<t> Thanks for the advice folks.<br/>
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I failed to mention I already have the other performance impacting items down, it just seemed that frame rate would be the most impactful.<br/>
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I do doubt that all non-displayed items are in the video ram, that just doesn't seem plausible. It's ...

<t> I'm having quite a bit of trouble with performance in the game.<br/>
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I'm running Windows 7 - 64bit Ultimate<br/>
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I have a Q9650 Quad core processor and 8GB of RAM in addition to a 10k Raptor hard drive.<br/>
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My video card is a GTX260 although since the game seems 2D ...