Quote Originally Posted by Syx View Post
Not as drastic as your system, but still a variance of about 2-6 ms in draw time. With culling disabled, my fps remained a constant 36-38 fps during the same panning action as well as stationary. Take into consideration my framebuffer usage is smaller due to running the game at 1080p. Might be time to upgrade your CPU! Hope this information helps.
Indeed, I am aware of my aging proc; Intel's genius decision of ceramic thermal paste in place of solder to attach the IHS to the cpu die, resulting in anywhere from 5c-10c higher temps accross the board has made me reluctant to do so, since I am not exactly a fan of the "de-lidding" concept as the modders refer to it as.

But in any case, going by the latest steam hardware survey, if this issue is a combination of CPU limitations and their admittedly insane draw distance which users cannot change--for example, I can be in the Alchemists guild and still get massive performance drops if I look in the direction of the marketboards--the performance issues related to it are overwhelmingly widespread; not even 15% of people in the survey would be using what could be considered a higher-end ivy/sandy or haswell proc, and since this game caps out at 4 cores/threads, AMD users are going to be in even dire straits.