A funny thing about performance...
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I have 3 computers in my home and Elemental now runs the fastest on the slowest one. Elemental used to be so slow on my laptop it was virtually unplayable. Now for some reason, ever since 1.0.7, Elemental runs best on it. The performance on my desktop machine has gone largely unchanged (still slow). Oh and that third machine? It won't run at all on it...CTD on launch.