[Arkan]

What are your specs? I had to get "modded" drivers for my Radeon 9500 video card that made it equivalent to a 9700. That alone made a world of a difference. The game was quite playable and only lagged for a sec during a hellish battle with alot of bad guys. Keep tweaking and testing it using 3D Mark 03 or something equivalent to that to see if you're getting any improvements after every tweak.

Funny someone should mention not playing either game....i have HL2 installed and only played about 2 hrs worth....i just don't care to log onto steam everytime i want to play. Also, i think the game sucks. Not worth the trouble. Hey, anyone wanna buy HL2 from me?