Interesting thought there. I’m using an ATI videocard too and yeah, it is a drag. But disabling the shadows(“r_shadows 0”) jumped my average framerate (from 15-20FPS to 45-60FPS) on big maps like the “security tower”. I find it’s a common problem for ATI to handle rendering shadows on most games. I even experienced this on games like Crysis, Far Cry, Red Alert 3 and some others.
As for Nephandys, thanks for the reminder. I actually(honestly) forgot about that. 
[QUOTE=Zarel;352120]Interesting thought there. I’m using an ATI videocard too and yeah, it is a drag. But disabling the shadows(“r_shadows 0”) jumped my average framerate (from 15-20FPS to 45-60FPS) on big maps like the “security tower”. I find it’s a common problem for ATI to handle rendering shadows on most games. I even experienced this on games like Crysis, Far Cry, Red Alert 3 and some others.
As for Nephandys, thanks for the reminder. I actually(honestly) forgot about that. :)[/QUOTE]
even with shadows off and everything low the performance is erratic.
I have a 5770 and i can barely keep a constant 30 fps even with everything on low.