I had a problem with the textures loading up fast enough.
Go to control panel> system> hardware> device manager> IDE> Primary and Secondary> Advanced settings>
and make sure that your disc drives are running at their optimal speed.
PIO mode is bad. If windows stalls because of a scratched DVD or something and cant read the drive, it switches down from HIGH DMA modes to PIO. You would probably have noticed your PC chugging to a halt at times if it is in this mode. You want your drives to be running in the highest DMA mode possible. Both my drives are now running in ULTRA DMA 5 mode.
If you want to make sure that your drives are running as fast as possible, go to this link and follow the instructions.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/ninjaduck/itserviceduck/udma_fix/
A thorough defrag with perfectdisc helps, as does running spybot, adaware, cccleaner, and registry mechanic. Use IIARN taskinfo to make sure you don't have any processes hogging your cpu.
I am on a 2.6ghz, 1.5gig ram, 6600gt, with a x-fi card.
I play in 1024, with everything turned down low. Detail level at 50000.00, no AA or AF. Theres no doubt I could benefit from a reformat but for now at least I have got the game playable whereas before it would chugg along in 640.
It's such a great game. It takes cahones for a studio to release a game with integrity like this one. I look forward to some optimisations and fixes with both the graphics and the gameplay, but I'm having fun in the mean time.
Hope this post helps someone.
