currently got a friend in Russia, news is not all bad it seems.
Game is running avg32fps (which is fine by me) in a flight over london and the fields around it, game was on high/medium settings running on a q8400, 2gb ram and a 6870 with windows xp.
He does say there are a fair few graphical bugs, but that a patch is about to be released which promises to solve a fair few of them. Also there is no crossfire support but once again this is to be added in "weeks not months".
Sounds... good, even great. Look at those graphics, this will be awesome when it hits steam!