Arg This is CRAZY!!!!!

[Darcy]

This game is driving me nuts! I've been reinstalling it over and over, trying to get it to work again. Read my post "Well I screwed up again" for details. It seems every time I reinstall it will work a little better, but it still sucks!  It's just really slow, chugging away like I'm running it on 98MB RAM, I HAVE 512!!! It was working great before I uninstalled. I must have done something last time to get it to work.  I tried defraging, reintalling new video drivers, reinstalling over and over! NOTHING!.
This has to have happened to someone else.
Please Help Me!!!
Darcy

[Maccers]

Have you read the tweaks sticky topic?

[bobc1]

I went back 3 pages to find your earlier post "Well I screwed up again" and I ain't going back any further. I'm on 56K dialup and this forum is slow anyway.

EDIT:  I found your "Well I screwed up again" thread. I must be going blind. If ya try everything that was recommended in that thread, and what I recommend below and it doesn't help.... you may want to really consider formatting and clean installing XP. But if everything else in your computer is working 100%, I guess it's possible that your CFS3 disk is bad. But try to install it on a friends computer and see how it goes. All CDs get a little warm in the CD drive. It's hot laser light reading the disk.

You need to post your system specs.

My specs are:

Alienware Intel D850GB mobo w/P4_1.3GHz 400MHz FSB CPU upgraded to a P4_2.0(A) with the PowerLeap PL-P4/N adapter and then finally to the P4_2.6GHz. I'm tired of smearing thermal grease!
Sony 21" Multiscan E540/B
WinXP Pro_SP-1
512MBs PC-800 RDRAM
Radeon 9700 Pro w/Catalyst 3.4 Driver Suite
DirectX_9.0
40GB 7200RPM IBM Deskstar
Creative Soundblaster Live! Value (yeah, I know!)
Klipsch ProMedia 4.1 speakers
U.S. Robotics 56K Fax PCI (ain't offered broadband here yet)
HOTAS Cougar joystick/throttle
Latest 3DMark2001 SE = 14,230

If your specs are anywhere near mine or better you shouldn't have any problems whatsoever simming CFS3.

If you're running an older video card like anything slower than an nVidia Ti4200 or some MMX version or an ATI 9500 or slower with a CPU (processor) less than a P4_2.0 or there abouts you're gonna have stuttering in your game. But depending on what you have under the hood will let us know if your computer is running up to par.