What I am asking myself:
Will the performance issues on ATI cards be fixed? Ever?
There's nothing about it in the patch notes, so I am not optimistic.
I switched from a Radeon 1950Pro, itself not a slow card at all, to a Radeon 3850, which
is about 1.7 to 2 times at fast. High details and shadows switched on still make the game
crawl.
I was about to give up on seeing any kind of performance increase in NWN2, until
I saw the following on Beyond3D's forums:
OpenGL guy's post
No obvious reason to you, but the root cause was given to the developer some time ago.
Just FYI, OpenGL guy works directly at ATI, he is not one to make stuff up.
So, when can we expect our ATI hardware to run the game as it should?