Quake 4 dub-par performance/High end sys

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Peregrin

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So I bought the following parts in the hopes of building a nice gaming system (well it is for some games):

ASUS A8n-SLI Deluxe nForce4
Athlon 64 3800+ X2
2 gigs Corsair XMS DDR400 (twin sticks)
eVGA nVidia 7800 gt 256 mb ddr3
Seagate SATA 7200.9 160 gig hdd
Coolmax 650 watt psu

Quake 4 runs generally well, but at certain points the FPS slows down to ridiculously low levels. At one point, during the briefing mission in which the control room has a dozen or so in-game monitors and a 3d command map, my FPS slows down to a steady 20, no matter how low I set my graphics. Also, multiplayer (and sometimes single player in certain areas) has large FPS drops at times, when I know other people with similar setups but slightly weaker GPU's (and procs) who can maintain a steadier FPS. Like I said, most of the single player runs *okay*, but there are still unexplained slowdowns, especially for a system like that.

Battlefield 2 on the otherhand runs generally well with hardly any slowdowns, but I guess performance *could* be better.

I've double checked drivers, reinstalled windows, and checked BIOS settings. I'm all out of ideas.
 
Your forceware settings are __________________.
Your in-game settings are __________________.
 
Oh, sorry. Long day.

Forceware: running at quality (changing to performance makes no real difference though)
No AA, no AF, trilinear enabled.

In-game settings: 1280x1024, High Quality, no vsync, no AA

Also, no matter how fast I set the Forceware settings, or how low I put the in-game settings, it still drops to 20fps and also has significant drops in multiplayer.
 
Are you running the game patched with smp enabled? That helps GREATLY.
 
Yeah, but I still get only 25-35 fps in that one room, and still a good amount of slowdowns online. I wouldn't be so concerned, but someone I know running a single core p4 3ghz and a slower GPU can maintain 60 fps on high quality 1024x768.

Unless the geometry in multiplayer is knocking the crap out of the CPU?
 
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