But when entering a building I can make a peanut butter and jam sandwhich, make a cup of coffee but I can also right this line out!

Now that I'm back to playing I thought I'd continue this topic. Why are the load times soooooo long? Yes I'm on PS3 but still I can think of many other games that are way bigger, or so I would think, and their save files are no were near 10mb, oh and I've only played for 109 hours... so what gives? I know people say "clean up after battles" and all that but that's like Bethesda punishing us for playing...

Every patch note I read for a new patch says that it fixed some memory managment but I dont' see it, after every patch update i don't see my saves go down a little bit, I see it jump allot, well did, now that I've hit 10mb oh wait! I addopted a kid it's now 11mb...

really Bethesda? I need an external harddrive just for Skryim...

So really though, what are the patch updates doing to the save files?

check how many saves you have. i had 500 saves in my saved games, loading screens took 5 minutes. narrowed my saves down to 10 for my current characters, loading screens are 20 seconds tops. idk how it works but it did for me

I have my main character, 109 hours, I have 3 others, a mage, thief and an orc, all are well bellow 10 hours and still takes FOREVER!!!!! No joke I'll leave my house to do somethign than by the time it loads I forget what I was going to do, reallllly annoying now that I have hearthfire...

Have you recently tried deleting Skyrim game data and reinstalling, then redownloading/installing the patches and DLCs? That tends to help performance a fair bit.

im talking about literally deleting saved games that you have. my saved games list was hefty and my game was running slower until i deleted most of my 550 or so saves

Save game deletion does help.

10 meg is a reasonable file though, I'm running at around 19 meg with my level 65 character.

A sandwich? Please. When the Dwemer Museum Key in my inventory began multiplying without my knowing, the save bloat got so bad that the game took about an hour and a half to start, and loading screens were rarely less than twenty minutes.

By the time I caught on, everything was in low-texture slow-mo, and I had about 3500+ Dwemer Museum keys. Solution? I put all but one in a body knowing it would despawn, and saved the last of them in Hjerim case I for some reason would need it again.

The moral of the story? Always watch out for cloning keys.