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  1. Just confirmed that they are on the security key vendor in Ilum Orbital Station. 20,000 creds a piece and I didn't really like either of them, but I grabbed one anyway so that my Ashara looks different than all the rest running around. I just use the iphone security program, didn't buy a key, btw
  2. Make sure you don't have morphological filtering or temporal AA turned on by accident. Both of those gave me weird visual artifacts too. My settings are as follows (you can get to the page these options are on by right-clicking on the ATT icon in your system tray and then going up to the 3d menu and looking for "settings..." AA - 4x Filter - Box AA Mode - Multi-sample AA Anisotropic Filtering - Performance Then under "Performance" bar Texture Preference - High Quality MipMap Detail Level - High Performance Wait for Vertical Sync - Always off Not sure if any of these will help you, but that's what I'm running and I'm not getting anything strange going on with my map or anything and I'm pulling down 60fps. I'm running Catalyst 11.11 at the moment, but they are the Xtreme-G drivers, so they're modified to a certain extent. I'm very happy with how my system is running, the only downsides are (as you mentioned) the fans are on, and pretty fast, the majority of the time and with the CPU and GPU both being pushed this hard the power adapter doesn't actually provide enough power to run the computer so it has to draw power from the battery as well, meaning that even with my computer plugged my battery slowly drains. When I say slowly I mean -very- slowly, and it only takes about 30 minutes with the screen closed to charge it back up to ~50%, but still, it is worth mentioning for anyone who follows my prior advice.
  3. So I got a brand new 15" MBP for Christmas 2.4 i7, 1 GB HD 6770, 8gb Ram, etc DISCLAIMER: THIS IS MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND I AM SIMPLY REPORTING THAT. IF YOU CHOOSE TO OVERCLOCK YOUR CARD/SYSTEM YOU, AS A HUMAN BEING, ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN DECISIONS. DON'T BLAME ME. With that out of the way.. First things first, the frame rates some of you are getting are completely unacceptable and you should be extremely angry at Apple and Bioware. Here are the things that I've done, and I'm getting 60fps at 1440x900 resolution. In fact, I'm getting 1800 3dmarks, which is incredible. First off, installed Boot Camp, obviously. Then, I immediately replaced the ATI drivers with the ones from here - These are the 64bit Windows 7 drivers, first link is to the download page, second link is a direct link to the drivers: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx http://www2.ati.com/drivers/11-12_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe They installed fine and replaced the horrible boot camp drivers. Next I downloaded ATI Tray Tools. I suggest googling for it, but it is a program that gives you access to a number of options for your card that aren't otherwise enabled, including overclocking. I'm not sure why Apple ships the 6770 underclocked, but it is unnecessary and really hampers performance. Doing a bit of googling, I discovered that most people have success and stability with their clocks set at 860/1050. I also locked the Anti-Aliasing at 4x and the Anistropic Filtering at 8x, both set to performance over quality. In game graphics settings are all maxed, including shaders and bloom, with one exception, and that is shadows set to low. Doing all of this gives me a solid 60fps indoors and out regardless of population. If I turn shadows to High it drops my framerate to the high 30's, which is completely unacceptable, again, we should all be angry at Bioware and Apple. I shouldn't take a 40% performance hit because shadows are turned up. Anyway, this is what I've done and the game looks and plays beautifully, hopefully this helps those of you with ATI cards out a bit. Please do ample research before making the decision to overclock any part of your system. You own a ~$2000 computer, don't melt it because you couldn't spend an hour educating yourself on google. If you do, don't get if you respond here and I laugh at you.
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