Poor performance on an awesome machine

[Neuroboy23]

Strangely, yes. I can startup and restart both Dragon Age and Starcraft II with ultra high settings without any issues. I have figured out that if I leave my shadow settings on Medium, Amnesia runs beautifully and doesn't have any problem with scene transitions. However, even under these circumstances, if I shutdown and restart Amnesia, it starts to stutter. I have to reboot my machine to get a decent frame rate. If I even try using higher shadow settings, my frame rate is either never good or starts degrading at the first scene transition.