Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> I swam onto the beach at the beginning of the game, and got about 40 
> FPS. If you swing the camera around enough for motion blur to kick in, 
> it drops slightly, but not much. Night vision appears to make no 
> difference.
> 
> The cutscene where they find Astec dropped to about 18 FPS. Some really 
> large scenic vistas take it as low as 15 FPS (though curiosly an entire 
> frame full of dense jungle is no problem, only long-range views). 
> Typically the framerate stays above 25 FPS, which is all the monitor can 
> physically display anyway, so I'm happy.
> 
> This is at 1680x1050 (the native resolution of my LCD) with everything 
> set to "high" plus 8x antialias.

Apparently that was with one core dedicated to POV-Ray. I forgot I had 
it running. Stopping it doesn't appear to drastically affect game 
performance either positively or negatively, however.

During the epic tank battle, FPS drops down to about 12, but goes no lower.

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