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WARNING: Changing your clocking settings can cause overheating and general wear on your video card. Although this workaround is pretty easy on your hardware, its good to be cautious. For reference I'm using Windows XP and the nVidia 7950GT card. I've updated to the latest Forceware drivers which you can find HERE. I'm also using Riviatuner, which can be found HERE. The problem seems to be that the video card stops rendering for varying amounts of time - then just continues normal operation. This translates into sudden drops in FPS and lots and lots of annoying "stuttering". You can fix this by "underclocking". This will prevent the software from throttling your card and causing those slowdowns. NOTE: Your card will run at full speed. Dont panic. The fix involves disabling clockspeed throttling at the driver level. 1)Update to the latest Forceware drivers. Note: This may not be necessary but its what I did and it worked for me. 2)Download and install Rivatuner. 3)Set EnablePerfLevelForcing function to 1 under the power user tab. http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8366/enableperflevelforcingli7.jpg 4a)Customize > System Settings 4b)Set the "force constant performance level" to "performance3d" and set Rivatuner to set the speeds at startup. http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7674/systemteakslp8.jpg 5)Restart. That should do it. Everything seems to work fine for me.

I agree. I also added a little warning at the top of my post.

Yep, but I was by 50% on gpu & ram. Dunno why. Seems best in my case to cut Ram by about 14% and leave Gpu alone. Cleared up all the funny artifacts I was getting since the SP1 update. Thanks for reminding me of Rivatuner, I missed it Yeah, this is just a very basic fix. Just a bandaid until whenever they decide to fix the drivers.

You're not necessarily underclocked - just locked in place. You can experiment with adjusting your speed and find that sweet spot.

Yeah I always have that enabled. It doesnt seem to have any real effect on that. If it does get hot you can always use rivatuner to turn up your fan speed. I'll have more solid information on performance after Saturday.

This was a lot of fun to test. They've added a lot to the game with this patch. Its changed the game for ShackTac and I sure it will have an equal effect for the entire community.

The coolest thing is seeing how all the stories intersect. Around the time of the "Contact Front" section, a 3-man group of us were were engaging mixed infantry and light vehicles from a house. Another members AAR mentions hearing an explosion from the fuel dump objective. That was the same 3-man group.