Particle effects and massive slowdown

[Stromgarde]

For whoever is wondering, I'm using ATI/AMD Catalyst 11.2 drivers with an ATI Radeon HD3850 and the slowdown for the maws is much less than when I used anything from 9.5 to 11.1

Prior to switching to Catalyst 11.2 I got fairly decent results with Catalyst 9.4 drivers. Give it a shot if you have an ATI/AMD card.

Interesting. Do you have a link handy?

Edit: Tried it, on an i7 920 with 12GB of RAM and a Radeon X4890 card I'm still taking a 10 fps hit per object with that effect on it that's close to the camera. Incidentally, Camlann's Torment uses a similar effect and due to the proximity of the glowy lance thing to the camera I drop to ~10 FPS towards the end of that animation. Why SE felt the need to start using problematic rendering techniques like crazy after no modern computer can run them properly anymore is beyond me.