Frame rate is king

[Storm of When]

My rig is middle of the road, but according to the published req`d specs should have been capable of playing this.

4gb RAM
3.5ghz quad core Phenom
4870x2
on a 21" CRT at the 1280x?x32 settings.
Win7 64bit

In the game I set everything at mid/low settings and disabled the AA and the grass and road options. This set up gets you ..... plane externals that are not as good as UP2.01 and scanning with ctrl F2 I saw Hurricanes that looked like they`d fell straight out of the original Microsoft WW2 flight sim from 10 years ago, no spinners and as blocky as you`ll ever see. Get anywhere near land and you`ll halve your framerate, get anywhere near a major town or worse a city and you are down to single figures. I did enter the text to disable the Epi filter as well, but there was still no prop in the cockpit view (so i`m unsure if that had any effect).

My FF2 did not force feedback (may be a missed option)
My quad core was only running on one core, this was released on Friday as a cutting edge game but appears to not support multi-cores, dunno??.
And X-Fire not working as well (previously stated as not working I know).

So just what is going on here, I can`t help feeling disappointed and if you could see what i`m playing i`ve no doubt you`d agree. IL2 or IL2 with UP2.01 is currently superior to this, the only saving grace i`ve seen are the cockpits which are superb.


Ps I do play RoF at nearly max settings and I average 40 fps with my rig.