i doubt its ur rig's problem. Its more likely the immatured DX10 drivers and DX10 optimizations.

It runs 5.1 natively on my rig.. dont even have to set anything up

hmm.. just one thing i noticed with the graphics settings.

Just in case some of u guys didnt notice, the setting that affects the performance of the game the most are as below, from the highest impact to the lowest (please take note, this is DX10 mode, but i do think its applicable in DX9 as well though..)

1. Shadows - Surprisingly, i never thought that shadows can pullback my framerates this badly.. setting from high to low gave me additional boost of 20-30fps. Set this to low, basically, you wont feel much difference with high, but it gives alot more fps in "low".

2. HDR - well.. medium is recommended, still gives pretty good effects even if not set to high, as the matter in fact, in high settings, certain glow scenes are overly exagerated.

3. Effect Volume - still looks great =)

With my current rig (in siggy), im able to enjoy 80+fps in all high setting with 8xAA and 16xAF. All is set to max beside shadow(low). With shadow set to high, i go all the way down to 40fps...

Basically, "Visually" you wont feel any lag as long as around 40fps is presense, however, mouse movement isnt as smooth as anything above 50-60fps.

Enjoy and hope i helped =)

Is anyone here kind enough to share their game saves with me? i formatted my pc and forgotten to back up my game save... im currently on level 7/8, really appreciate your help

finished the game quite some time ago.. well, its hard but fun xD
its one of the best arcade style shooter that ive played on PC.

Not to mention this is one of the first few top notched DX10 games, though the graphics are pretty awesome in DX9 itself =)

and... this was the game that poisoned me to upgrade my rig as well and blew a huge hole in my wallet

This post has been edited by AoiNatsume: Dec 24 2007, 05:48 AM

the last boss didnt give me much problem, probably i hit him with mostly blade combos... damm the last robot was cool, the boss that gave me a big headache was green eye @_@
80% of the time i only see smokes walking/thrusting happily sunddely got crushed. In this situation, 5.1 speaker setup REALLY did helped ALOT, otherwise it would be dammed hard to pinpoint that fella

This post has been edited by AoiNatsume: Dec 24 2007, 10:36 AM

wait till u get your hands on the final VS

too bad you only get to play with it for a short period of time =(

theres no way u can take down all those vs alone =_="

Run all the way to your right, there should be 2 huge box with a garage looking door. There are 2 vs there for you to pick and fight your way through =)