Significant drop in fps when looking at foliage since 1.03

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Devs may want to look at any changes made to the foliage, cause it is causing massive drops in fps, especially when zoomed in on. Prior to 1.03 zooming in would actually cause a slight increase in fps. Now, however, zooming on grass, or leaves causes drops as much as 20-30 fps. Missions that were playable with grass on full are a complete wreck now, when its knocked down to 15 fps when I zoom in to fire. I've got object detail on normal. I can't imagine how bad it would get if I turned it up to highest...my system would probably grow a hand and slap me in the face for trying.

Hopefully you are, or will look into this.

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Hmm..am I the only one experiencing this since the 1.03 patch?

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I've seen another user here post that they are actually crashing when zooming in on trees. I know they made adjustments in this patch to foliage regarding ballistics/penetration, so i'm wondering if that may have something to do with it.

System specs:

E6600 @ 2.4

GTX 260

SB X-Fi

Windows XP

All drivers up to date.

1.2, game ran nicely with the settings I had. 1.03, zooming in to any degree with grass or leaves about midrange drastically affects fps. I've seen it go from 35 down to 9.