Hi there. I used to be able to play Freelancer without any issues at all on a 5600 Ultra, except for occasional instances of low FPS when a lot of stuff was happening. Well, I just upgraded to a 6800, and I'm now getting a problem where every few seconds, and only in flight, the screen will freeze for just an instant and then start again. I've noticed it happening most often when I'm in combat, and especially when something explodes in front of me (only where I can see it). I'm getting excellent framerates when this isn't happening. I'm thinking it might be a hardware or driver issue because the only things I've changed are the vid card and drivers.

I've tried several things already... I've changed the priorities of audio codecs, lowered the audio acceleration, and tried every 6x.xx-series Forceware driver I can find, WHQL and beta, and nothing helps.

Has anyone else here had any problems with FL on a 6800-series card, and if so, were you able to solve them?

BTW, here are my system specs...

Athlon XP 3200+
1024MB PC3500 ram
Shuttle AN35N Ultra nforce2 MB (5.10 nvidia drivers)
EVGA 6800 128MB vid card (currently 67.03 drivers, but I've tried many others)
AC97 onboard sound
2x 80GB SATA + 1x 80GB PATA HDD's