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Graphics card resources are still system resources... You over-render grass, you slow down the rendering of everything else.

The problem here is not whether the grass is rendered or not, the problem is that it's easy to see where it stops. A properly executed rendering would effectively "fade" the rendering so the only way the player would see the rendering edge is to actively look for it - otherwise, it'd be relatively unnoticeable.

bingo! atari_eric hit the bullseye...

however, I don't know why we're debating an issue based on the hearsay in the first post. I shall refrain from grass arguments until I try the game and see for myself.

Well, I played for about 3 hours last night.

I can understand all the criticisms that people have brought up - in my original post.

The grass radius is noticeable, so I will see about turning it off when I get back outside the dungeon I am in. The first dungeon (outside the tutorial) that I stumbled across is HUGE. Something gratifying in watching a mindless skeleton stumble into swinging blades.

The textures are not bad on my machine AMD 3700+/Radeon X850, but it depends on the lighting. The second time I talked to the emperor - lighting made his face look ghastly, but again that was because of ambien lighting.

I have never been much of a "sneak attack" kind of player, but I am enjoying the bow/marksman part of the game - in "sneak" mode 3x damage from afar, 6x damage if you can stab/slash them before they notice you.

Anyway, much too early to give a full review. I am on the default settings the program set for me - the quality is on high, I think, with a resolution of 800x600, which looks fine. You can set it on letterbox, which I think I might do.

I'll let you know what else I think.

Grass distance even has got its own optional settings:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/i...owtopic=277929

Unfortunately the screenies of the initial post are too large, but it looks like you can customize almost everything about graphics.

I know, I am not dead-set on photorealistic gameplay. I played Zork, Sword of Glass and Bard's Tale I, for goodness sake.

I'll play with it when I get home. Although that will be put off as the wife is having a bad dog and bad toddler day.

My copy has been shipped. Details to follow, probably after I'm over the cold.

Huh?

Anyway, according to UPS my package is slowly making its way accross the country. In the meantime, I've resorted to re-playing NWN.

Now, I just have to figure out how to scribe scrolls...