revial: Does the game really look so bad on High that you need to use Ultra and fiddle around with individual settings?
No, god no. This game looks great on anything above low. But, I want to see how much of this game can my computer handle.
CalinRO: Well, if you have a good laptop, and i see a HD5870. I must say, that laptop version of 5870 is NOT equal in performance like the desktop HD5870, and the same thing works on the i7 740QM laptop version.
And in the config tool try to disable this options:
uber sampling,motion blur, blur effects,vertical sync,DOF for cutscenes, texture memory size put to a lower value, depending of your video card vram, note this, if you put on very large, it will suck from you video card 1028 mb of vram. Number of shadow lights put to high.
Well, try to play with this settings. And if you could make some overclock in your laptop.
I've tried that, the funny thing is, it's moody. Sometimes the game gets incredibly fast, other times it's just horrible. One question tho, I have 1gb of vram, how much do you think large Texture Mem sucks out of it? And OC is only useful to me in 1 hour of really really intensive work, like rendering in after effects. Other times, I don't even notice a difference other than the burning lava in front of me.