I did not notice a difference at all in lag issues, I noticed it has gotten worse since the new patch released today. I have a 9mb (which seems kind of small in comparison to other peoples comments) save file, I'm level 48 and am about 60 or so hours in . The game has frozen on me 3 times during a 3 hour period tonight. The PS3 is pretty new and has no issues with anything else. My belief is that the new patch has made the game worse for me. I only had one actual game freeze during the previous patch, now with the new patch I have had 3 crashes in 3 hours....

Lag is still very bad, the game lags out then crashes.

Please Bethesda please do something....

Oh, also I am noticing problems now with NPCs accepting quest turn ins or starting quest. I go to the marked NPC and the option for that particular quest dialogue is not there, I will either stand around for about 5 minutes (real life time) or zone out to another place and zone back in then usually they will have the option available. This never happened before this patch either for me. I'm thinking lag time is slowing things down?

The quest Ive had trouble with so far is

The imperial faction quest, just started it and its been the first 5 in the quest line.
Dark brother hood forever, walk up to night mother and she sits there and after a few minutes will start talking to me.
Thieves guild side quest turn ins to delvin, the dialogue to turn in the quest wont appear till I zone out or wait a few minutes.
Thats all so far, after 3 crashes I gave up and am going to sleep lol.

Which auto save features do people recommend I turn off? Will that help at all? If so which ones should I leave off?

Its a great game. I'm just sad its had so many technical issues. I probably should have given it about 6 months to a year to get fixed before buying it though

Thanks for reading my bug report.