OKay so i took my 14 mb-80 hour mage for a spin to see how the game runs. I played for about 40 minutes (i'd get lag after this time) but the game was running fine when i was doing a random quest and so on. I noticed somethings, first, the general amount of FPS has been improved, the game is smoother when there is no lag, it's smoother than ever really. Then there is the other thing, the lag is better, sure (i even tested a dungeon with a lot of fog to see if it's better, and it is) but i noticed one tiny thing while playing. In 1.8 if you were sprinting through an open area, the game would load tiny bits, which resulted in slight lag. And now, the game loads everything in big chunks. What do i mean:
-1.8 lag while running through big wide open areas
-1.9 nice fps until the game decides to load up a big chunk, and that results in a 3-4 SECOND FREEZES, that is huge !
But i thought to myself "mmmkay i can tolerate this". So my play counter was 40 minutes i decided to go to solstheim (if i switched between solstheim and skyrim mid-session, the game would become unplayable) so i go tho solstheim and guess what.
The game runs great, so i'm amazed. I play a little and go back to skyrim. It's still stable .
I decided to go to the forgotten vale (by game always has problems with lag there) so i go there, explore a bit and....... a hard freeze during exploration. That never happenned to me before.

So generally speaking the game is better in terms of stability, better than ever.
But one little thing people have been reporting.... freezes. If it wasn't for them, i'd say our games are 100% playable, but that is not the case here. We need more, just one more patch and it might be the end of our struggle.

Guys, i'm sure you know that bethesda is moving on from skyrim.
We need to send this info to gstaff and make enough nosie, because if they leave the game like this:
why should i care for good fps if i get frezzes all the time ?!

So this is my take on the subject.