well says the patch is out but im from the UK and it says version 2.1? not 1.2 as well as that sometimes the patch dosent even come up and it just goes to a blank screen but when it does come up as an option i press it and it goes to a blank screen? is it cos everyones downloading it or what? cheers

As far as I know, there are two patches, 2.1 is the one that was released today.

I'm from the UK, I downloaded the first a few days ago and the second one this morning. I didn't have any problems, I just opted to download the patch and then I got the loading percentage bar as normal.

Could it be your system?

Delete the patch data you already have in the Game Data Utility folder on your PS3, then try again.

I will be brief.

Before the 2.0 patch, I had saved 11 MB, later, 9646 kb.
Then I played for 5 minutes, and after saving, 9675 kb.
In 5 minutes rose by 9 kb.
Today I will play best to see if the situation has improved, but if nothing has changed, I'm going to change the game

did that still cant download it and now cant play skyrim till i can download it

The servers may be temporarily unavailable, just try again later.

Huh? if the patch doesn't stop your save file growing you are returning the game?

lol im such a twonk i forget to update my system cos normally it says you need to update it to play online but it didnt done that then tried it didnt switched it off it then needed to rebuild its database then it worked

I will be brief. Save file size is not an issue, it wasn't that the problem also before. The problem was probably how the engine accessed to disk and how much data the game cached in RAM. Bigger save file = bigger changes in the world = in long session play too mach data cached so people noticed lag (that wasn't so bad as it was depicted by the horde). This patch, in theory, has improved how much data are cached and disk access. It's NORMAL that you filesize increase. Don't follow the whiny-i-dont-know-how-a-calculator-works-but-i-know-why-the-game-is-broken horde.

No it doesn't say 2.1 it says 2.01

Glad you got it sorted.

Give up matey.
I've been trying to explain that to people on here since day one... They don't want to listen.
Unless Barney the purple dinosaur or a Teletubbie explains it to them, they will never understand.

LOL I see where you are coming from although the file size was representative of when so much data was having to be cached and was not specific to installation environment so gave users a global yardstick to measure when framedrop bugs were more likely to become an issue.

Is that why installing SSD has proven an effective fix?

Probably, as the random access speeds of SSD's are way quicker than HDD's.

Sure, but i was replying at a guy shouting "omg, my filesize rose of 9KB!"