GTX 780 running <20 fps at Revenant's Toll, normal?

I recently upgrade my graphic card from 560 Ti to 780, and expecting a really smooth game.
Well it is, until I got to Revenant's Toll and point my camera to the crystal, the frame rate just drop below 20 fps.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, have the latest driver installed, my other hardware are not top class but still quite decent: CPU i7 930, 12 GB Memory.

The game graphic setting is set to maximum, is this normal or something wrong with my computer?

Thanks.

http://i.imgur.com/00qDWY6.png

that's bizarre should run flawlessly, i have i5, 8 gb ram and gtx 680 and i get 50-60 fps

I Use the same setup as you, and i can only recommend to go back to 331.65 - the new drivers decreased my fps in Toll to about 20-30fps.

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Originally Posted by Raiadin

that's bizarre should run flawlessly, i have i5, 8 gb ram and gtx 680 and i get 50-60 fps

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At Revenant's Toll? With all those people crowding the crystal?

no, when its prime time and everyone's on i get a steady 25-30ish

Areas where there are a lot of players such as cities and Revenant's Toll is very CPU intensive. Doesn't matter how powerful your video card is, the only way to increase your FPS in these areas is a faster CPU or overclock it.

I seen my i7 3930k @ 4.5 Ghz go down to 45 FPS when it's super busy and angle camera just right.

Edit: I went and confirmed my findings. I can get as low as 30 FPS with tons of players in screen, zoomed out. This is using latest beta drivers.

i have 2 670's and an i7 3770k, i still drop in toll to like 30-40 fps or so.

I have a lesser set-up than you and I run on max graphics at 45 - 50 FPS in the same area.

As people have said, it's the area you're in. Your CPU isn't bad, but it is several generations old, and if it's not OC'd it would explain the low fps in a crowded area. With that many people around the CPU starts to become the issue. I get 60 FPS in that area.

The recent NVIDIA card driver increases the FPS. It's the area that you are in as your CPU is struggling to load the characters on the screen.