So im coming from some barrow on the east part of whiterun hold after a long over encumbered walk. Once im in whiterun and sell my stuff i head to the bannerd mare. A millisecond before i press x to open the door, the dude with black lips from yorsker comes out and end up talking to him by mistake, then one second after my game pauses on its own and it freezes. 1.6 is crashfest much?

Seems so. 360 and PC forums have seen a massive spike in crash reports since 1.7 too. It's increasingly looking like 1.7 has disrupted something in the game, this could be why the patch has failed certification in Europe.

Side note: it's these sorts of crashes that make me the one guy on the forum who says this idea of disabling autosaves is just asking for trouble.