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Thanks to a couple of tips I found on the Internet, I managed to configure DX2 to run nicely on my machine.

• Use "MouseLagThreshold=0" in the System\\default.ini file. This is initially 75 (milliseconds?)
• More importantly, if you have an NVIDIA card, in the NVIDIA Media Center that appears in your taskbar, set the Performance & Quality Settings, Antialiasing Settings to Off (by default it is on)
• As always, change the video settings to the lowest possible (640 x 480), low lighting, shadow and character detail

It's now running very nicely, although still in 640 x 480, but with medium detail settings. It also seems okay, just on the border of being playable, in 800 x 600 with low detail. It looks really nice on 1024 x 768 with high detail, but I'm probably getting about 5 fps. Is there any way to display the number of frames per second in DX2? Leave a comment if you know.

I have a couple of gripes with the game, such as the multi-purpose ammunition (all guns use the same ammo clips) and it seems a little more simplistic than the original one, but at least now I feel that I'm going to get the full experience of the game, rather than some laggy garbage.