Skyrim's 1.3 patch is live for PC and XBLA, Bethesda reports. The update's also live on PSN outside of North America, with this territory to be added very soon. Steam and Xbox players can download the patch immediately, which fixes minor annoyances from the previous update and initial release as well as improving general stability.
The most widely-noted fix of this patch will probably be the game's notorious backwards-flying dragons, who began appearing (along with other highly amusing variations) after last week's patch. Also remedied are that patch's issues with magic resistance; the full patch notes are below.
Update 1.3 Notes (all platforms unless specified)
General stability improvements
Optimize performance for Core 2 Duo CPUs (PC)
Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles
Fixed magic resistances not calculating properly
Fixed issue with placing books on bookshelves inside player purchased homes
Fixed dragon animation issues with saving and loading
Fixed Y-look input to scale correctly with framerate
Bethesda notes that a further PC-specific patch next week will address the current version's problems on machines with more than 2GB of memory, allowing improved performance and stability. We've been running the 360 patch for some hours now and our machine has thoroughly failed to explode spectacularly, which is actually a bit disappointing but mainly a good thing.
