hi all.

just downloaded the game via steam and installed it on my machine and am a bit dismayed that i'm only able to get 2 FPS or so on the opening screen (prior to cut scene).

this is the screen where you select "new," "load," or "quit."

performane does not improve throughout the opening cut scene.

i'm wondering if anyone else has seen this and if they have any suggestions for a fix.

for the record: i spent an hour and half on the phone with nvidia tech support doing clean installs of the latest drivers. we ran the game from the default settings (high) all the way down to low. we opimized the game for peformance and repeated without any luck. we also installed some asus drivers for managing the video card.

nothing we did made any difference.

when i called asus tech support they offered no further solutions.

anyone have any advice?

thanks.

here are my machine specs for reference:

asus g73jw-xt1

intel i7 740QM processor

8 GB Ram

Windows 7 64 bit OS

Nvida 460M (1.5 GB video Card) latest drivers installed today

~31 GB free space on hard drive (after installing game)