Crysis 2 frame rate issues

[KeyboardDemon]

I've been exploring the new toy and noticed that when I benchmark my rig running the Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark tool my total CPU utilisation hardly goes over 27% and GPU utilisation peaks at 71%, only going up to 99% during the menu sequences. This results in a fairly low frame rates, with averages between 27 to 37fps depending on the scene selected.

I took this screen shot of CPUID HWMonitor and Afterburner while running a bench test:


Other than reducing my quality settings or resolution, does anyone know if there's anything I can do to get my frame rates up by making better use of the hardware I have available?

[KeyboardDemon]

I found the problem, I use using the Advanced settings menu to set all my options to Ultra instead of using the Graphics settings screen where I can choose an Extreme profile that sets all of my options to Ultra but plays at around 80fps instead of 30fps.

Who'd have known?!