I think it is gorgeous, so much so that I REALLY need to clean out m harddrive directory cos I imagine I have many megs/gigs of ss's from beta mainly of vistas or eirie foggy forests etc.
I played on Med (whatever it was called early on) then found that High worked fine then later as they tuned more realized ummm Very High is practically no diff in perf so I had been playing on VHigh for a long time.
Only prob I see is that I just finally tried a lumberjack (and I'm OK with that ;P) and have trouble finding cuttable trees except by accident. I remember in early early beta it was like ez with my graphics set low. Books in grass are tricky but I remember to lower that if I can't find something (like Tactics in newbie De quest esp since location changed)
One thing I will note, I built a new system back in April/May? at middle cost levels, it totalled to like 1700 but 600$ of it was a video card as I bought the BFG7900GTXOC shortly after release (it is less than half that now
) Basic stuff: 4800X2 (pre M2), 2GB, 74G Raptor (VG is on raptor, that and BF2 which I need to remove are the only 'games' on my system drive), 250G Sata3, XFi (added later tho so not inc in that price), Asus32Delux MB, most of the rest stuff I picked that doesn't matter much (P180Case etc)
A good question is what you compared against MMO or what singleplayer game. Lastly, if it is performance at the very high etc, then Vanguard will wait for YOU to be 'patched' ;P hehe - it may require a semi decent + rig now but as time passes that requirement will seem less and less as pcs continue to improve/drop in price.