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I have a system that is higher than the original recommended specs of the game some custom maps still lower my fps to unacceptable levels.

Does your system suffer on any of the stock maps? Bridge/Crossroads perhaps?

If it doesn't then it's just the custom maps being poorly designed, or deliberately designed for high end spec machines. If you're willing to dish out money just so you can play on these particular maps then go right ahead.

But no way will just upgrading your gfx card do the trick.

I used to have a Voodoo3 16mb and a Duron 700Mghz setup with 384mb pc133 ram. MoH stock maps mostly ran 20-30 fps except for the bigger ones that ran as low as 10 fps.

So, I upgraded my gfx card to a gf3 ti200 64mb DDR and my performance, whilst a little better, did not increase by any significant level.

Not too long ago I upgraded my CPU to an Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67ghz), 512 DDR ram and I still have the same gfx card.

MoH now runs smooth as anything, even on the worst maps.

Except, as I said, on some large or badly designed custom maps.

It's up to you.

I'd rather not play these maps. There are lots of custom maps out there tha run smoothly on mid-range pcs. But if you want to run them smoothly you'll more than likely have to upgrade your whole system so every component is of a similar level of architecture.