HELP!! Horrible fps; amd 7970; benchmarked 8500+

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Hope someone can help me out, I'm about at wits end! I have a decent rig, and when running the benchmark at 1920x1080 on max settings I get a score of 8579, but when I'm in game in town I'm getting 8-10 fps, and in the field 20-40 fps - NOTHING like what my benchmark score had me hoping for.

I'm running an i7/960@3.2GHz, amd 7970, 12g ram, SSD, etc. Latest catalyst 13.8 beta2 drivers. What i don't get, is how can I get such a great benchmark score, and then eat complete sh!t in game?!?! I'm about to throw in the towel and go play something else, because it's not fun walking around town at 8fps...

Help!

-------------------- benchmark results: ---------------------
FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation)
Tested on:9/2/2013 2:33:06 AM
Score:8579
Average Framerate:83.660
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Enable HDR rendering and improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Real-time Reflections : High
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing) : FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality : High
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Self : Display
-Other NPCs : Display
Shadow Quality
-Use low-detail models on shadows. (LOD) : Disabled
-Shadow Resolution : High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading : Best
-Shadow Softening : Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering : x16
Movement Physics
-Self : Full
-Other NPCs : Full
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : Strong
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130708-1532)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz
12279.113MB
AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series(VRAM 4095 MB) 8.17.0010.1236

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will run on your system.

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