I've only ever had a couple of these in 500 hours of Skyrim and they were caused by mods which I tracked down and removed. This time around I'm five hours into a new game and I just got one walking past the Honningbrew Meadery, I spent an hour trying to re-create it with no luck so I don't think it's location specific.

Normally my Skyrim crashes are the usual dump to desktop with no message, I'm thinking those crashes have been solved by the memory patch as I haven't seen one yet. Now I'm suspecting my mod list as I've added quite a few new ones this time around, I'll paste it when I get back home.

Are Visual C++ crashes more commonly caused by mod issues or does Skyrim have yet another underlying issue I wasn't aware of?