I'm currently playing spellforce on 1600x1200 8x anustrophnic filtering and little slowdown when I have an army of like 80 units. I'm not sure why items were hard to move at 1600x1200 in BD, but going down to 1280x960 fixed it. Also the game feels a bit better at the lower res, I'm not sure what the problem is at 1600x1200. I'll test that out more when I get home as my home machine is a bit beefier (3.06ghz/fx 5900 vid) than my work machine (2.8c/fx 5200). Then I'll be able to tell if the problems with 1600 were due to the weaker video card or just a problem with the game.
I'll play some more and see if I can work through some of my issues with the game. I'd really like to be able to scroll around the map using WASD instead of mousing to the sides.
Ohh. I have a p3 666mhz computer with a Geforce 2 GTS card, so BD's requirements are closer to me than Spellforce. The demo of SF ran VERY choppy here.