Finally decided to start Skyrim back up

Quit a while back when I was around level 20 or so.

Started the game back up yesterday and I'm having an overwhelmingly abundant amount of freezing problems. Never had these problems before last time I played the game (many months ago). There doesn't appear to be any scratches on the disk. I googled and saw this was a common thing? I tried the advice I found online, clearing system cache, game cache, pruning saves, disabling autosaves, etc. The few times I'm able to make it past the start screen the game freezes about a minute or so in. Once it went about 30 minutes before freezing, but since then its been pretty consistently early.


Haven't checked in on this board in a while, was this a common issue? Was anyone able to fix it?


Thanks, just shooting in the dark here.


ETA: Don't have freezing problems on any other game.