I have 275.27 drivers for my gtx 480 and the cutscenes in the game run at about 10-20 fps. I have the game maxed out (minus ubersampling) and the gameplay is usually 40fps to 50 fps. does anyone know why the cutscenes run like garbage?

There are newer WHQL drivers now, may want to try them. This does not happen on my GTX 580.

The cutscenes tend to be slightly higher quality it seems.. but nothing that would see a huge drop in FPS like that.

I'd also try disabling vsync, and set the nvidia control panel to "application controlled" if you already haven't.

I have a GTX 480 with the settings set by the game to optomize and the cut scenes run ok for me. I am on a 17 950, 12gb 1333 ram, win 7 pro, but i think the kicker here is the 64gb SSD where win 7 is installed hence my swap file is there. Not sure how i can help as willing as i am with out some more specifics.

Asai

It's a memory leak...
Try alt tabbing out of the game and then in again. The FPS should go up.

Buggy game is buggy...

If everything else fails, you could try disabling Cinematic Depth-of-Field.

That's exactly what it is, disable it and watch your cutscenes run silky smooth.

maybe deactivte ubersampling