Ok, let me start from the beginning... About a week or two ago I had a GeForce2 MX 400 (teh suxx0r). It's not the greatest card (not even close), but it worked fine - my fps was stable, the graphics were ok - but then one day (in mid-game) my fps started jumping around like a little school girl on crack (for no reason, I didn't mess with anything - and I didn't give it crack... erm, ok...). It would go from 1 to 125, then down to 18, then back up - back and forth. After doing that for a minute or so, it would go back to normal for about 2 minutes, and then start again. I couldn't take it, I could barely move. My fps would just go crazy, then go back to normal, then go crazy again. I tried lowering my settings, that didn't work - I tried maxing my settings, that didn't work. I even reinstalled Windows, that didn't work. Finally I gave in, I went out and bought a new card, a GeForce4 MX440 (still not a great card, but better than my old one - I could've got a Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB for the same price, would that have been better?). After installing my new card, I started up SoF. Everything was fine for the first 2 minutes, then... YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!!! ...My fps started jumping up and down again.

So now I'm back to where I started... I tried everything (messing with my settings, reinstalling my os, even buying a new video card - nothing worked!). The thing that pisses me off the most is that this just started for no reason. I've been playing SoF for almost a year with a GeForce2 and I never had a single problem with my fps until a week ago. Now I can't fix it...

Here's my DxDiag stuff, if that can help anyone help me!

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System Information
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Time of this report: 2/2/2003, 08:20:45
Machine name: OEMComputer
Operating System: Microsoft Windows ME (4.90, Build 3000)  
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: SNC302EEH
System Model: SNC302EEH
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon™ processor,  MMX,  3DNow, ~1400MHz
Memory: 256MB RAM
Page File: 117MB used, 1675MB available
Primary File System: FAT32
DirectX Version: DirectX 8.1 (4.08.01.0881)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 4.08.01.0881 32bit

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DxDiag Notes
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DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
Display Tab 1: The file nvdisp.drv is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware
Quality Labs.  You may be able to get a signed driver from the manufacturer of the hardware device.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Music Tab: No problems found.
Input Tab: No input devices detected.
No problems found.
Network Tab: No problems found.

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type:
DAC type:
Device ID: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0171&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\000800
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit)(optimal refresh rate)
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: nvdisp.drv
Driver Version: 4.13.01.4109 (English)
DDI Version: 8 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 11/18/2002 14:15:00, 103424 bytes
Driver Signed: No
WHQL Date Stamp: None
VDD: *vdd
Mini VDD: nvmini.vxd
Mini VDD Date: , 0 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4231-11CF-BD73-012001C2C935}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0171
SubSys ID: 0x00000000
Revision ID: 0x00A3
Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
DDraw Test Result:
D3D7 Test Result:
D3D8 Test Result:





PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!

Are you running Nvidia drivers or Microsoft Drivers

NVIDIA

Go here and download the detonator destroyer. Then use it to remove all drivers off your machine. then clean install the newest Nvidia drivers.

I reinstalled the drivers, it's still doing the same thing..

I had a problem like that once...uhm my FPs would drop inmense and then go up etc...

In the end it appeared to be an external sof problem, i had  another program running along with sof2 and that caused the problem. So maybe some other program is using your system aswell. It was a net-diagnose program with me...

I hope you find your prob....

SaDiSTiK out. . .

Hi, look at my recent posts.  I've been having the same problem for the last few weeks with my Geforce4 ti 4200.  I did solve the problem with the FPS jumping all over by downloading the latest Nividia drivers.  However, I still get the horrible lag spikes and connection lost icons.

Where did you download the drivers from? I tried downloading the drivers from the site (before I reinstalled my os), but it didn't work. Now I'm using the CD drivers though.

www.nvidia.com
click on download drivers and select your operating system.