Skyrim's 1.3 update is live on PC, heading to consoles now

Skyrim's 1.3 patch is live for PC and XBLA, . The update's also live on PSN outside of North America, with this territory to be added very š“†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.

Above: If your response to this image is "sweet, that sucker's on the run now," this patch comes just in time

The mosą¶£t 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 š“‚ƒon 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.