It almost seems like the game is mocking you. Why don't you strike back and buy a $1500 machine and fps the hell out of it? :-)

That made me laugh like hell because... I actually am buying a 1500 dollar machine XD. 1600 dollar with tax lmao. (crossfiring HD 6950s)

On a side note, I got a hold of the gog exe and I have to say, it actually does improve framerate; it improved mine by 2-5 frames... not a lot, but it's noticable going from 20-25 frames.

I'm thinking about buying a new machine, too. But I think I'll be going for Nvidia gfx cards this time.

I had a friend send me the DVD version exe a few minutes ago but I can't say that my framerate dropped after using that one (c2q q9450 2,66 GHz; 4 gb ram, 2x HD 4870 512 mb).
Maybe this one is just playing mindgames with you. The human psyche is a bitch...

Not for me XD, I've always been loyal to ATi >.<

That's what I always said. Since 3dfx was bought by Nvidia, I always had ATI cards (except my current laptop) but I'm really fed up with bad drivers, delayed releases of multi gpu profiles and a very sloppy implemetation of stereoscopic viewing modes that only work with 3rd party drivers...

Lol you've made a good point, but by now, I'm already so brainwashed by ATi that I prefer only their gpus. Hell, I don't even understand the Nvidia naming scheme :/

Well, with desktop grafics it is rather simple, at least now (higher number = better card, ti = enhanced version).
Nvidia notebook cards are a different case. Sometimes they just take old cards and give them new names, With a certain model they even did that twice, so that you had a card with the name of the current generation but with the physical properties of a card that was two generations old. This isn't only hard to understand that's fraud, if you ask me...

ATi sometimes does the same thing with their notebook cards too -_- and what's with the GT and GTX in nvidia names?

As I understand it, GT stands for a low end gpus, gtx is used for mid range and high end gpus. But basically it's low to high number with the gtx and gt not making a real difference.
The only thing one has to watch out for (mostly with low and mid range cards) is if the card has ddr3 or ddr5 memory

Lol I see, man, thanks for all the info XD, I might actually have to reevaluate how I'm gonna build my dream pc XD

The only thing that might get me to buy a ATI card after all is the larger amount of vmem. With some games actually using about 1 gb today, 1,25 gb on a gtx 570 seems rather small to be sufficient to be high end for the next two years or so... on the other hand, the card is sometimes faster than a 6970 and has better software/driver support. Damn you, freedom of choice...

no game uses larger vmem, only antristopic filterig and aa puts the extra vmem to use but there is one thing, for system ram is used up equal to vmem for buffering and to work as additional ram for the video card so having extra vmem is a waste as you will lose extra system ram and even af and aa is in use having extra vmem is still usesless as the gpu cant keep up, hence nvidia sli support is better because just having extra vmem does nothing but having extra vmem and gpu is the only thing that allows the extra fps when af and aa is maxed out

I agree with you as far as normal circumstnaces a concerned, but I'm running a 3 monitor setup right now and with that vmem really is an issue.