1/15 fps even on lowest settings

[parasite]

Thanks a bunch, that solved it =D.
Do you know why image trail bogs my system down?
Is it extremely hardware intensive? or might it be some wierd driver issue with that effect.

Though a new problem appeared now when I was able to actually play the game.

The game seems to be running smooth as silk when i turned off image trail, I'm able to navigate the castle and open doors and whatnot, but when i try to press escape to enter the menu the game just stops responding. The menu does not even appear, it just stops dead before the text should have appeared.

(so potentially I might be able to clear the game in one sitting, though that does not have a huge appeal =P)

It shows up as not responding in task manager as well, and remains at 50% cpu.