well guys thank you so much for your help and special thanks to unluckyone who really solved my problem which disapeared so far so i' m really happy about this, i totaly lost hope for 2 months... so the solutions as it seems are either the virtual memory or the omega driver (specialy turning fast write off) now even if i set textures to very high, that sudden drop in fps doesn' t happen , in fact it happens but it recovers instantly and i guess that' s what should be with 128 mb and far cry now is in its fullest glory and fully playable with most of the times very high fps, only those little freezes of (0.5s) that i mentioned above (when textures are very high) are present now and i' m not worried since it' s normal...

ps for killer: 9800 pro atlantis made by sapphire is a very good card, in fact it' s the best 9800 pro for its overclock ability and sapphire is a very respectable brand now.

thank you all again

quezcatol i have just one question, let me tell you that your card behave like a 6800 gt , i' ve seen you pics about fear and the one that really strikes me is when you showed up that benchmark of fear , just by compraison mine with 800 * 600 NO AA, with textures medium

mine: (800*600 no AA, everything full except texture medium)

20% below 25 fps
47% between 25fps and 40 fps
33% above 40 fps

quezcatol as he claimed (1024*768, 2AA, fullest)

11% below 25 fps
36% between 25fps and 40 fps
53% over 40 fps

this is truly amazing with these setting you pushed your card to, it leaves my card to dust, never ever a 256 card could have such a difference over a 128, anyone can confirm this please??? man if it' s so then all these websites and that tomhardware guy should resign ?? man your card is a hybrid of some sort, it doesn' t look like a 9800 pro at all

Actually in the newer games the 256MB cards really do help. Back when the 256MB 9800 pro cards were recently released the extra 128MB didn' t make any difference because the games didn' t make use of the memory. Now textures are getting larger and more detailed so I' m not suprised that a 256MB 9800 pro is performing better than a 128MB 9800 pro in games like FEAR and COD2. However, if you played UT2004 and compared the 2 cards you' d see little difference because the game doesn' t need that much memory.

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1817/fear6zd.jpg

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http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/5430/dieee0bz.jpg

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8817/frstaspelrundan7na.jpg

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Abasoufiane so you cant have this kind of graphic at all?
running at 40+ fps?
Mayby you have a lot of virus?
scan pc,sometimes when you been on wrong sites you can get a lot of virus.
Or mayby its like unluckyone said,cause i really know nothing about pc' s and he sound as he does though

" EDIT" btw i finished cod2+fear run smooth all levels expect one in fear,but in gamespots gameguide they said turn of all details,this map is a killer to any pc.
But other then that i was very supriced that they run as smooth as possible :P
Thats why i wanted oblivion,cause i guess my pc can atleast handle it

i think you should buy a new grafik card, what about a 7800 with 512mo, if not you have to play the first half life. you´ll can sure set it as high as you want with your 9800 pro .

Yes,a good solution is to ask people to buy the best and most expensive things.
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There is a reason why he doesnt have it...nor majority of gamers.