Battlefield 2, used to run fast now very sluggish

[fordfan485]

I dunno whats going on with my computer but I used to be able to get 85-90 FPS while playing BF2 with all the video settings maxed out on high and in 1280x1024, now for some reason the game likes to play around 40 and will slug to 20fps. Did a defrag didnt help at all , have tried numerous optimization guides. Using forcware 77.77 drivers

Here is my computers specs:
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

BFG Tech BFGR78256GTXOC Geforce 7800GTX 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card

SEASONIC S12-500 ATX12V 500W Power Supply

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor

OCZ EL Platinum Revision 2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC

[Nav]

i read somewhere on the net to play at highest settings bf2 needs 2gb of ram. i run a evga 7800gtx with 2gb ocz performance and play at max. but it stutters too only when theres alot of people on the screen. make sure you have the latest drivers too.

[fordfan485]

The thing is I used to be able to play it on high settings with no problems at all, and after the past few weeks performance has declined.

Anyways I tried installing the 78.01 drivers, and when it rebooted, after the windows xp splash screen everything looked like i was trying to watch scrambled cable or something. so i reboot into save mode, do a system restore, reboot and now the damn computer says insert system disk to boot or somecrap. god i hate computers

[Turbo91Bird]

I had 1 gig of ram and a x850xt PE and I could run it on high settings but it would stutter sometimes. I put 2 gigs of ram in and I never had it happen again. Its a huge resource hog, but for those online graphics, what do u expect?

[blue60007]

Have you done virus scans, etc?

[fordfan485]

yea i feel pretty dumb now, I had it on 8xS antialaising, moved it to 2xQ and its back to normal