first off, yes all drivers are up to date.
here are my specs:
ATI 7870 2gb video card
6GB RAM
2.67ghz CPU

I bought the new video card recently and tried out the benchmark at Maximum and got a score of 8301.

I had a problem where I had to reinstall W7. NOW when I run the benchmark I get around 4000 something. HALF of what I was getting. The game will seriously lag even if there's nothing going on around me.

I don't know what happened. I was running the game on Max when I got my new video card and it gave me nothing less than 47FPS wherever I was at. it was very smooth.

I've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Running the same settings as before and it is still happening. That's why I check it with the benchmark.

SO...somewhere something is going on that is causing my game to do this. I'm not running anything in the background either except XFire.

I'm going to be updraging my RAM to 12gb pretty soon; but I don't know if that will fix the problem. Especially since with what I have NOW the game was running flawlessly.

Is there maybe something going on with my BIOS or the RAM?

Also: I had to reinstall W7 because I bought some RAM and didn't know that you can't mix and match different RAM, so I had to have a tech person completely re-do my system. (I took out the new RAM and put the ones back in the order they were)

I'm going crazy trying to figure this out!


PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks in advance