The general populace of my game of Skyrim is diminishing steadily with all the Master Vampire attacks on the town killing many of the NPCs. Dragons I can put up with but now vampires as well!

The world now is starting to look a little barren as well as annoying... I'm tempted to delete the Dawnguard DLC to put a halt to this stupidity.

Is there another solution to this?

Don't like playing in an nigh on empty world

I hope you can use illusion. Pacify can work wonders and is highly effective at stopping vampires.

Or you could move to riften, the guards there are highly aggressive and numerous in numbers.

Nope

Melee character

I did the Fortify Restoration glitch to give me Fortify Archery by 50000. I can kill any enemy with one shot with the Bound Bow. I only use it in emergency situations like Dragon Attacks on cities and will be using it against the Vampires when they arrive on the PS3.