First of all... I sympathize with all who are having performance issues with the new update.
My system is a Dell quad 2.4 ghz, with an NVidia 8500 GT, Vista Home Premium 32 bit, 2 GB RAM. I downloaded latest NVidia driver
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and went into NVidia control panel to adjust card for "Performance" on the slider (see screenshot). Screenshots below are in the Furball arena after driver update and adjusting card for "performance". In AcesHigh, I turned off Detailed Water and Object Self Shadow. I set Ground Range=.5, Object Detail=faster. Good luck.
PS: Lowering AcesHigh 'Video Settings' resolution to 1024x768 from a higher video setting seemed to help Framerate performance some too.


