So i installed this wonderful game and started to play. After several hours(just north of Novac) I died, and the game tried to load the last save, which failed and the game crashed.

Ever since that point I have been unable to load any of the save games, neither quick, auto or manual saves can be loaded without the game crashing with a popup window telling me that "falloutNV has stopped working"

And this is after the patch has been applied that is said to solve the save game problem!
Anyone else having this problem?

Take a look at this thread and see if it's something similar, as far as I know, this has nothing to do with the Save Fix in the patch. It seems to be bad data written to saved files.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1127009-saved-game-crashes-on-loading/page__gopid__16544636&#entry16544636