Illustrious

how you can call MOH and max payne higher end i dont know MOH is quake 3 with new textures, and the maps in max payne are tiny! i think ofp has to be the most demanding game i have.. and when you see the size of the maps, and complex AI its not hard to see why.. but yeah, you will need a real graphics card, and some more ram wouldnt hurt.. ofp is nice when you have 256mb+ but if i were you, id upgrade to at least 512mb and as for a graphics card, id get the radeon 8500. or a geforce 4 just for bragging rights if money is no object

whats your swap file set to? in windows 98 i couldnt get ofp to stop crashing till i set a 384mb swap file. this might not be the case as you have enough ram, but its worth a try..

i noticed something like this but thought it was just when u shoot bodies.. i first found it when some guy killed half of my squad.. i went psycho, killed him then went to empty a few hundred rounds into him.. i died though :/ i thought it might have been some strange ricochet but there were no blood splats on me, appart from my hands which had got shot earilier on in the mission. seems to work with all automatic guns, not tried it in burst or semi