Skyrim CPU usage

[Veladarius]

I think this may be an issue with my PC and not Skyrim. Earlier today my PC would not wake from sleep so I had to reset it. Since then my desktop has been defaulting to a lower resolution and Skyrim will only use 15% of the CPU where it was using 45% and my framerates have been cut in half. I have run a scan with my antivirus and found nothing. I am going to try updating my video drivers once AMD's site is working properly. If anyone has any other ideas what to look for I would appreciate it.

 

System Specs:

i5 2500k @ 3.7ghz

AMD 7850 w/ 2gb ram

16gb system ram

Windows 7 Premium - 64 bit

 

 

Edit:

Nevermind, I figured it out. The Sapphire overclocking utility decided to drop the clock speed from 920 to 400.

 

[Ark of Truth]

It's your PC. Check in Event Viewer for problems.

 

Sounds like your grwphics driver is beginning to break.