Most RPGs don’t have fast-paced, time-based first-person combat. And 30 FPS is noticably laggy to me, I find it quite jarring and immersion-breaking.
But ok, if you enjoy the game more at 35 FPS, looking gorgeous, that’s your choice. I don’t even have the choice, because I can only just barely squeeze out 50 FPS on medium-low settings. For some reason, I’m not getting the performance from this game that I should, with my spec.
The CPU never reaches 100% load, while the GPU is maxed out. Even on low settings, at 50 fps. I have more than adequate RAM, and my system never gets above 12 GB usage, of 16 GB (not including page file). In case the game wasn’t using all cores, and the CPU was actually bottlenecking, I overclocked my CPU to 4.4 GHz up from 4.0, to see if that improved performance. As I expected, not even slightly. For some reason, the game is using way more processing power on the graphics card than it should.
I’m not using HD textures DLC, or any graphics or texture mods.
I checked if triple buffering or something else was enabled in NVIDIA Control Panel, in case maybe there was some setting there causing it to be horridly inefficient. Nothing. Turned all the settings in NCP down to potato-mode, just in case, and not even a slight performance gain.