Well if you say the game "runs well". Set Highest quality + 16x AF and run around Hathor Zhi or Khal then get back to me. Try the crafting rooms when they are full of other players. Heck try those @
balanced settings. Naturally, don't stare at a wall and say, "I get good FPS." Look across the entire room from one end to the next, or look across that main connecting room in Hathor Zhi when it is full. Depth of field, with players and NPCs = FPS death @ highest quality in cities. It doesn't run well on balanced either in cities with players about.
No game runs like ass on my system
except VG in some of its cities with other players about. I don't consider 20FPS acceptable on my system when nothing else I play can put me below 40 @ the highest settings with filtering on. I get those grinding halts on occasion too that Xion mentions. Outdoors run great, save an occasional "grind halt". They have serious issues to address with a decent number of players around one another and particularly in cities.
I'll see you fellows in six months when the largest of nerfs are over and perhaps they have optimized more. Hopefully they will tune the animations too. If you want to read well thought-out criticism of the game try the below thread. L233 is over the top in some cases and right on in others:
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37302
Let me know how you like VG post L20.
BTW I am F'n tired of caves too.
