I am pleased to inform that I finally made it to Dragonslayer on the PS3. After the lagging was obvious I replaced the internal drive with a hybrid 320Gb drive which clearly made the system work flawless. The 1.4 patch fixed some major issues in Markarth and I was able to finish the game completely in about 300 hours where my save file is still only 13Mb. I cannot say enough about this game. I know there are issues, I know there are people stuck but in the end I enjoyed it to no end. I hope you all will make it to dragonslayer and that you are able to finish side quests and main quests. I did not use any exploits or cheats though I did read about them, but I cannot believe it that in the end the game was over.... I am now looking forward to any DLC to keep playing.