Proformance issues with my high end gaming rig, I need help.

[Aistaraina]

The simple answer? This game is terribly optimized. It is built on an engine that was made for the PS3, not PC. So, wait for v2.0 as everyone likes to say.

I play BattleField and HQ HD Modding up Skyrim and they never put my GPU that hot.

I find that hard to believe. FFXIV, for me, outside of towns, my 580 is constantly at about 70-75C with fans at ~53%, which is nothing to worry about by the way. That is still low. If you were hitting high 80's, start getting scared. In comparison, BF3 maxed out can hit 84C. Mind you, i've only got a top and front mounted 220, and a back 120.

my second issue is I frequently get lag and things load very slowly as well as my frame rate is crappy sometimes even freezing on a frame every so often when I get close to a camp and it always happens in the main cities.

Not sure why this happens, I had the same thing back when I had the game installed on my 2TB WD Black. I've sinced moved it to an SSD, and it's fixed the frame drop.