Well, I'll be picking this up (along with the Rebellion DLC) on the first.

Looking good.

@GFireflyE:

I feel your pain in regards to Steam.  Fortunately, I have had literally 0 Steam-related problems while installing/updating/playing LH.  But other games on the other hand... another story completely.  I could barely play Skyrim through Steam whatsoever (which their EULA states you "must" do to play).  After finding an illegal cracked executable to run a game I purchased legally, it ran like a breeze (breaking the "law" in order to play a game I purchased full-price retail.  Strange how that works, isn't it?).  Prior to actually playing vastly this superior version, I was hoping it would help, but thought perhaps I was just being paranoid, and at best it probably wouldn't be much different without Steam. 

Well... HOLY HELL WAS I WRONG.  Now without Steam, it completely eliminated all the constant crashing I was getting, caused the loading time upon Skyrim starting up from over 10 minutes to under 3 seconds (no exaggeration), improved framerate by double, among other benefits too good to be true.  God knows what Steam was doing to that game (and my computer) under the hood.

And this was less than a year ago, so Steam is still... pretty bad.  Why it's so widely accepted by gamers is beyond me, perhaps aside from it's frequent 'super-sales'.  Again, I'm obviously not just 'bashing Steam' as everything worked without a hitch for LH so far.  But I certainly feel your pain.

Thank you for this DLC, I'm really enjoying the additional content.

The new Assassin armor is a visual treat. Bonesplinter is a fitting mount for the future sovereign of Elemental.

I would like to add my voice to ask for "MORE".

What you described is not a universal problem experienced by people who have Skyrim. I never experienced this problem and I have a few hundred hours into Skyrim.

The problem is most likely not Steam and most likely is your system. It may be that all you needed was a fresh Skyrim install. Your original install may have had some performance issues due to mods - one that was fairly popular for causing significant problems with Skyrim was a modification to the config files that improved the map view. Unfortunately, it also caused constant crashing in various locations introduced by Dawnguard.

I own dozens of game through Steam and I have had exactly one serious issue - one of the games (I forget which one) did something to my display settings that made the monitor unable to display anything. This was easily corrected by doing a safe boot and changing the display settings to something my monitor could manage. I believe that game's problem has since been fixed.

The real answer is likely somewhere in the middle - sometimes it's other factors, sometimes it's Steam, and sometimes it's both.

If it's a problem that is not common to steam users, then why would it be Steam?

I did not say it could never be Steam, either, but that particular problem was not Steam.

Gotta love Steam haters . . . every time something goes wrong it must be Steam's fault. 

^

Similar for me,

And then there are experiences like mine.

The app works like a charm. Install. Work. Took 1 try and the install went through fine and it installed EXACTLY where I wanted it to. Including having Steam on my Hard Drive and the games installed on my Solid State Drives.

To say the least I avoided piracy in any form and get the most from the Steam format.

True story. For every good there is a bad. I'm not saying its not frustrating for you, but I am saying it works brilliantly for me.

EDIT my steam name is StormbringerGT if you want to see how long I've been a user (8 years) and how many games I have (250 +). I have to go out and say when steam launched and for a few years after that it was rough. Very rough. Completely different unifying platform today.

Hey guys quick question. I installed the new DLC, I'm in late mid game, and so far the only new thing I've encountered is the wildlands fort.

I have monsters and quest set to dense, and everything else set to average.

Are there other settings I should adjust to increase the likelyhood of encountering the new content?

Weird question - I came across Bonesplinter and defeated him (by snatching him with my beastmaster), but there was no more dialogue.  Was that it?

Thanks, harpo.  It was bugging me that perhaps there was something I was missing.  For what it's worth, he's not bad as a fighter, although I wonder how he would have done as a mount.  Perhaps next time I'll attack and see how he is that way.