Realistic Shadows on Plants 1.003

[Bellum]

I started getting around 20FPS in a larger battle so I started looking for options to turn down that wouldn't seriously degrade visual quality.

I turned Realistic Shadows on Plants to 'Quick' to see what it looked like. Wow, I thought, that looked ugly. Then I looked again, and the option had set itself to "None". So either I have Full or None, quick doesn't work. Is this an issue with my machine or with the game?

OS: Windows XP
Memory: 3326 MB
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo 2.53 GHz
GPU: GeForce 8800 GT

Also, the game is set to the default "force single threading". Would unchecking this help performance? I remember in an earlier version people with multicore processors were reporting sudden jerks that I haven't seen in this version, at least with the option checked.

 

[Archonsod]

If you have a multi core CPU disabling  single threading should let it utilise all cores and thus boost performance. If not, then it won't do anything.