nomorepork
That was a left at Dragonbridge, right?
There looks to be some definite data read/corruption issues with older save files. Most of mine load, but I discovered that several seem to try really hard not to. And even with the ones that I can get running, there are video stability glitches when performing certain tasks, like with first-person shouts or blade battle moves. Third-person views seem to have less jumpy video.
In general I can move around the Skyrim map free of the game freezing up. Traveling in the Rift region was always the section of the map that gave me the most problems, even long before the freezes began. Now there are fewer hesitations when the software is reading from the disc or Xbox drive, and when there are pauses they're shorter in duration and the video stoppages are not as jerky as before.
That said, all is not perfect with the 1.6 upgrade. I managed to get the game to freeze once again, this time just east of Helgen when I tried to enter the Stormcloak camp. I was heading back to Riften on foot at the time and decided to stop in to see if there was a horse that I could, ahem, 'borrow'. The freeze took care of that idea. Also with several interior map load-ups the black load screen looked as if it was going to freeze, momentarily pause, then finally proceeded with the load. Very sketchy.
I've been selling off a lot of my hoard of stuff as quickly as I can to see if a smaller database for the game to manage makes any difference, but it's tough. I blow through The Riverwood Trader's available 10,000+ gold like it was nothing, then go on another quest and, BOOM, a ton more stuff to sell (I can't help it, I'm a wild and crazy hoarding looter...). Not enough shopkeepers with plenty of septums, despite all of the investing money I've tossed about all over Skyrim. It's even worse now that I can sell stolen loot pretty much everywhere, thanks to all of my 'investing'...
One 'problem' I had hoped 1.6 would have cleared up was the dead Blood Dragon carcass that shows up/seems to fall out of the sky whenever I go into a town in the eastern half Skyrim map. Harmless but annoying.
Side note rant: I REALLY wish those damn dragons would stop attacking, particularly the Ancients; I had hoped that their activity would die down after I killed off Alduin. Now all they do is come around at the most inconvenient time and kill NPCs and key related quest characters. Riverwood is virtually a ghost town thanks to all of the dragon attacks (apparently even attacking when I'm not actually in town or nearby--one visit, plenty of guards; the very next time through, all gone...and now more than half the residents are dead on top of that). It was rather depressing when I started a new character and game while waiting for 1.6 to come and be brutally reminded of how many NPCs there are in Riverwood at the very start of gameplay. Most of them that are now gone I didn't even see die in my original master quest.
Plus, I've already got 50+ dragon souls in the 'bank', and it's been ages since I've come across an unclaimed word wall.
But I must admit that i tend to make a new character like every two weeks and keep the files. But they are all deleted now.
