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You described it exactly Sil. Happens every time you get the attack "animation" or when they're moving about the screen, etc.

I've updated the drivers and now I'm back up to around 30 fps with all the bells and whistles turned on. So thanks for that tip, I should've seen it coming. I'm almost certain, however, that any driver's I've ever had are Vista compliant, whatever that may entail, because the motherboard is a Vista motherboard. And by that I mean it won't run XP setup for some reason, even from a fresh format. If I spent any time trying to figure out that reason I'd probably turn into Lewis Black. Might be my own fault for buying a computer from Best Buy though.

Just curious, does anyone here run Dom3 on Vista?

Still have the graphical mask problem as Silhouette described but only when in wireframe mode. So, no huge deal now that I'm above 1(one) fps.

Thanks guys.