Tip for Patch Use... Normalize your installation..

[JG14_Jagr]

I was helping someone get their setup running because they posted that it was just aweful and they had a lot of my exact hardware. While going over the installation I asked him to set his CCC (ATI) to defaults.. I don't know what his settings were before that but he said he had been tweaking everything trying to help as the game has been patched. When he went back to default he got huge improvements in all areas, fps, stuttering etc. Then we went through his conf.ini in the user section and he had changed a ton of settings, many of which he had no idea what they did or didn't do,.. again, he was trying to see if he could fix things when it wasn't working. We nuked the conf.ini and got it basically back to default installation plus the new BETA patch with basically default graphics driver settings and shockingly, the game ran very well..

It got me wondering how many other people have been trying various settings and programs to force certain graphics issues... Might be a good time to try the Vanilla version of everything and see what you have then tweak cautiously..