Frame Rate Drop with Lightning Blast

[HooblaDanOne]

Hello all!I'm a newbie to the game, and am having a blast so far. The game itself is awesome, and it generally performs well.However, I've been having a problem on my wizard.Lighting Blast, and Lightning Blast alone so far (level, oh.... 5...) causes a massive drop in my frame rate for a few seconds. Seeing as how this ONLY happens with Lightning Blast, I'd guess that this wasn't a problem with my computer's specs or set-up, but I've been known to guess wrong.Can anybody help?

[OFPsycho]

<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">It could be because you have the settings regarding Particle Effects Quality set you high for your computer's specifications.Go to Options, Performance, Particle Effects. Please state what the following settings are set to: Particle Quality, Max Spell Results per Character, Show Particles in Reflections, Show Particles in Reflections inside Houses, Particle Level of Detail (Far), Particle Level of Detail (Near), Maximum Particle Size.Also Please post your Direct X Diagnostics Tool Information (/dxdiag)</span></span>