FRAME RATE, Low Frame Rate need help Options

[Doyle]

I am experiencing problems that I am hoping someone may know something that could help me.

Here is the problem:

On the average my fps is 20-22fps. When close to someone else or with lots of activity going on it will even drop to single digits.

It is especially frustrating when I come up against someone that is getting decent fps. More times than I care to remember I have come up against someone and have them cold turkey dead to rights. I open on them first but they can turn and even kill me and they don't have a scratch. Now... before someone says improve my marksmanship.. please don't go there.



Here is the equipment that I am running:

Gateway E-3600

Windows XP Pro SP3

Intel P4 1.50 gig processor

8k primary mem cache

256k secondary mem cache

40.02 Gig Hard drive (with 20gigs free)

100 meg Bus Clock

Intel Bios

768 Megs Memory

Dell 24" wide angle monitor 1920x1440 res

RADEON X850Pro 256Meg GDDR3 memory



If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it.



Thanks everyone

[Major.Pain]

Ok, you might want to sit down for this Doyle. IMO the only decent part of your system is your video card. Your bottleneck is your cpu and lack of memory. 40 gig hard drives tend to be a bit on the slow side as well. As uncomfortable as this might be to hear, I believe it's time to shift that computor to #2 position and go for a newer one. Not a lot of money involved to go to a used (and there are plenty out there) P4 2.8 or 3.0 with a 800fsb. Decent motherboard 478 for cheap and at least a gig of ram. 200 gig hard drives are way under $100 these days. Stick that Radeon X850 Pro in and you'll be fine for COD.



But then you knew this all along



-Pain

[Doyle]

Ok, you might want to sit down for this Doyle. IMO the only decent part of your system is your video card. Your bottleneck is your cpu and lack of memory. 40 gig hard drives tend to be a bit on the slow side as well. As uncomfortable as this might be to hear, I believe it's time to shift that computor to #2 position and go for a newer one. Not a lot of money involved to go to a used (and there are plenty out there) P4 2.8 or 3.0 with a 800fsb. Decent motherboard 478 for cheap and at least a gig of ram. 200 gig hard drives are way under $100 these days. Stick that Radeon X850 Pro in and you'll be fine for COD.



But then you knew this all along



-Pain

Unfortunately I did however was hoping for some solution without having to spend the money for a computer just to be able to play this silly game.



Doyle