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[quote="Bazooka_Joe":f52f1]

Originally Posted by ozzy1965

Your P4 1.7 isn't helping much, it was the 2nd slowest, next to the 1.5 that they ever made. Also, if your memory is pc133 or 100 that's not helping you much either.

So? I got a 1.5Ghz machine with a Ti 4600 too, and I got 65FPS normally.[/quote:f52f1]

If everything else is equal, then you have some sort of bottleneck that Joe doesnt have. It could be ram, not enough or slower ram, or it could be your mobo and/or frontside bus. You could also have an old windows install that is slowing your system down. Especially if it is win98 or 95. Those two will slowly eat themselves and will lose a fair amount of effcientcy over a year or two of use. How many items do you have in your system tray? Each item may be a program that is running at the same time as the game and sharing resources. What is your system utilization when you are doing nothing?

In short, it could be any of dozens of things and it is hard to tell without seeing all the variables, and even then it might be hard to isolate the true cause. It wont hurt to update your drivers, defrag your hd, minimize the number of items in your sys tray, run virus checks, check the in game settings, etc.