so basically when i keep passing Pinewatch the game completely freezes forcing me to restart the game system and the game this is about the third time now.....

Bethesda just a word of advice: when you get new patches for games for the love of god run some scenarios and tests first to see if there is ANY way of going around these issues

just saying

but yeah does anyone ELSE have the same problem or something similar

I was having this problem for a while near Sarethi Farm in the Rift Hold. It seemed to stop freezing near this location after clearing the cache. I still get random freezes when walking around and on loading screens a lot though. By the way, this is all after installing the 1.9 update, so Bethesda has clearly goofed something up in terms of game stability once again. I rarely had any freezes with the 1.8 update installed and when I did they were during loading screens. It's sad that Bethesda can't seem to stop this annoying issue, because I've never had this problem with any other game, with the exception of Oblivion, but even that was rare.