Need tips on improving performance

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Hey guys, here is my system:

P4 3.1Ghz

2gig ram cas 2.5

ATI Radeon 1650 512mb

SB Audigy 2

80gig SATA HDD (Yeah I know it's small)

Win XP Home

My system is clean, no backround programs, cleaned registry, latest drivers, defragged, etc etc.

Seems that playing a game on a medium map, with 4 AI players causes stress on my system on medium/low settings. I think a major problem is, is that I play at a 1650x1050 resolution, due to the fact I have a 22' widescreen display. When a battle commences, major slowdown, and zooming in and out also causes annoying game hampering lag.

There are lots of options for resolutions, and it seems I cant find a decent one that looks okay, and performs well. It seems a couple of the lower resolutions actually decreased my performance! So what resolution should I play on that would increase performance, and still look nice on a 22inch?

Any other performance tips?

Thanks for reading, and thanks for any help in advance.

p.s. Sorry about the spelling, it's 5am and I'm exhausted

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I had similar specs to you although an x800 with a 22 inch widescreen. I found that my system just couldn't power that monitor properly and I built a new computer.

Having said that I had a lot of success player this game on the old computer with these settings.

Ran the game at 1440x900 (which is actually my desktop resolution is, 1650 is just too darn small for my old eyes).

Turn off all AA and AF. AA even at x2 will really kill your framerates at this high resolution with that older card.

In game turn off elevators (it's the planetary traffic), dust, asteroids and debris. All those things, especially elevators and dust really cause slow downs. Oh, turn off Bloom.

I then ran most settings at high and it kept frame rates above 25 most of the time but it would still slow way down in big battles but it was still very playable.

But when I tried Oblivion for the first time with this new monitor I had to upgrade as it just wouldn't run at all.

So for around $1200 I got a top of line system, Dual Core E6850 3.0 ghz and a top of the line Sapphire ATI HD3870 Toxic (factory overclocked). Needless to say my frames in Oblivion with everything turned up max rarely drops below 60 and Sins, well, I don't think I've seen any slow downs yet with everything cranked up to max.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Appreciate your response, I'll try disabling the dust, etc.