I've been having some pretty bad lag/low FPS when running on lower than default settings. I've tried adjusting them various ways, yet nothing seems to really help. I scored a 2500ish on the benchmark (nothing special) but should run the game ok I'd hope, right...?
Settings I'm running:
1280x720 windowed
No AA
Shadows/texture quality/filtering set at low
Buffer size is set to 'resolution', and I'm pretty sure that's what is causing the problem, except if I set it any lower the game looks like such absolute crap there's really no reason to play.
Windows 7 64-bit
AMD Phenom II X4 925
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz
ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
So what can I do to make it not like like NES graphics and not have horrific fps? Are there just some other settings I need to tweak? Something I need to upgrade? I really know very little about this stuff, so any help is greatly appreciated.
Edit: Ran the 'deep optimize' setting on my defragger, cleaned up a good 15000 files and now it runs pretty nicely. Not the best graphics in the world, but pretty good by my standards. If anyone has any advice on better graphics cards (~$150-200) please share.