After testing the patch i had to crashes this evening thats a major improvement so it looks like they have helped things but still along way to go yet before my finger stops hovering over the quick save key.

Steam still won't listen to me when I tell it not to update games automatically though :-/

PS: Keep up the good work!

When i use dragonrend some dragons fly away like i cast a fear spell on them, sometimes they land far away from me.

When i kill someone sometimes they lie on the ground all stiff like, and the eyes are still blinking like hes still alive, strange stuff.

I think this patch has done bad things for me now.

The landing far away is actually the fix for those dragons that would not fight you or fight then fly away before they were killed. Before this, if the dragon couldn't find a place to land it would bug out and it would leave.

Dead folk dead with blinking eyes, always been there... even in Oblivion, Fallout 3/NV. The stiff thing... check to see if your weapon does a paralyze effect. I use a bow that paralyzes and it's kind of funny to watch em topple over like a log, or killing a bear and it stays standing on all fours. There was a Wolf bug (it never mentioned anything but wolves doing this) that was fixed, but the things I kill that become stiff is because of my paralyze weapon.

Yeah Steam forced update on me as well. The 1.3 update just broke my game with my third character, that I have over 40 hours into. Thieves guild quests are broken, one of the things this patch was supposed to fix is bookshelf issues which I had not till this patch, now all my books have disappeared from my bookshelves. Becoming Thane in at least Solitude is broken and the Housecarl never shows up at your home. Bards quests broken and probably many others , but I quit playing at this point since the game seems pretty much unplayable at this point.