Damned Hardwear Freaks
I'm stuck with my 333mhz Pentium 2 playing HOW with 200mb free for cache
Try turning of Background Audio. I turned it off and my HOW runs like the wind (without that damned wind from the Burial Isle)
More obvious solutions would be to run in lower resolutions, disable translucent shadows, and if you don't mind a drop in realism, disable static animation
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Why?