So I just spent roughly 260 dollars on a 750w power supply and an XFX Radeon HD5750 1GB graphics card, but even with this very decent card and a power supply that easily supports it I'm dropping anywhere from 26 - 30 fps just in the tutorial dungeon on ultra settings WITHOUT forcing AA through control panel. Anyone know why?

What CPU is in there? You are dropping 30FPS from what total?

Well we are buying a new CPU soon since something happened to our current one (its not completely busted obviously, but we know it'll give out sooner or later). But I noticed anywhere from 60 - 80 fps when I was just walkin through with no heavy combat going on (like being ambushed by 4+ agents and all those animations goin on)


EDIT: this is our current processor (that's the CPU right?) AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz

that was read directly off the dxdiag program

Well 60-80FPS is certainly plenty of room for the drop. If you were getting a total of 30FPS and then seeing the 20+FPS drop I would be worried. The game is very CPU intensive. And the more enemies that appear onscreen make the CPU work harder. But really with that CPU I would expect the drop in FPS with several enemies around. The game is completely playable with anything above 20FPS. Its not a first person shooter game where you are needing to have 150FPS plus to get perfect headshots.

Yea, I wasn't worried about playability, I was just curious as to why it would drop by over half. Thanks for clearing things up.

Edit: hey also, just something I noticed, I have the same PSU thats shown in your computer in your sig

No problem, every machine will always see a FPS drop when playing with multiple NPCs on screen. (Mine with game installed on a 10,000RPM drive and with my CPU still drops to about 35FPS in the market sometimes).