In article .com,
Beladi Nasralla says...
I made a budget gaming computer -- AMD X2 Athlon 3600+ and 7600GT
(both overclocked). I ran Oblivion at playable framerates at almost
maximum settings. My colleague says that his new computer with 8800GTS
struggles to run Oblivion at maximum settings, and he wonders why I
can ran it on my computer. I run Bioshock at maximum settings, and the
game has no speed problems (that is, it runs at least at 20 fps). And
yet the reviews show that the high-end cards (like 1950Pro and 7900GT)
struggle to run the game at full settings.

What is happening ?

You're running the game using DirectX 9 and he's running the game
running DirectX 10. If he forced the game to run in DirectX 9, it'd
trounce yours.

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