ok, so i finally got it installed and im able to join a server, patches are done, took off shinny water, back ground sound, tryied the windowed mode fegured out a lot of my questions that i have been posting. well suffice to say i have learned and done quite a bit. found the cpu affinity and looked at everything, updated the graphics driver and so forth from the driver site. well its still choppy, so i dont know what more i can do.