if any are interested, these are the setting i used care of Minoos on the ubi forum. note that i'm not blaming him for the above

such are the vagaries of computer code
Hotkeys - disabledAnti-Aliasing - 4xAnisotropic filtering - 8xCatalyst A I - AdvancedAdaptative AA - disabledVsync - off/app setting
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