[andrewas]

remember that the performance defaults are set by theoretical numbers rather than actual experience. in most cases anyway. so i would recomend moving the slider to the notch below the one your machine is at.

id rather sacrifice some eye-candy than sacrifice some framerate which might mean i cant fire off a spell when i really *need* it. and trust me, in some of the later fights, esp in ToB you need pin-point precision and timing even while the spells are alrady flying.

somebody mentioned that 3d cards giving problems are probably badly configured. well, mine can run quake 3 like a dream, half-life perrfectly and Earth 2150 with nary a glitch. but with BG2 it slows down to a crawl. its more to do with raw power available than configuration here, anything that isnt gefore2 or kryo II (or close eqivalents) just wont cut it. needless to say, my old voodoo banshee sucked pretty bad.