hdd or ssd

[IceFire]

Stuttering when you're looking around is not likely to be the hard drive... I would suspect the video card or maybe slow RAM before hard drive. The game should be largely loaded into memory while your playing it with a few things perhaps loading in the background.

[jayrc]

probably the video card then, i think my ram is pretty fast, i'll have to play with some more settings i guess, thank you

[MaxGunz]

You've got 8G of RAM. The stock game should be able to completely load and run in half that, no? Buuuuut then there's the mega-load mod pack, of course....