you are not the only one
think this issue has been here since the game release (i remember having low fps in black citadel since the first day)
some screenshots took from bank area:
- looking towards the center of Black Citadel 37 fps: http://oi61.tinypic.com/2e4klep.jpg
- 180 degrees turn 72 fps : http://oi58.tinypic.com/34q2ry8.jpg
that happens on my athlon x4 640, 8gb ddr3, hd 7750 1 gb ddr5
(the rest of the pc setup has no effect, i changed the mb (to move from ddr2 to ddr3, first mb was based on nForce 720D , second mb on AMD970), the sound card (because i hear no diferences between audigy se and alc 892) and there was no change in the fps in this area, updating downgrading gpu drivers had no effect, replacing the hd 7750 with my old hd 5670 changed nothing in term of fps)
yes i know the cpu is an amd one and it’s a bit old, but if you look at the screenshots you will notice that the max cpu core usage in the first screenshot (the 37 fps one) is 83% while in the second one the max cpu core usage is 92%. i see no cpu, gpu or ram (both gpu and cpu) bottleneck to be honest (i also see no hdd activity, anyway i waited until the fps got stable).
before someone is saying that maybe my graphic settings are too high: http://oi60.tinypic.com/122dunk.jpg
(textures on low has always gave me lower fps, vsync on or off doesn’t change the fps anyway the fps is under the refresh rate, effect lod i never saw it changing the fps)
