My computer runs smooth as silk, no slowdown anywhere at all. Athlon XP 1800, 512 meg RAM, Geforce 2 MX400. I don't really think it's the game engine itself since it's a modest one, and I have seen it run very smoothly on a 450 Mhz Pentium 2 with a TNT2 (my original PC
. However, it is possible there could be a hiccup somewhere maybe in a hardware component or a driver issue. As for the guy that posted the hardware.com link to that story of AMD processors having problems on some games, since I couldn't find it, what AMD processors exactly? Far as I know, since the Athlon, AMD processors totally trounce Intel's in just about anything and the XP seems even more stable. Not saying that Intel processors are bad, just stating the facts on that for the time being, clock for clock, and dollar per dollar, an AMD processor is better and are very stable. Sadly, I can't say the same about the chipsets on which the AMD processors are housed in though as IMO that's really the weakest area of having an AMD platform.