I purchased Hearthfire today but something has gone horribly wrong. Shortly after loading the game and loading my Lv, 66 character, I noticed that the game became progressivly slower when loading new cells. My boot up load is taking roughly 8 minutes, loading the overworld takes anywhere from 3-8 minutes, and loading even small rooms like the Jarl's house in dawnstar takes as long as three minutes. When the game auto-saves it takes at least a minute to unlock. The game is installed to the drive, (it is a disk copy) and I have attempted to clear the system cache. I even uninstalled all the DLC and nothing seems to work. I tried loading a character that hasn't been played in months and that too is affected. The game has become unplayable. Please advise me on what I should do because this is totally unacceptable. A broken quest is one thing but 10 minute load times? If this is a known issue then I would appreciate knowing if a patch that will fix the damage is forthcoming.

Holy crap, how big are your saves right now?

Yep, i noticed that, too. Since Heartfire, my loading times are at least twice as long as before. Maybe even x3. Pretty annoying when you spend almost more time looking at loading screens, than playing the actual game. ;_;

@ NeoPenPen: Can't speak for the OP, but it seems like my save got ~1MB bigger. Compared it to a save from right before downloading Hearthfire.

Seeing your avatar made that sentence so much better! lol

For me it take a 1 min and 2 sec for my game to load. Really annoying.