@Icemael said: " Modern Warfare 2 gave me an STD. "@Toope said: " Given the millions of people who've purchased the game, I'm certain at least a few of them have STD's. "Nobody noticed these?  Haha. Anyway, I play it on my PC.

That thing would fit perfectly in an **** or ******.  Something's amiss though, methinks it's a trap.

I myself don't really think it's him, but felt compelled to point out the blue eyes.

Take a lookie. Blue eyes on both. Coincidence? Who knows.  Ghost. Don't forget to zoom and look closely.   Gaz.

My temp fix is lowering the pre-rendered frames to 0. When I do that, most of the stuttering is gone, but 30% of my framerate drops. Meaning, I have to stick to 1024x600 and 2x anti-alising. In other words, same as console versions. :D

@Poki3 said: " I have a GeForce 8800 GTS and an Intel Core2Duo @1.8 Ghz, 4 GB Ram (though due to the system it's caped), XP. I run the game at 1680x1050, Automatic textures, 2x AA, rest on Highest.  Game is smooth all the time, except in 3 places where I get a heavy, 5 FPS-like slideshow: - Infiltrating the Oil Rig, when the other submarine comes into view. - ...

I'm also scanning for viruses, turns out I had 3 buggers. And the scan is still going, so could be more.

I just noticed an option for Threaded Optimization in my Nvidia control panel, set to auto. I'm going to try turning it to ''always on'' and see if it works fine whilst pre-rendering frames is set to the default 3.

Edited my post with more details. :)

I tried, but it still does that. As I said, unless it stops pre-rendering frames, it's real bad.  Ugh, why couldn't PC games at least have the option to cap frames? I loved how RE5 gave you not one but two choices, 30 and 60. I'd prefer a constant 60 rather than have it go up to 100 only to slow down to around 60 again anyway.  Okay, here's what ...

Lemme be honest here, I don't really give two shits about the framerate itself. It can go down all it wants, but when it starts to skip frames and hitch along with pauses, it drives me literally insane. And as I said, could the hitching be due to viruses?

Well I didn't exactly pay a lot for that videocard, so I'm more than happy with what I got =D  Anyway, I think the addition of streaming textures and full ragdolls really stresses the cpu out. Even if pre rendered frames is set to 0, the cpu is hard at work calculating ragdolls, effects, checkpoints, etc. So that's probably why it don't have room to pre-render frames.  But you'd think ...

Hm, well, if I set the pre-rendered frames to anything above 0 it does the slideshow-thing. I must note this is the only game to do this. Even it's big brother COD4 didn't give me such problems. However, I did cap COD4 at 60 frames via the console...  Oh, yeah, and my video drivers are up to date. I downloaded them immediately after getting the new card. So, the CPU ...

I know, right, the game that runs at rock solid 60 frames on outdated consoles? Well, not so well on my PC, apparently. Before you say it's not up to snuff, here are my specs.  E5200 2.5 Ghz; 9800 GT Silent Cell, 4 GB RAM, XP SP3.  Now, what I'm experiencing isn't exactly a low framerate. It's maybe a bit of the opposite, actually. When the frames go over 100 ...