[quote="Firebrand":2qstlt81]I think it depends much on which card you are using, sometimes the drivers make difference too, for example, D3D doesn't works with Vavoom with the latest GForce drivers from NVidia.
I'm not sure that it doesn't work.. but rather I get some extreme texture corruption whether the hires textures/models are loaded.. or anisotropic filtering is disabled or not (I use app preference for both AA and anisotropic filtering)
I'm inclined to believe that the NVidia drivers exhibit huge problems in Direct3D (as if the video card was overclocked, when it is not).. on the other hand, it doesn't exactly explain the performance issues in Direct3D on ATI hardware with models...