Cod4 performance issue - Screen freezes every few seconds

[JamesR404]

Every 4 or 5 seconds my screen freezes for less then a second. I can't figure out if it's the game or my system or what possible could be causing it. I've tried everything I could think of.

Drivers are up to date and graphics set to it's ugliest. It still seems to happen ((

Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
2 GB memory
2 GHz dual core.

 

[pinaplex]

the 8600GTS isn't really considered a gaming card, it's more for multimedia.....

you can try overclocking your CPU, and see if that helps. otherwise, you'll need a better card.

 

[arges86]

turn of AA
try turning down the settings and see if that helps

 

[chompi]

If anyone else has this problem consider scanning for malware, i found myself in the same position with the freezing and what i did to fix it was removing this malware, it's called rootkit.
To remove it i used SafeReturner in it's trail version, worked very well.

The malware is located in ../WINDOWS/system32/Drivers it's file name was str.sys but dont look for that it's random...

Removign this malware solved my problem :]