently sets it off.) 

There's also been a general increase in freezes, infinite loading screens, and PlayStation s are reporting the return of an old glitch that tells them they need to free up "0 kb on the system storage" to play. (Here's a post about it from two years ago—it's apparently caused by Creation Club content.)

On Discord, Bethesda has said, "We are aware of the 0kb error some PS4 players are experiencing as well as the 'black screen' issue. The team has been working on a fix for these (it's taking a little longer than we'd like) and hopes to have them resolved as soon as we can." A patch is in the works, and should be ready "early next week".

In the meantime, modders have come to the rescue. There's a rollback mod for reverting to version 1.5.97 and work has resumed on EngineFixesSkyrim64, with a version for the Anniversary Edition currently in beta

Jody Macgregor
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Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he re having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.