WHAT THE FUDGE!

Hey all, i have a really weird issue on COD4. The game itself, runs REALLY nice on my pc (for its age, its 5 years old) but, when i look in certain directions on some levels, the game slows incredibly, (down to 1-2 fps from 50 -80) and i cant work out what is doing it, any help is greatly appeciated, i cant snipe at 2 fps

50-80 fps on a 5 year old machine? what are your specs of your machine and the settings your using on the game?

Unless you have malware or you decided to run a Virus Scan while playing CoD, I don't think you would drop to 1-2 fps from 50-80. I also have to agree with the others about you not getting 50-80 FPS. (Unless you're running all low settings on 800x600, I don't think it's possible with a 5 year old rig)

I'm thinking you may go from 20-30 fps down to 5-10 when the action gets intense or your GPU / CPU can't keep up with the rendering.

Its called draw distance and all computer have a hard time with this like Oblivion.

Its still harder to render a pill of trees, buildings and solders then it is to render a open field with a few tree's

That is still draw distance....

Almost sounds as if the OP is on the outer edge of a map looking into a section with lots of stuff to render....