Poor FPS with high-end rig?

[swallow1106]

I am also suffering from interesting FPS drops. From my understanding, a GTX 680 should slice through this game like butter even on maximum settings. The benchmark scored me 9XXX'ish, with a reported 80FPS average. When I get in game. I dont see much higher then 60. I just read there is an FPS cap so I will attempt to locate that. Otherwise, when I am standing in Uldah, looking down the street with very few characters on screen, my FPS sits at about 35-40.
My CPU is a 1st Gen i7 930 Bloomfield @ 3.6Ghz. Getting dated but I'd imagine its still keeping up with some stock next gens. Hard drives should not impact a game unless this is a new proven concept in the last year or so... Running the latest drivers... Not sure what else to try besides turning the settings down. [Obviously I dont want to do this knowing others with the same setup are getting full performance]

I will be trying a multitude of drivers tonight to see any difference. Will report back.

You are right with the CPU in this case, O.C. your CPU a little bit will overcome some bottleneck. GF and I had similar setup except I have first gen i7 and hers is 3rd gen i7 and the different was significant for me to question if the bottleneck was at the CPU that I put in an older card in my system. The result was other than TEMP difference, my 1 full gen older GPU had same performance as newer GPU.

[Atlasprime]

You are right with the CPU in this case, O.C. your CPU a little bit will overcome some bottleneck. GF and I had similar setup except I have first gen i7 and hers is 3rd gen i7 and the different was significant for me to question if the bottleneck was at the CPU that I put in an older card in my system. The result was other than TEMP difference, my 1 full gen older GPU had same performance as newer GPU.

Ditto. During Phase 4. I was running stock. The restoration of my OC profile showed nil. My buddy is running max on an i3 and a 6850 GPU... He averages about 30-40fps but this is expected. I can safely rule out the HD as well... should anyone want to challenge me on that point lol. Initially had the game installed on a regular cavier blue 7200RPM drive just like all my other games. Decided after restoring my PC back to windows 7 last night to put it on my RevoDrive. No difference.

I think my only hope, along with others in this boat are drivers. Now... the only thing I cannot explain are those running the same drivers as me (latest certified) that are getting expected results... [I can only hope they are lying or the minor differences in setup are accountable...]