Perfect Mode - advice from designers, please?

[bomath]

Alienware or not, an AMD2400+ and 2x7900GS won't help you too much on 1920x1200; since lowering the resolution is not an option (it'd be ugly on any LCD monitor), you have to accept one of these solutions:
1) Buy a 8800GT or 8800GTS with 512MB (not 320 or 640MB, they're less powerful than the cheapest 8800GT).
2) Lower AA/AF; no AA is acceptable on a high-res screen like yours, and 4x aniso (AF) could get by.
3) No 3Dgunners=1 (modify the conf.ini, set 3Dgunners=0).
4) Get rid of the lensflares; it's only a bit of eyecandy which usually annoy me when I come over a heavy situation (conf.ini, search for NoLensFlares and set =1).
5) Compressed textures are unnoticeable most of the time, and the planes always use .bmp skins; (conf.ini, TexCompress=1).
6) Maybe you can accept Forrest=1 too.