Patch 2 actually made the title screen stop acting up on my AMD 3820 quad core, no more hard CPU spikes so I can easily make it into the game now, and the load times are pretty short, even on my 5400 HDD (so fast that I can't read codexes). Before the patch, it was a complete mess, I had to disable a core just to make it stop grinding my CPU long enough to load a save. In some cases, it seems like Patch 2 helped people already having problems, and created problems for people who didn't have them. Great.
The only thing up in the air is how long I'll be able to play before I get a CTD, but a tiny improvement is better than nothing.
