Sorry guys if this question has already been hammered out -- I searched but did hit upon anything.

Basically I had set aside Skyrim for a couple of months, and only just recently got back into it with the Dawnguard DLC. I haven't encountered any problems or performance issues yet, but notice that the overall memory and vram usage is lower than in previous patches. Has anyone else noticed that this is the case?

Thats one of the 1.7 main features, memory optimizations... after this patch the game became super stable.