Frame Rate Drops in NFS Most Wanted PC

I have the same problem and it looks like others have it as well.  I pre-ordered this game as I really enjoyed the Hot Pursuit remake, so I thought this would be some of the same.  It is, accept the FPS in this game is horrible.  Im wondering if this may be an issue with Windows 8?  as I just recently upgraded. 

Im running this on a i7 laptop with a 3GB GTX 560M.  I also have 24GB Ram.  The specs should not be an issue.  I have tried downgrading the graphics but the same slowness in the tunnels and other places still exist with little effect from different grpahic options. 

This game doesn't seem to look as good as Hot Pursuit, and somehow also tends to run poorly.  I run all other games without issue from NFS Hot Pursuit to BF3, this is the only gaming giving me stuttering or slowness.  I also understand it is a open world game, but its running off of my Samsung 830 256GB SSD, so you would think any grabbing from the HDD would have minimal effects on performance.  Again, I can run any other game all day long with zero stuttering or FPS drop that I see in this game.  Its very distracting and annoying.  Had I known it would run like this I would not have purchased it.