Upon doing some reading on a couple different fourms, I found that the latest drivers 186.?? are having some issues. (bluescreens, lockups, and some other minor anoyances ). So I opted to not download them.
I spent several hours messing with control panel, and finally somehow. Everything smoothed out fine, not sure why as I found that, if I made a change in control panel, then closed it, it reverted back to the previous setting. How I got everthing smooth was to force @ 8X AA. then miniumize cvontrol panel then run the game.
Weird stuff for sure, game looked awesome! Yes once I finally closed control panel everything reverted back to where it had always been, and the game still looked great.

My frame rates throughout this adventure never changed really ( around 70 all the time) . So in the end, this dumb gearhead has no clue what happened or why

. I'm told I could look in Nvidia's driver archives to find a known good driver, ie 185. ?? But I not sure I want to go there, at least right now.
Thanks for the replys, they were appreicated
