right so after reading this yesterday i was curious because to my eyes the game was already amazing, how could it be i wasn't seeing everything as super high already... so i went on a limb and re installed ... royal pain in the *** ... i ran in to the looping asset 1 re-install, thank you to w/e uped the full install torrents to bypass this issue. so to my surprise and the horror of my gfx card... i wasn't running at the max that i thought... and i was treated to a whole lot more eye-candy then i thought possible. i need to get that second gfx card for my crossfire set up soon... poor cards pulling heavy load now if i don't drop several features down to low... but i'm not giving up the high textures ^_^;;