I've only had a couple hours to mess with the latest patch so far. As far as performance I've seen a big decline in performance coming out of Pearl (might be due to the wrecked battleships). I'm seeing FPS is the mid 20's to low 30's in harbor (used to be mid 40's in 1.2). I've noticed the spray from the props causes big FPS loss in external cam which wasn't the case in 1.2. In open ocean and attacking a small convoy yielded about the same frame rate. However the spray from the torpedos when they hit also caused FPS loss as well.
I did a complete uninstall, reinstall, and patch directly to 1.3. All graphics and sound setting set exactly as they were from 1.2 and I'm running 1200x960 4xAA and 8x AF (same as before). Running most current Nvidia drivers.
Overall I'm happy with the patch. Slightly disappointed in the degrade in performance though.
Specs:
Core2Duo 6600 @ 2.4Ghz
2 gigs DDR2 800
8800GTS 320Mb
Sound Blaster X-Fi ExtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional
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