Are you kidding? That card is more than enough for FS. I have a GF 8800 GT 512mb and my fps is smooth excluding the situations I mentioned earlier. Even in really intense battles my fps doesn't drop so drastically that it's easy to notice.

I never said it wasn't capable of running FS, all I'm saying is that at the resolution he's quoting he's pushing it pretty hard.

Oh, and an 8800GT is a better card than the 9500, which is based around the 8600 chipset.

One thing I would consider is removing some of that ram. Your using a 32 bit OS, which can only 'see' a maximum of around 3.5 Gb. Can you tell me what configuration your ram is in? ie 6x1gb sticks, 2x2gb and 2x 1gb sticks etc. You see, some motherboards only like particular ram stick configurations and that could be contributing to your problems.

If you go to system information take a look at the physical ram properties and see how much is registering, then open up the case and remove the sticks that aren't needed. Make sure your mobo can handle 2gb sticks if thats what your using, then fit only 4gb of ram in total in matched slots.

Your running with a good core pc but a low end card.

Are you kidding? That card is more than enough for FS. I have a GF 8800 GT 512mb and my fps is smooth excluding the situations I mentioned earlier. Even in really intense battles my fps doesn't drop so drastically that it's easy to notice.

Just out of interest, try running fraps to see what sort of frame rate your getting.

it shoudnt with my specs right?

As for your resolution "lag", what do you mean? Lag suggests increased latency, do you mean you have an FPS drop?

guys anser my last post please ^^

and my original bf2142 is version 1.5...

i think the problem is i'm just not lucky...

But seriously, try what Twigs said, it usually works.

Ps, 6gb ram on a 32 bit OS?? WHY?

Have you patched BF2142 to 1.5?  If Yes, go into your BF2142 install folder, go to your "Mods" folder and delete all files with a name similar to "FSBuild xxxx.zip"  Once you have done this, open your launcher, go to File -> Preferences and set "Version" to "1000", hit apply then okay, then update again.

If you HAVEN'T patched BF2142 to 1.5, you can get a link to the patch HERE. Download and install that, then I'd recomend re-installing First Strike before attempting to cnnect to a server.