Low FPS?

[Mirage]

Should i be having low fps? I am getting inbetween 15-35 fps and i'm getting really laggy play because of the spikes.

My spec's-
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8184MB RAM
Page File: 7143MB used, 9220MB available
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
Driver Date/Size: 5/15/2012 06:48:00, 18044224 bytes

Also everything except drawing quality is turned down, that's at standard.

EVEN at the lowest drawing quality i'm getting 18 fps in Ul'Dah...wtf.

No, you shouldn't have as poor a framerate as that.

My current specs and settings are:

1920x1080, 4x AA, standard draw quality, high shadow quality, highest texture and texture filtering settings, DoF/AO off.

Core 2 quad 9450 @ 3.2GHz (OC from 2.67), GTX 460 1GB, 4 GB system RAM.

This setup never(*) puts be below 30 fps in uldah, and keeps me around 40-45 when i'm playing with 2-3 others. Even when my CPU wasn't OCed, i didn't get below 30 fps in uldah.

*) Except the occasional hiccups because the game doesn't seem to properly cache things when large amounts of new stuff suddenly becomes visible on screen