Eddie77:
I have been doing the same for a couple of weeks now, my suggestion was to have a switch in settings where we could toggle animations on and off like shadows.
Turning off the shadows helped me immensely. That, and quite a bit of resolution tweaking on the game and windows settings.
I now play on a tiny corner of the screen, and need a magnifying glass to read most of the text (green speed, top tracer, etc), but at least the meter is somewhat predictable.
Ark