everyone is complaining about this lol, look at oblivion a few years old, and only now are people maxing it with decent resolutions. and frame rates, and not gettign a bogdown on fps, in combat, and we all love oblivion dont we.
I'd hardly say that Oblivion is the same in that respect. It played fine and dandy on my friend's X1650PRO and Athlon 64 2800+ and his laptop with a 7600GS even with high settings.
And Oblivion wasn't published by EA, so performance improvement was more of a potential reality.
Anyway, time will tell, maybe I'm blowing off a little too fast here, we'll see
edit:
EA Forums: anyone getting bad frame rates on high ...
Just a little paraphrase from one of the posts there:
More info, with my QX6850 + 8800 Ultra + 2Gb DDR2 I get:
5fps (1600*1200, 16aa, Very High settings)
8fps (1600*1200, 4aa, Very High settings)
12fps (1600*1200, 4aa, High settings)
25fps (1280*1024, 8aa, Medium settings)
Nvidia Driver version: 163.69
ugh, pathetic