Skyrim - Major Frame Rate Drops & Stuttering

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Ok, I know everyone has seen or read about lag with skyrim but my problem is a little bit different.

When i start the game it runs at the fixed 60 fps and plays smoothly, however after only a minute i have huge frame drops that come out of nowhere and in between is huge stuttering that makes the game unplayable. It doesn't matter where on skyrim i am, one second im at 60fps and then it drops to 16 and just goes up and down and doesn't go back to normal. It doesn't even matter what detail setting im on, from low to ultra it runs awesome for only a minute then it stuffs up again. I don't play with any mods so thats not the problem.I have completely reinstalled the game dozens of times. I have nothing running in the background apart from the things that are meant to be and my anti-virus software and even then with that turned off i still get it bad frame rates.

I have updated my drivers, clean reinstalled the game, updated my bios, optimised the game setting through nvidia but nothing helps.

Computer specs are:
Acer Aspire V3 - 772G UltraBook
Processor - Intel Core i7-470MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz (8 CPUs) with Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz
Memory - 16 GB DDR3 L
Video Card - NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
OS - Windows 10

My computer meets all the recommended requierments as shown on canyourunit.com so it should be able to run without trouble. I have also tried running the game in different compatibility modes and that doesn't help. The computer also runs around 55°C at idle but when playing games it gets up to 90°C-100°C so i guess that could have something to do with it.

I just don't know what to do anymore.
Anyhelp would be much appreciated.
 
Sounds like an overheating issue to me.

Download HWMonitor and leave it running when you launch Skyrim. Exit or Alt+Tab when the problem occurs and check the CPU package temperature and GPU temperature. If either of these are reaching 90-100C, then overheating is definitely the problem.

Do you know if the GT 750M in your laptop is the DDR3 or GDDR5 version? The latter is far superior to the former.
 
Also I would like to add try running the game on high with all the distance sliders put to full. For some reason even though I have an i5 4460 and GTX 970 if I put the game to ultra I get frame rate drops in cities (CPU and GPU are at like 30%) but if I put the game on high then max the distances I'm totally fine with a solid 60fps 1080p

I think the game is hardware limited, meaning it can't access all your hardware resources. Well when this game came out it was for dual core computers as quad core hadn't really come into the market. So CPU's with great single core performance work well with this game

The same goes for Fallout 3. Skyrim uses a upgraded version of Fallout 3's engine and Fallout 4 uses an upgraded version of Skyrim engine, so just shoddy engine work.

Regards