Quote Originally Posted by Liniont View Post
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.
This is down to the way they have their texture files and engine set up.
Unless you are running the game off a SSD (or better) you will have slowdowns as the engine will semingly halt updating frames while it loads textures.

Quote Originally Posted by Liniont View Post
I also have my GPU forcing V-Sync because I had taring and I saw that this fixed the problem. I have the Anti-aliasing - Transparency set to Multisample and Triple Buffering is also on as well.
Turn off Multisampling that is why you are experincing those major slowdowns outside of towns.
Any place with foliage will have this effect with multisampling on.

Quote Originally Posted by Liniont View Post
Could anyone help me set up my configuration so it runs as smooth as possible and still looking fanominal while not over heating my machine.
Full Screen
1920x1080 Resolution
8xQ MSAA (2x MSAA)
General Drawing Quality: 8
Background Drawing Quality: 5 (3)
Shadow: Highest (Standard - high)
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Ambient occlusion: Off
Depth of field: On (Off)
Disable cutscene effects: Off (On)
Enable hardware mouse cursor: On
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Highest (High)

*Your settings listed in parentese where they differ from mine.

Running a setup somewhat equal to yours these are the settings I use.
My video card is a GTX 570 so less powerful than what you are running.
With the settings listed above the temperature of the GPU is 60-70 degrees celcius.