i disabled auto saving yesterday since i was noting from people on the forums here that that was known to decrease the amount of freezing that occurred within the game.I may have to start making saves half way between Windhelm and riften as before i get to Shor's stone, my game seems to freeze at a much higher rate then if i had auto saving on in the past, as that caused me no issues.

Any advice on what could be causing the freezing even with auto saving turned off.

Lots of nonsense causes freezing but I have no idea why no autosaves would make it worse. I guess turn autosaves back on and see how that goes.

This was happening to my friend too. As soon as he re-enabled auto-saving, it stopped freezing his game altogether. Skyrim gotta love it sometimes.

After 1.8, the game is a lot more stable with the on travel autosave on.