Dominions, Vista, and Video files help?

[K]

I'm trying to optimize my laptop for Dominions and I was wondering if anyone had any data about the video files. What kind of rendering does it use?

I have a program (Catalyst Control Center)that lets me optimize my graphics card for certain kinds of 3D rendering, but I need to know what Dominions battle files use so that I can adjust my settings (I think... I admit I'm out of my comfort zone). I've turned off Vista's visual crap and that seems to help, but here are CCCs settings:

The setting possibilities are:
-Anti-aliasing (scales for performance or quality)
-Anti-sotropic filtering (scales for performance or quality, with a high quality AF toggle)
-mipmap detail levels (scales for performance or quality)
-Direct3D Settings: Enable geometry instancing (toggle)
-Direct3D Settings: Support DXT Texturing (toggle)
-OpenGL settings: Triple-buffering (toggle)
-OpenGL settings: Support 24-bit Z-buffer depth (toggle)


Any help would be appreciated!