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If your looking for a good story line go for Planescape Torment. It's probably got one of the best story lines ever created. Here's a fairly good review of it. I hate Planescape: Torment. And that is the reason you should listen to me. - Baldur's Gate Forums. P.S. I personally enjoyed it a lot.

Probably the only answer to this would be bad optimization coding, apart from that it might just be that the one game was primarily coded with Nvidia in mind and the other with Amd. You may want to look at this forum thread as well as it basically answers the same question. http://forum.techinferno.com/pc-gaming/7217-actual-quality-graphics-vs-system-requirements.html

There's not much point in allowing a game to run at a frame rate above your pc's (laptops) screen refresh rate, as obviously your only going to be able to see the probably 60 or 120 frames your screen renders in any case. Other than that larger, or just frame rates that do not divide into your screens frame rate easily can cause tearing. What this really means is that one, when your frame rate is higher than your refresh rate the GPU is using energy it doesn't need to use, (it will always run at peak levels otherwise) two it therefore will heat up more than it has too (unless you want to find out how hot your GPU can get before it get's fried there is no point to this - or waste money on energy you don't have to, and your cooling is good enough to handle this), and three you may cause tearing in the screen and cause the graphical beauty of your game to be rendered null and void, (exaggeration, but I'm guessing you get what I mean.)