performance decrease/ crashes

[jd42]

Hi there,

My setup is as follows

AMD 64 3500 Newcastle w/Artic Cooling Freezer 64 OC'd to 2.4ghz
4X512 PC3200 running in DC
x800xt w/ Artic Cooling Heatsink & Fan OC'd to PE speeds (520/560)
MSI Neo2 Platinum MOBO
Seagate 120GB HD
AC97 Realtek 5.1

WinXP Pro All updates

Running Omega Drivers 3.8.205

Recently my BF2 performance has been going steadily downhill and my fps is now in the low 20s and low 30s most of the time. Im running everything medium bar effects, view distance 100% filtering 100% and AA 2X. My performance used to be much better and I can't seem to isolate whats causing it. So far i have tried the following:

Downloaded PB update
Tried pb_sleep 500
Ran All low settings (barely any improvement)
Increased AGP aperture size to 256
Disabled Fastwrites
Changed the name of the BF2 shortcut
Tried to increase the OC - this just caused crashing
Defragged
Spyware + AV Scan
Free'd up HD space

Can anybody shed any light as to what might be wrong or what I can try as im pretty sure my system should be able to handle BF2 with a constantly playable fps. Any help appreciated

jd42

[Talus]

Re: performance decrease/ crashes

Installed any new software recently?

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: performance decrease/ crashes

did u try clearing ur optimization files?

[redearedslider]

Re: performance decrease/ crashes

till a few days ago i had performance decrease... not as low as you but 50-70 fps punkbuster update and resetting my modem fixed my problem...

[imported_GR|M|IN]

Re: performance decrease/ crashes

Changed the name of the BF2 shortcut

jd42

LMAO thats funny. Anyways

Im no a PSU expert but how much watts you got in your PSU. What are you temps for you card?

Now Im gonna ask a question. Would his card maybe be burning out?