Odd bug I've been having on and off

[Happy lil Elf]

So something odd has been happening to me for a few months now. Here are some examples:
Invisible base
You'd think there'd be buildings there, and my gun seems to be missing a few parts...
Time for a swim
Now you see the water,
Or not
now you don't.
Missing parts
Me standing there looking at what should be trees with a Vanu in said trees who apparently loaded stretchy ammo. At least the waypoints look normal >_<
Invisible Bridge
Me on a bridge (notice the semi-translucent support pillar in the bottom left) in my Lightning (notice the tracers hitting something near the center? That's me) sighing and taking a screenshot just before hitting ctrl-alt-del and shutting PS down for probably the 12th time that night.

Ok, now then, once the above happens my frames per second drop to usually between .5-2fps and needless to say the game becomes unplayable. I can exit the game and run other programs flawlessly (C&C Generals, Eleite Force 2, IE anything I've experimented with) but if I then try to log back in to PS before restarting my computer, I log in to the same shit. If I do a complete restart however it works fine again, usually for 5-10 minutes back when this was a major problem.

Now for something even more odd. This was something that started not too long after retail release. At first it was very sporadic, might happen once a night or so. It then became more and more common until it was happening about every 5-10 minutes of gameplay. Once it got to that point, I stopped playing for a couple of weeks and amused myself with Gamecube, PS2 (I <3 u Vice City) etc. because god damn is it annoying to have to restart every 10 minutes when you're trying to play a game. I decided to give PS a go again after those couple of weeks and it ran smoothly for 6 hours. Then, recently it's started doing this again although very rarely, just like when it started before. Nothing on my computer has changed since I got my Beta CDs. No RAM changes, no new drivers, no new Direct X, nadda. Needless to say, I'm a bit puzzled. Any ideas?

[dscytherulez]

Ive yet to see stuff missing on PS on my PC. What Direct X u got? What vid card? Try getting new drivers for your vid card and tweaking some in game settings

[Happy lil Elf]

Video Card is a 64 meg GeForce 4 MX440, DirectX is 9.0a (i I'm remembering right) and driver version I don't know off the top of my head

[dscytherulez]

Ok, well first off i suggest upgrading 2 directx 9.0b, because 9.0a was a beta version and somewhat prone to bugs. And yeah see if there is a new driver out for the geforce-->here. Then lastly, go for the ingame vid settings, thats all i can think of now, but good luck man

[TheRagingGerbil]

Happy are you using the Detonator drivers? I recently updated to the Omega drivers and got a 10-20 FPS increase. The quality is a little degraded, but hardly noticeable, and the increase is totally worth it.

http://www.omegacorner.com/index_nvidia.html


*Edit: I installed and used the "Performance" option.