Short Answer: YES IT IS YOUR SYSTEM.

Okay, so, you're not a programmer, you don't actually know anything that can cause it, you don't actually know how and why it appears, you don't even know what exactly it is.. and yet, IC is supposed to magically wave their fingers and fix it?

Short Answer: YES IT IS YOUR SYSTEM.You cant count ? Have you seen how many threads about bad perfomance here ?Or maybe you cant read: all other games are running great. Even such resource heavy ones as AC and Crysis. Okay, so, you're not a programmer, you don't actually know anything that can cause it, you don't actually know how and why it appears, you don't even know what exactly it is.. and yet, IC is supposed to magically wave their fingers and fix it?Im a programmer, and TyrelHUN is right. If drawing of 2d user interface upon ready 3d scene halves FPS - that means that something is terribly wrong in the engine.And when 7 AI game brings down CPU - that means either someone did not bother with optimization, or game has "dead" features like "large maps".

The only difference is, we're smart.

Just to repeat, I can drop all my settings to low and turn off anti-aliasing, and I still get a better framerate in Crysis with all settings to high and AA off.My computer has no bottleneck, I've built computers for years and I very specifically chose all my hardware. I have one of the fastest consumer processors in the world besides quad-core ones, and they're out of the running since the game only uses two cores.At my current 3.15 ghz, I am 50 mhz away from having the fastest CPU Intel makes if I'm not mistaken. I have 2 gigabytes of PC2-6400 memory running slightly below its maximum rated speed, 770 or so instead of 800, there's a good reason but it's not applicable to this discussion. This is not the fastest memory anymore but it's hardly low-end. I never reach fully usage on my RAM. My graphics card is among the top 10 in the world at any price, and I have it overclocked to be almost neck-and-neck comparable to the second-fastest GPU in existence. I have a high-speed RAID array that gives me incredibly fast read and write speed. In short, I have no bottlenecks that can be humanly avoided.I've given all my system specs, if there's any other info that would help I'll gladly provide it. And please guys calm down, you sound like fanboys. One side says they're having a problem, other side says it's impossible because the game is the very epitome of christlike perfection. First side says you're all poo-poo heads that don't know what a monitor is. Come on, be reasonable with each other.I'm going to try to gather more statistics, I'll see what the limit is to when I start to get what I term as "rather not-very-good performance". ie, when I drop below 40 fps on a regular basis.Remember my original post is not accusing the game of being badly written, or even that there's a problem - I'm merely asking if this is normal under my circumstances. I love this game, I don't feel cheated or ripped off even if my performance is actually normal. I just want to know if there's anything I can do to improve the situation. I'll get back to this a bit later.