Is that because of a awesome system you may have or because of these new textures and such?
Is this a serious post?
It's no more than a base should anyone else be curious to benchmark the flyby with the hi-res textures that level provides.
Btw, the buf flyby benchmark thread was a sticky for years, and this medium-mediumlow thing held 'the record' for two or more of them iirc. I could recreate the olde flyby, of course, but it hardly taxes newer graphics adapters. Those examples were run at the highest resolution this monitor can manage(maybe I can increase the GAME's resolution) as well as the highest visuals that my graphics adapter can possibly provide. Since I'm getting the 3850 soon, it will be a reliable indicator of how much a GPU can affect these (limited) S3TC results in UT. If someone could create a more texture-intense flyby and make it available for download...?
///Completely aside from that, I run Bioshock at 1280x960 with no lag. Not even a momentary hitch. Crysis runs at about 5-10fps @ 800x600 with DX10 settings enabled, and with no FSAA. 3DMark '05 is 10082. This is ONLY provided as a COMPARISON, not as fodder for a pissing contest. Just to make that clear.