As the title says, is it possible? I've heard plenty of people max out Patch 7 with acceptable FPS, but what I'm worried about the ridiculous texture pop-in. I'm running the following specs currently:
Intel i7 2600K @ 3.4GHz (3.8 Turbo Boost)
8GB RAM
eVGA GTX 560 Ti 1GB
Everything but Shadows is maxed out (those are on High, as opposed to Very High), and though I don't have any exact figures the FPS is acceptable to my eye, but I get some pretty noticeable texture pop-in. I have tried experimenting with command line settings a long time ago to fix it, but I never managed to get rid of the pop-in (though I do recall increasing my FPS and getting the game to let me choose Very High shadows, but the pop-in remained). My birthday is coming up soon, so I wouldn't mind snagging some new hardware if that's what it takes. I've been thinking of experimenting with overclocking as well, or maybe installing IV on my SSD. If it weren't for LCPDFR I'd just downgrade to Patch 4, but I still want to be able to play the latest version of the mod - it's awesome, after all!