Bad Witcher 2 Performance on r9 290x

[FahnoTH]

So, some days ago I bought the witcher 2, in the tutorial sequence I get anice solid 60 FPS but when I get to the first area my FPS falls down to 30. I'm running the game with SSAO and Ubersampling off.

Specs:
GPU: R9 290x
CPU: FX-8320
Mobo: AsRock 970 EXT3

I have had this with a lot of games actually. For example Assassin's Creed III also runs horrible on my PC, Fallout 4 and Skyrim(in some areas) also runs pretty bad. So is there something wrong with my whole setup or are these games in particular just badly optimized?

 

[CTurbo]

It's your cpu. It's old and not very strong, and it doesn't help that your motherboard is not very good so it probably throttles under heavy loads.

 

[FahnoTH]

It's your cpu. It's old and not very strong, and it doesn't help that your motherboard is not very good so it probably throttles under heavy loads.

Yeah I know, but the recommended CPU for the witcher 2 is the AMD Phenom II X4 and as far as I know, my CPU is better.

Edit: And I also overclocked my CPU to 4.2 GHZ and my GPU to +80 Core Clock and +100 Memory Clock

 

[CTurbo]

The Phenom II x4 is the minimum cpu recommended to run the game at all, not to run the game at a solid 60fps on high/ultra. Your motherboard is not good enough to successfully overclock a 125w cpu. You may be able to boot the cpu and browse windows at 4.2ghz, but it almost certainly throttles under loads.

 

[FahnoTH]

The Phenom II x4 is the minimum cpu recommended to run the game at all, not to run the game at a solid 60fps on high/ultra. Your motherboard is not good enough to successfully overclock a 125w cpu. You may be able to boot the cpu and browse windows at 4.2ghz, but it almost certainly throttles under loads.

All right, I guess I'll upgrade my CPU then.

 

[CTurbo]

Your motherboard is actually the root of your problems. Don't buy a different cpu for it.

 

[FahnoTH]

Ok, then i'll upgrade my Motherboard
But I don't really understand how a motherboard can bring such massive performance problems