Poor Skyrim preformance with GTX 550ti

rarona

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Having issues with Skyrim's framerates with a GeForce 550ti graphics card.
Just did a fresh install on the driver (320.49).
Settings are set according to NVIDIA's optimals from the website, mostly high presets with 4x AA and 16xAF.

My issue is that I only get about 25-30fps. I thought it might be a processor bottleneck (AMD Phenom II x6 1045t with stock 2.7ghz), so I overclocked it to 3.4ghz. Core temps don't exceed 60 degrees on a prime95 torture test and the whole system is stable.
Skyrim still has bad fps. Not really sure what to do at this point, there is no reason I shouldn't be getting at least 45fps

Any ideas?

Should also clarify that my motherboard is an Asus M5A97 and I'm running 8GB DDR3 Dual Channel RAM.

EDIT: Something is definitely wrong...I tried playing it on the low preset just to see what would happen...only getting 35fps. Max. I don't even know man.
 

rarona

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The Witcher 2 is running at a solid 55-60 with recommended settings

Diablo 3 is running poorly as well ~30 fps even on lowest settings. I even tried turning the resolution down to 1600x1200...no change from 1920x1080

I wouldn't think it would be a processor bottleneck, considering they used an Intel 2600k which has a stock clock of 3.4ghz in the link you posted, and I'm running an overclocked Phenom II with the same clock rate.

I am not currently running any mods.