@thrashmaster, it's pretty obvious what to tweak to get better performance -antialiasing, shaders, vsinc, water quality. Even if you turn these to a minimim you won't notice a very big difference in any game out there, though they really lower the framerate for older graphics cards. If it's still bad, go for the texture quality next, but these WILL lower the visuals. If it's still choppy, go for object detail, impact markers (no of bullet holes you leave on things), dough this will probably ruin your game experience.

Asking the director of the company that makes securom about their own product was silly and pointless. What did you expect him to say? Regarding the rest of this topic, I guess it's been said here.What bark00000 said kinda sums it up.