Hello, I would say I have a rather good setup for FS...but I am still only pulling 8-12FPS. Any ideas on how I can bring it up a litt.e...I've seen systems with lower specs get better..Windows XP Professional (On own partition)Creative Geforce 4 Ti4600 128MBAMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73Ghz)512MB PC2700 (DDR 333)Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM Overall..20GB taken..Abit KD-7 M/B40.72's DriversI don't want to overclock...but would like to improve frame rates a little..

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Get the 43.45 Drivers for your graphics card, make sure you have DX 9, other then that, not much more you can do if you dont want to overclock, hopefully some other people have some more idea's for you.

Matt,First things first. Why are you running XP on it's own partition?. If it is due to the fact that you would like to save apps and such in the evnt of a crash that's a good idea but due to the way XP access's and stores files your choking it's performance by splitting your disk in 2 separate partitions.Now, 8-12 FPS is not that bad for your combination. yes you can do better but don't look for unrealistic goals. with that said as far as tweaking your setup goes, where are your sliders set?. Most of them can be set at around 75-80% w your current VC. You may want to turn cloud density and ground shadows off for a slight boost.Head over to www.blackviper.com and download his tweak sheet for XP's services. Using the settings under "Internet connection" disable those services that are reccomended. This should help free up anywhere from 20-70 Megs of memory.Download and install the latest drivers from www.omegacorner.com.Turn the wick up on that card a little. you can safely run a 50-100 Mhz overclock on the core side and a 50-70 Mhz overclock on the memory side w it.If you spend some cash and invest in a good Heatsink and fan for your CPU the Abit board is a very capable performer when it comes to Overclocking.Bobby

Disable Vsync inthe drivers..in order to do that for Open GL and D3D you need to get an Nvidia tweak utility called Coolbits

ccgr,Thats why I told him to go with the Omega's. (Besides the performance and visual quality they give). The tweak is already in there as far as I ca remember. Disabling Vsync is an option unless he's running his monitor over 75Mhz refresh rate at which point it doent really hurt performance that much.Bobby