i must be awfully lucky. either that or it has something to do with having a phenom II quad core with 8 gigs of DDR3 ram...because honestly, i didnt think my 2 year old card would be able to run this game at the top levels! its a 9800GT pci-E and its old in graphics card years, isnt it?
thanks for the advice on the settings btw. i have one thing i need to turn off to make it better. i'll keep upping the yardage on the trees and stuff and see what happens. overall, i'm happy with how things look. just waiting to get back on...sigh.