I was wondering if clearing the cache is nessary when updating? Would I have to delete everything to start fresh for the best preformance? I have over 100 hours in, playing off disc, running 1.1 on slim xbox w/250g HD & havent had any major issues...knock wood. No freezes, crashs, texture issues, missing dragon souls or other wierd stuff. I have been running around mostly dungon diving. I have got as far as compleating the "Way of the voice" in the main quest line. I have done several misc quest. I have a bunch of quest open. I have been avoiding some like "Blood on the ice" because of some of the stuff seen on the fourm. I havent run into many broken quest yet, but I have only completed a hand full thus far. So do I need to clear the cache to get the best out of the patch?

No, on the consoles just let the patch update the game, hit a button to accept the update and play like normal

Not 100% sure man, but some people have needed to do so, before being able to actually attempt to download 1.3.

I didn't have to, but that does not mean that its the same across the bored.

Hope that helps!

Clearing cache will not erase your saved games, so why not... Clear cache,connect to Live, start Skyrim and that's that

Given that the cache was written by a previous version of the game, and since it hurts nothing to do it, it's not a bad idea at all.

Using the dashboard, I cleared the system cache.

Using the RB+LB+X while game starts cleared the game cache.

No, it's not needed.

You should only clear your cache when you have issues, you will have to re-download ALL updates for ALL of your games if you clear the cache.

Not all updates are stored in the system cache, only the small ones like what Bethesda has been releasing lately. Some games have large title updates that are stored in the HDD, like some of the updates for New Vegas or the most recent 2gig update for Battlefield 3. I did have to re-download a patch for Oblivion since messing with my cache, but this doesn't cause problems as these small updates only take a second or two to download.

That being said, I was wondering what the difference was between clearing the System Cache and clearing the Game Cache?...I remember with Oblivion you could hold "a" as the game started to clear the game cache, and this would help with Oblivion lagging and freezing up.

Xbox updates are small and take seconds to download.

Ok, thanks for the info. Someone posted clearing the game cache vs system cache. Is there a difference?

While not required it has been known to help with a couple things. Also with Skyrim is uses the cache for streaming. Unlike a huge update you DL/Install or content. Its just how they make there update patches. Its also why you don't loose saved data, think of it as cleaning your tmp folder in windows. Skyrim looks for the patch version in said folder hence why you have to redownload the dinky 3MB update.

Just updated from 1.1 to 1.3 and installed afterwards - no problems so far, roughly 3 hs. playtime with the new version. did not clear cache.