[redko]

I've Amd 64 X2 Dual Core 6400 3.36Ghz - 4Gb DDR2 Ram - 280GTX 1Gb - WinXp.

Slowdowns (from 60/58 stable fps with sync on to 22/29 fps with heavy stutterin') happens around north-east coast of Goikul and coast north of Mukero.

I've tried to reduce tga's size as you suggest but that not solve Might be too much surf (damn' BeachBoys!)

Ok for Goikul and Mukero. There is surf indeed there but there is parts of the map where surf is more present... Seems a silly question but imagine your on these 2 places, you plain oriented to north, do you have fps loss when looking at east, west, north ? There is a big reef at north-west of Goikul so maybe is the origin of the problem in this place.

BTW with my 8800gt i can't play at 8AAA, to much fps loss. when there is surf you CG tries to filter surf...and in general CG are bad with surf water textures.