Is that so?? because even tough im still able to play quite fine, i can run the game a quite smoothly gras does eat speed yes and shadows too but i keep them at minimum and stii get playable speeds, also im using eye candy mods and that havent slow down the game even one bit... I guess the ini tweaking helped too by changing some settings and some pople told me that VSYNC slows down the game a lot but in my case it actually made it run faster and the resolution on the screen didnt affect it all that much, i was playing before on 1024 and now on 1600 and the speed is the same... Besides turning off all that makes the game relly boring, only when i really need a speed boost i prefer to use the console command TLB, thats better for me than make the game graphically ugly... I have read many guides and with some effort and search i managed to retain very good graphic beauty in-game and still retain FPS and even boost them. Well every bit of info is welcome too and if you guys have any speed up tips without making the game too errr boring please share them, even if they make the game plain still post them, i can make some use of them.