FPS slowdown on death animations and dust2

[[FAT]Mike]

PC is P4 3.0C, 1GB PC3200, Radeon 9800Pro with pretty recent drive update.

I get okay fps during play, usually 40-70, but when Im spectating people and they die my machine chokes for a second as the death animation happens. Same deal when I die.

My other issue is on dust2, if I look certain directions down the route that leads to bombsite A (from either side), my machine has a heartattack. I get about 3 fps until I can look away.

Any thoughts?

 

[Unregistered (V)]

I am having the same issue with Long A

I did not have this problem with my system until after a recent upgrade:

Before:
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
2 x 512MB Matched OCZ 3200 DDR
160GB Maxtor SATA
Visiontek GeForce4 Ti4600 (128MB)

Upgraded video card:
BFGTech GeForce 6800 OC (128MB)

It was really bad, and then I got the latest drivers, and it got a bit better.. the weird part is that I only have this problem on Dust2, and no other level. (the stutter down long A) It also gets bad if I fly around in spec mode, and go under the level or something by accident.

 

[alcander]

...pretty recent driver? Get the MOST recent.

 

[Freyar]

I don't usually update drivers unless there is an issue with a game (if it's running fine, then there isn't a reason to change it right?)

 

[alcander]

True, but he is obviously having a problem.