I gave installed the 1.2 patch, and I notice no difference 
appart from the "area" load times. It still takes 5 min to load from a saved game, and still takes 3 to 4 min for a first time area load. also noticed that the "cats eye" potion now has the visual affect still active Issue, instead of "blizzard"
appart from the "area" load times. It still takes 5 min to load from a saved game, and still takes 3 to 4 min for a first time area load. also noticed that the "cats eye" potion now has the visual affect still active Issue, instead of "blizzard"a way to lower save load times might be to remove excess save games I cleared out heaps and its a heap faster, only really need latest one anyways (Devs PLEASE make quicksave and autosave hold positions 1 and 2 in your save game array and let the other save games populate the latter in the array
Save and load times are down to -2 seconds 90% of the time for me... 5-10 seconds for the first load, and large area changes.Besides, they can't abolish load times, and I think they did much more than most Game Devs would have done (Mots would have done nothing for load times...) I would want 1.3 to address the Automatic Sheathing issue.