Originally Posted by Redd_Wiggler

my specs:

AMD athlon 64 x2 Dual core 4200+ 2.21 GHz
2 GB ram
nvidia geforce 8600 GT

we have almost the same system (yours is just a bit faster in fact) and it runs smooth at butter for me

my settings:
res: 1024x768x32
75 hz refresh rate (make sure your monitor refresh rate, and game refresh rate are the same)
quality: high
view distance: 2000m (i start to get some render lag if this is up too high)

i reccomend a hard disk de-frag (someone posted on another topic that this greatly increased his performance), and shutting down all un-nescissary back ground tasks. if you dont know what i mean then do this:

ctrl+alt+del
processes tab then organize by user name. you can then highlight and hit "end process" for most of the things under your user name (owner is default i think). dont end explorer.exe or taskmgr.exe. or anything under local service, system, or network service.

i can usually leave most tasks running, but i like to close qttask.exe (quick time) and a couple others. if you dont know what a task is, you can type its name (including the ".exe") into google and get an answer to weather it needs to be running or not. i reccomend turning off one or two at a time, and see if performance increases.

dont worry if you shut down something that needs to run, the worst thing that will happen is you will get an error message and your comp will shut dow. when you re-start, everything you shut down will start up again.

hope this helps

It might not have solved Karma's problem but it certainly helped me.

Many thanks