Quote Originally Posted by Residualshade View Post
While playing my game will stutter. im watching my CPU usage and im at 90-95% constantly. so obviously my cpu is bottlenecking. are their any setting i can adjust to help alleviate this problem? If not is their any possible CPUs i could upgarde for my motherboard? from personal research it appears i already have the best processor my board can handle.

Motherboard: Gigabyte K8N SLI PRO

-=-=-=-=-=-=- System Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
Number of Processors Logical Core Count 1 Physical Core Count 1
According to Gigabyte is seems the best CPU your motherboard K8N Pro-SLI can use would be a dual core AMD Athlon 64 FX60, which would be a marked improvement on the one you currently have.
Now, if this would be cost effective or even possible to find, is something all together different.

As to what you can adjust to get better performance, well, first off, the minimum requirements is for a 2 GHz dual core processor, so you are well below that currently!
There really is not anything you can do to circumvent that, but disable shadows, dust effect, extended drawing and physics ingame and hope for the best.