SpiralOut

I saw a lot of screenshots before I bought the game, and the game looked incredible. But it's a total different story after I installed. I'm getting very low FPS, and the only way to make the game playable is to put everything on very low, which makes the game look like nintendo. The shots in the screenshot thread look great. Are you guys using supercomputers or what? Even the average screenshot or video I see around looks much better than what I'm getting on my end. Very Low Normal Very High Even those screenshots don't do any justice. It actually looks a lot worse on my end during gameplay and movement. Is there anything I can do to make the game look somewhat decent and still get playable FPS? Computer Specs: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 3.2GHz 4GB OCZ DDR800 RAM Asus P5Q Pro Motherboard EVGA GTX 260 Superclocked Core 216

Even after changing the resolution I still don't get that much better FPS. On a Q6600, 4GB RAM, and GTX260 I still avg a choppy 30FPS. And for some reason I can't change the resolution to 1680x1050, there is just no option. The next step down on the rez that doesn't stretch the screen oddly is 1600x900, and it makes the game look like crap on this screen. What resolution should I be using for a 24" widescreen? Is there a way to manually put it at 1680x1050? This is absolutely nuts. I mean I built this computer in November. I have no problems with any other games, completely maxed out @ 1920x1200. If I can't get this to work I guess I'm throwing this game aside and waiting for OFPDR.

Okay, the quality problem was definitely the fillrate. It still doesn't look as good as some of the screenshots on here, but just putting the fillrate from 88%(very high) to 100% made a huge difference. The bad thing is that I can't put it any higher than 100% without the FPS dropping like crazy. The GTX260 has 896MB of RAM and really isn't that bad of a card. I'm running at 1920x1200, so this might be the problem, but I get no problem with other games at this rez with max settings. I'm currently running: Viewing Distance 1600 Fillrate 100% Shadows Disabled Ansio Disabled Textures and Video Memory on Normal Everything else as low as it will go With that I get somewhere around 10-45FPS, usually never going above 25. Even though its avg is 25, it still feels very choppy, and whenever medium-to-high action is going on it drops to under 15FPS. Is this normal for my specs? Richie I have pretty much the exact same system but with a much better video card, and get nowhere near that with everything on low! Cyzz or anybody else with a similar system, what settings/rez do you use?