Okay I noticed that some people complain of bad fps when it may not have even been a problem, just because the fps drops to 30 sometimes does not make you a member of my exclusive club. (yes I know everyone wants to be cool and join.)
Heres an idea. Lets compare some benchmarks of systems outside of SOF2 with the fps we get in the game. Who knows, maybe we could get this as a sticky if it helps figure some stuff out.
First order of business:
It's obvious that I get bad fps, The best and easiest place for me to show this is through most of the prague level, especially from the very begining upto and through the shipping container area.
We need to find an easy and informative benchmark program that shows that yes our machine does run well and that its not a hardware issue. Any suggestions?
If we can show that we get the same in depth benchmarks as people like dysfunctional and raven yet bad fps then it should prove once and for all its not us or our machines.

I'm thinking we could try
3DMARK2001 Second Edition (build 330)
Then we could post our results and do some comparisons.

*EDIT*
Ramrod has had it up to here with people being insulting and vulgar. Please refrain from such behavior in this and other posts. Yes we are all mad, but being white trash about it doesn't make it get fixed any faster. I know I tried it for quite a while and it almost got me banned.

vulpine - 1024x768 - 99.3FPS
3dmark - 1024x768 - 9436

vulpine - 1280x1024 - 85FPS

It probably doesn't matter though: no AI in benchmarking!
my rig doesn't have the highest scores ever, but it cooks these benchmarks and other games nicely-

Okay I haven't heard of vulpine, can you post some links and stuff for it. Yes your right about AI and such. But AI is a cpu intensive proccess, which means that the video card should not make a difference. The idea behind this is to show that our system benchmarks everything just as well as other peoples machines. I think dysfunctional and his followers will have a hard time blaming us or our hardware if all of our benchmarks match or beat theirs.
I'm going to be running 3Dmark tonight and posting my results here too.
I would appreciate it if Raven, Farmer Dell, and other peeps who have decent to high rigs and great fps post their results here too, this will give us something to compare to.
Thanks.

Kesh,
gentlemanly suggestion.  I do not have the open gl thingie... but I will look for it.  here is madonion:
10672
I do not get outstanding frames in SOF2 but the game is smooth and runs 25fps to 60fps in the Prague area.
pent4 2gig @2.2
leadtek 4600 315/715
Abit th72raid
2ibm 60gig hds in raid 0
I ran the complete test 1024 x 768 32bit color
At Madonion you have people posting scores with high end AMD rigs well over 11,000.  My score would be considered only fair.

vulpine -

http://www.majorgeeks.com/article.php?sid=179

links on right mid to bottom

I am serious about the score....  Some people at Madonion make a hobby out of tweaking/cooling their rigs for scores. The latest AMD rigs score over 11,000.  I can push my rig up to 2.4gig but I still peak at 10,800.  In the summer the computer room gets too hot!!!

Kesh,
Glad I can help in your search... and add some humor to this event!!  maybe this can be a whole new thing for us!!  We can become buddies and such.

I score about 9700 on 3dmark 2001se.

soyo dragon+
xp1800
512megs ddr pc2100
ti4400
xp pro

I'll download and run vulpine later and edit my post.