Posted 20 March 2015 - 10:41 AM
First, check your processes for something called Akami Net Session. This can be safely disabled from your startup - and it has a huge impact on framerates.
Second, don't despair. I've been having the same problem. Randomly-seeming it will give me games where the frame rates are very poor. Before you go out and start dumping a water-cooling system in your box, first see if the problem is present in Testing Grounds. I'll bet it isn't. My system is very similar to what you've got, and I keep it pretty cool. It isn't my system causing the problem, but some kind of issue with the netcode. In Testing Grounds it runs at 90+ FPS, settings to Ultra High.
I've noticed with mine that changing the graphic settings has zero impact on the framerates. It could be that the West Coast pipeline is problematic, but I've noticed that sometimes the game patches and it runs beautiful, and other times it goes back to crap after a hot-fix.
I am a computer tech. I have gone through my system with a fine-toothed comb, trying everything to see if I can get more consistent performance. Hours of work, fine-tuning. Benchmarking like no other. It isn't the machine, its the game. I'll bet you still crush Skyrim just fine.
My suggestion is to run through the Testing Grounds. If it is running fine there, send a note to support. If enough of us note the exact same problem, PGI will move it up the support queue. Its just how it works. I don't know if they need to run more diagnostics on their servers or what, but something ought to be done.
And before the nVidia guys start bashing, I should note that I had the same issues on a intel-based nVidia system as well. I imagine that most of us are experiencing the problem. It doesn't bounce around so much as messes with hit reg. Majority of the time, the frame rate counter will read below 20 FPS, and the game still looks pretty smooth. I get games where it looks like I got every one of the AC/20 rounds on target, and then in the final report it shows like 39 damage.
I'm almost entirely positive this is a net-code issue, not hardware.