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Ah, finally - someone who has my problem.

Well, I'm not sure how much help this'll be for you, but I did a little test.

I switched back to my original monitor and ran FEAR. What's strange, is that it still ran terribly.

So, I'm pretty sure now that although the monitor may have triggered it, it's not the monitor that's causing the problem. Another weird thing is how A. Reinstalling the drivers worked for you, and resetting hardware acceleration worked briefly for me.

It's a long shot, but have you overclocked anything? If you haven't, I'll rule that out, but right now I'm trying to find any and all abnormalities that might be causing a problem for F.E.A.R.

I'll just say that FEAR runs fine on my PC, which is a AMD 3700+ overclocked just like yours, with a 7800GTX which is similar to yours, and a 24 inch widescreen. The game runs fine on max settings with full AF, as long as I keep AA and soft shadows off. You could try putting in another stick of RAM. RAM really helps in FEAR, i've found that 1.5 GB helps the room-to-room stuttering, though you may need 2GB if you have a messy computer with lots of stuff in the background. I never have anything running other than video and sound drivers and some IM programs so 1.5 is enough for me.

Wait a sec, you overclocked a 3700+ to 3.3GHz????? Holy crap!

That really sucks. My slow as hell 754 Sempron 2500 (1.4 stock, OC @ 2.1GHz) with 1.28GB of ram and a Radeon 9800 Pro runs it faster! I sure hope you can figure out what happened because um... Thats terrible :P.

I'll just say that FEAR runs fine on my PC, which is a AMD 3700+ overclocked just like yours, with a 7800GTX which is similar to yours, and a 24 inch widescreen. The game runs fine on max settings with full AF, as long as I keep AA and soft shadows off. You could try putting in another stick of RAM. RAM really helps in FEAR, i've found that 1.5 GB helps the room-to-room stuttering, though you may need 2GB if you have a messy computer with lots of stuff in the background. I never have anything running other than video and sound drivers and some IM programs so 1.5 is enough for me.

Wait a sec, you overclocked a 3700+ to 3.3GHz????? Holy crap!

Thing is, the PC could run it fine before. In the stress test, 100% was over 40 frames per second before, and the only change was the monitor. Not to mention the time it ran fine earlier. It's strange.

Edit: Oh, about the 3700+ - Sorry about that, I'll edit my original post, it's only at 2.31GHz. Must have been a typo at first, and then I just wasn't paying attention to what I was saying! Baaaad. Bonus points to the man paying attention!

I'm guessing you did the hack for it in the shared documents folder.

mine works flawlessly at 1680x1050.
weird...

try backing up your saves and reinstall fear. is their anything else running in the background that wasnt before?

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No extra background processes, and tried re-installing quite a few times.

The weird thing is, it worked temporarily when I restored my driver defaults of performance settings on my nVidia drivers. That's a clue, but unfortunately not really enough.

so your running everything at application preference in the nV panel, and in game are maxed out... is soft shadows turned on?

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Nope. The weird thing, is that even if I tone the settings down much lower than usual, it never gets much past being between 12 and 16 frames per second.

it would point at 6xAA being forced... i wonder what the hell is going on. how are 3dmark scores?

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