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I believe it has something to do with insufficient current being supplied by the power supplier, like Mister Frag said. I also had this problem with Win XP. Most of the time it happens due to overclocked CPU (like in my case) or playing with the memory (RAM) speed. All these manipulations may increase the game speed but often they consume more power and the game becomes unstable (Win XP is sensitive to overclocking).

Hi guys! Finally I am able to play the game without slowdowns. I just changed from Direct 3D H-L to simple Direct 3D and the game runs fine. I suppose OFP doesn't like Radeon cards + Win XP and H-L enabled. My friend has the problem with it also. As for "fastwrites in BIOS" the official respond from ATi is that Radeon and new cards (7500, 8500) do not use fastwrites. But it doesn't matter if they are enabled or disabled. But I think it's better to leave it disabled.

Hi guys! I tried to check it on memory leaks. Launched the Battlefield single player mission and started to play after 15 minutes the slowdown began to appear so I quickly hit the "magic" combination Ctrl-Alt-Del. The memory use was (Win XP + OFP) 190MB, 136MB for OFP only but I have 256MB, so it shouldn't be the problem, also the was some other program don't recall the name (started with "~") but it ate only 0.9MB. Also changed different playmods: tried to disable W-buffer, Multitexturing, resolution 1024-768, all shadows off, lowered the amount of lights, EAX and Hardware acceleration off; the one I didn't try is to change from Direct 3D H-L to simple Direct 3D. Also I'll try BIOS tweaks. Do Radeon owners need fastwrites in BIOS enabled? If Plug and Play OS is disabled in BIOS can I still manually assign IRQ's to devices? Thanks for replies.

Hi guys! Few days ago I decided to give a try with Win XP. And so far I like it. But after the clean install of XP my favorite game, OFP, doesn't play nice. At first it plays smooth but after 15 minutes or so the movements get jerky and choppy. And I don't understand why. I updated my video, sound drivers - nothing helps. Even increased swap file to 800MB - still no go. Any ideas. Every other game plays nice (Return to Castle Wolfenstein). I have the US version of the game 1.20. I also tried 1.30 and 1.40; also tried Red Hammer. The game runs very well on Win 98. Maybe XP isn't good after all My comp.: AMD 1.33Ghz Thunderbird ASUS A7M266 with 256MB of Ram (Crucial) Sound Blaster Live 5.1 X-Gamer ATi Radeon 64MB ViVo