Skyrim is Stuttering!

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Apr 17, 2014
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Hello everybody! I downloaded Skyrim 3-4 months ago and it ran perfectly at 60 FPS throughout the entire duration me playing it. Now, however, Skyrim is stuttering, and it has been this way for the past month. Most of the time, it is only when I am moving. Also, Skyrim takes around a minute to launch within Steam, this problem also came around the time of the stuttering. My PC specs are
CPU: A10-6790K 4.0 GHZ QUAD CORE
RAM:4GB DDR3 RIPJAWS 1866MHZ
GPU:RADEON R7 265
MOTHERBOARD:MSI-A55M-E33
POWER SUPPLY: XFX 550 WATT POWER SUPPLY
 
It's just a guess, but the HDD might be fragmented? Skyrim's LoD system passes a lot of information through the HDD, so if it's become fragmented that may be an issue. Try defragmenting it. I believe Windows has a utility built in for that.

Are you having issues in other games or just Skyrim?
Do you have any mods installed?