Quote Originally Posted by jinkobi View Post
It's all the fire effects+more people. Notice if you get somewhere without any fire around things clear up. Then you start walking and pass a fire boom huge FPS hit.

Kind of been a long running problem. There's just much much much more open flame effects around now.
Fire effects never gave me any trouble on my NVidia cards. In fact, my 2nd PC running 4 clients on an NVidia 8800GTX gets better FPS in many spots than my 5850 does on my main. Beginning to wonder about my choice in buying an ATI.