For my set-up the best performance I can get is at 800x600 with every video option either off or low and PhysX off and Hardware EAX ON. If I turn off EAX off performance is worse.

Still I'm faced with jerky mouse control and low resolution/detail.

Pretty disappointing since I can play anything out there at twice the detail completely smoothly.

I find it interesting that PhysX cripples gameplay and I have an nVidia 8600 GTS. Hilarious if it wasn't so maddening.

It boggles the mind that these issues went completely un-noticed by the developers/publisher.

The only suggestion I can make is that they developed/QC'd on top of the line tech and didn't bother with lower grade machines.

Either that or they knew and didn't care.

Note: We're talking perception here, as in CUSTOMER perception.

Get the picture?

8600 is not a great card, hell, it's not even good for gaming. It'd be good for watching DVDs and okay for watching HD movies.

It wouldn't make a bad physx card if you got something better as a GPU and had 2 pci slots.

on my 8800GT (BFG OC2) its playable at 1280x960 with motion blur on and all effects at MED. I was waiting for the patch but I grow weary.