Hi guys.

few weeks ago my computer started to act quite weird.
Im suffering from fps lag. when all is ok my fps sticks around 65. But it wont stay like that for a minute. Suddenly it drops to 15/20 or sometimes even lower. That makes it quite hard to play. Since i looked it up on goolge, i figured that i needed another videocard. i dont have the money to buy a new one, so i got one from my cousin. Full of exitement i plugged it in and restarted my computer to finaly game smoothly. But hey, guess again.. didnt work!
I tried to install game boosters and stuff like that but it also doesnt help. Now i`m sitting in the dark here about what im gonna do.
I dont have money to buy new components or whatever. So i hope a free solution will be there.

here are some of my computer details


CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz, 3000 Mhz
Graphic card GeForce 7600 GS
2046 MB memory
windows vista service pack 2
DirectX9

hope you guys can help. Thanks

you´re sure it´s a problem with ur videocard?
ur memory isn´t that good too!
i think it´s a problem with it!? isn´t it?
had the same problem with my old computer...

dunno other things but try it with more main memory maybe it helps!

its not the memory problem you can lower the settings down its a fault in your software i got 2gb ram and everything runs pretty smoothly on medium/high.

its not memmory or vid card
Hell sof was made to runn on pc mid 90's

Spec for sof..

Minimum:
PII - 400 MHZ
96 MB RAM
Voodoo 3

Average / Normal:
PIII - 700 MHZ
128 MB RAM
GeForce 2

High-End / Asskicking:
PIV - 1.5 GHZ
256 MB RAM
GeForce 3 or similar

Try this in console:

/rate 20000 /if you have Adsl Or grater conection..
/snaps 25 or 40
/com_maxfps 60 or 120 in console..
/r_displayRefresh 60 or what ever your display refresh rate is..

Try setting this one to off in settings
Impact Prediction

Dude you got twice the computer and your in the same country as the server...

I'm playing with ati 4600 1gb,
1gb ram
opteron 170 (http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Dual-Core%20Opteron%20170%20-%20OSA170DAA6CD%20%28OSA170CDBOX%29.html)
XP

This thing was fine until I put in office so that gets shitcanned.
When I get some extra cash I might bump the ram to3gb
When I get some time I'll format the operating system again and reload it so its fresh.
Oh, I have not ran any bullshit anti-virus in 7yrs on this machine.
When it acts up I give it a frontal lobotomy.
Then it becomes a new computer again  

I'd suggest getting rid of vista;
Search vista in this forum and you'll find one thing:
Vista sucks donkey balls.

Thanks for your reactions guys!
Im not only having this problem in sof but also in any other game i play.
I dont have any money to upgrade my pc. And i reinstalled windows a week ago.
Drivers are up to date aswell. I`ll try to get windows 7 and see if the problem gets solved then.

Thankss!