hardware?!?!?

[Morganna]

For some reason MSAA needs to be set to none. My laptop has DoF on textures and shadows on high but and the other on standard (8). Basically ambient needs to be off and in some cases MSAA as well.

Thank you leomike35 I will definitely try that tomorrow when I am able to play again. Much appreciated.

[Soukyuu]

I have something like this (a mugen2) and mine is still at ~54° on max load in summer, but my room is on the top floor so maybe that's why. Had to put a lot of fans into my case to get it down to acceptable temps.. and i even had to undervolt my Phenom II X4

[Laraul]

CPU temps really don't have much influence on stability unless they become obnoxiously high. Unless you are regularly getting BSODs and the like your CPU temp is not much of a factor.

[nasomi]

I run on less than max settings, because I like max fps at all times. I have noticed that a huge difference was made when I installed a solid state drive and put the game on that. But dual gtx580's in SLI with nvidia surround has allowed me to play at 5760x1920 at draw quality 8, everything else max, 16x AA, AO and DoF off. But my cards are screaming at that point. Still it looks damned good.