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... will be returning in the next update.
due to constant bitching.

Not that I bitched but it would be good.

I don't care about load times ect I load in <3seconds.  Game is designed on 2004 architecture.  Most have computers build after 2010.

Yeah but cores means nothing to this game, since a single core of a nowadays cpu will smoke AA...

One thing is that I was never able to join AA on the map that has vehicles, not even with my X1800GTO, it runned at like 15 fps, on max settings, and if I used lowest settings, it had 15fps. No matter what I was never possible to play in that freakin map.

But now with my new PC bought last year, I can finally play there, but don't care anymore as 2.8 is dead and it never was a good map...

ps: But I always played AA pretty well since the first time, even the 9600XT was enough for it, it just had fps drop, but that's something to do with performance issues, I could always play good on max settings (just not much good on some maps on this laptop on aa2.5, though 2.8.5 runs good) But i make a huge OC on the laptop's graphic card, and hell yeah, i win like 15 fps (I made cooling mods, though not much needed here).
Keep Cool

Because AA doesn't efficiently use CPU power. AI + vehicles take a lot of CPU power. And don't come here comparing it to some other game with thousands of AI and vehicles. I will laugh at you.

Yeah but cores means nothing to this game, since a single core of a nowadays cpu will smoke AA...

One thing is that I was never able to join AA on the map that has vehicles, not even with my X1800GTO, it runned at like 15 fps, on max settings, and if I used lowest settings, it had 15fps. No matter what I was never possible to play in that freakin map.

To your first point, you're inaccurate. My Pipeline yields less than max FPS, and my computer is more than adequate to play it. It's just a lack of optimization in the engine and/or limitations of pushing the map/engine too far. Pipeline doesn't use 100% of any of my CPU cores, it's just a limitation.

To your second point, changing graphic settings may not always affect FPS. It can be other things bottlenecking hardware in your computer. That's why they say, if you get a high end GPU, you'll need a decent CPU so you don't bottleneck the GPU and make it wait on the CPU to pre-render frames.

This single vs multi and the myth that it makes no difference as AA only uses one core is rubbish.

I have changed from single core Pentium 4 then to dual and quads with half the bus speed while not changing ram, video or MB. 

There is a hugh performance increase.  I can't explain it technically but everything just works better system side so AA also runs better.

Makes sense, AA will be hogging 1 core so the other core will handle all the OS and driver stuff.

Not to mention architecture changes. Comparing a Intel Quad Core 45nm CPU to a Pentium 4 of the same speed, the Quad Core will be faster, even if you disable 3 of it's cores. CPU's increase in speed but they also increase in efficiency, newer ones are faster clock for clock.

off topic, very nice fix on the ingame menu.. i was content before, but major fix alot of people wanted. just wanted to say thanks again

wtf is up with this "keep cool" in every single one of your posts...