Man I remember trying this game a couple years ago and it ran soooooo badly on my x1950xtx, just wondering if it's still the same?

Runs fairly well on my Nvidia GeForce 6600GT 128MB / 1GB RAM / 2.4GHz AMD Athlon. Lag only happens after the game's been running for several hours or more.

My settings:
- fullscreen 1280x1024
- max Graphic Detail
- max textures
- one-quarter view distance
- I can enable terrain clutter without performance impact, but I choose not to so I can spot small herb resources on the ground more easily.
- Cloth simulation disabled due to personal preference. I don't know exactly how much it affects performance when enabled because I've had it disabled for a long time, but according to my vague memory, its effect was minimal.
- spell effects enabled
- Shadows disabled due to personal preference. When enabled, their performance impact is small or nonexistent.
- decals enabled
- antialiasing forced via graphics card settings: 4x multisampling
- anisotropic filtering forced via graphics card settings: 4x

Similar experience here;

7900GS AGP (=~7600 GT); 2G RAM; 1280 X 960

Max View Distance

2X AA, not sure about AF.

Otherwise, settings very similar to Katriell's; except I remember that cloth simulation made a big difference back in the day.

Systems have gotten better, and the devs have also made improvements to the game; for example some items had crazy high polygon counts and have been redesigned.

Game runs smoothly, no hitching.

I have an old Radeon 9600 / 2GB RAM / 3.0 GHz. I could only play with the graphics settings turned right down, but the game performance was fine.

Game performance has improved greatly over what it was several years ago - which was ridiculously laggy.

But I could only play for about 4 hours at a stretch before needing to reboot my machine and load times when zoning can take 5+ minutes.

I remember playing this game when it first came out, 19 fps was actually good and it would usually drop down to 8.

I tried the trial a few months ago to check it out and things seemed to be better but some animations still seemed choppy, but I think thats just the game.