Bitttymacod
Display driver type was Auto, no idea what that would default to, but I'm going to check that.
Edit: Direct3D seems to be better for me than OpenGL, but I didn't test it for very long. I'll try that tonight.
It has been a while since I updated my drivers, but I'm not quite sure how that would make for a sudden change in performance unless there was an un-documented change to accomodate new drivers. I'll look and see if there's an upgrade for my NVidia GEForce 9600 GT.
Auto usually uses D3D for AMD/ATI cards and OGL for nVidia cards (which should be the best choice in most cases as well) - but this is only true for windows systems since other don't have D3D.
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