Hello everyone, I have been having problems with low framerate for a while, actually since I've been playing the game but it's really bothering me, since I believe I have a system that should be powerful enough to run the game on the maximum settings while staying on a solid 60FPS, but I'm always running at 20-40 FPS regardless of my settings, sometimes even lower in heavily populated areas such as cities.

I've been googling for hours trying to find a fix, yet nothing really helped, while a friend of mine with a similar, but weaker, machine runs the game without any problems on 60FPS, albeit with lower settings.

Any suggestions on trying to fix this would be very much appreciated.
Here are my specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz
GPU: nVidia Geforce GTX 660
RAM: 8,00 GB

Limsa Lominsa Aetheryte at Maximum settings:


Limsa Lominsa Aetheryte at Standard (Desktop):


Bentbranch Meadows Aetheryte at Maximum settings:


Bentbranch Meadows Aetheryte at Standard (Desktop):