Ok at some points in the game it has 125 fps thenthe next second in the same spot with nothing else going on they drop to 60-90, just wondering if this is normal, and if not how do i fix it, thnx

P4@ 2.0ghz
512mb ram
100 gig 7200 rpm hard drive
Radeon 9700 Pro 128 Mb DDR

Its normal.  I see 115 fps easy in hallways and when I'm alone on certain maps.  Then it goes down to 50-60 in heavy battle with lows of 40 when I'm on a large map with 18+ players.  Ti 4600 btw.  

Its not normal however if your by yourself, say in your own non-dedicated server.

-edit-  Running at 1280x1024x32, 2xAA, MAX graphics settings, uncompressed textures.  The only way to play. -edit-

if you have 9700 go and get 3drage tweak
it allows you to customize more stuff like AA and amount of details also has overclocking utility

I have gf4 mx 440 and my frame rate is usually between 60 and 90.

I've heard some rather negative things about the GF MX series. I know with my old ATI 7500 I would et 60-70 until I got into a battle, but I dont know how much more you should expect to see from a GF MX.

geforce 4 (asus, nvidia) ti4400 128MB DDR

And when I'm alone, i have fps of 125 (that's my maxfps settings) and when only *ONE* person sets in my screen, it drops to 40. I had gf3 (gainward, nvidia) and it had the same max fps, and when someone came to the screen, it only dropped to 90-100. And in tests gf4 ti4400 has beaten gf3 ti200, so I was wondering should I fall back on some drivers or what? current drivers for gf4 are R31.40d

(windows XP pro 5.1)

"Turn anti-aliasing off" ? how

coz i get the NULL src when I take those detos.. just thought if I turn anti-aliasing off will it work then?

i get 550 fps in SOF 1 (timerefresh).   If you have the ATI Radeon 9700 or 9500 pro go and get the new catalyst (3.0) if you dont have it already.  It gives you a menu similar to geforce's ti series, so you can tweak a bunch of stuff.  Make sure you turn off vsync