I had recently purchased skyim and played for nearly 50 hours with no major errors (the casual glitch here and there) but then suddenly, out of no where, i'm having major screen issues. There is massive input lag, very slight screen taring, and lagging graphics. For example, if we forget about the input lag for a moment, when you would press W (move forward) my character would show movement for a moment, freeze, then jump a few frames to where there was movement again. I suppose that would be a frame rate issue after explaining it.. In any case, that in addition to the incredible input lag makes the game virtually unplayable. (there is at least 1-2.5 seconds of lag, where there used to always be very SLIGHT mouse lag, perhaps half a second or so, now it is much much worse.)

At first i thought it was an issue with the mod's i had downloaded from the steam Workshop, but after disabling all of them the issue persisted, then I tried reducing all my settings to the bare minimum (even though my system should be able to handle nearly maxxed out settings - will post my spec's at the end of this) but still the game was choppy and lagging. I've tried restarting my computer (as i do have a habbit of leaving my computer on for a few days at a time in order to download things over, night, ect) but still the issue persists. I also attempted to verify the integrity of my game cache via steam, and after that there was still this issue. I'm completely at a loss of what to do. While its not the end of the world, and I do have other games i can play, i would very much like to get to the bottom of this issue, so i can once again try to save Skyrim from those blood thirsty dragons!


Here's my computer's spec's (self built from newegg.ca) using the program Speccy:

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
AMD Processor
AMD Processor
AMD Processor
AMD Processor
AMD Processor
AMD Processor
AMD Processor
AMD Processor
RAM
12.0 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-990FXA-UD3 (Socket M2) 31 °C
Graphics
SONY TV (1920x1080@60Hz)
1279MB GeForce GTX 570 (nVidia) 33 °C
Hard Drives
977GB Seagate ST31000528AS ATA Device (SATA) 29 °C
244GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JD-75HBC0 ATA Device (SATA) 34 °C
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH10L ATA Device
TUJYL ZGTE3GP SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
USB Multi-Channel Audio Device



the CPU i'm using is AMD FX(tv)-8102 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~3.1GHz



If anyone has encountered this same issue, or knows of how i could fix it i greatly appreciate any help you can offer.
Thanks
-Dishes