You are trying to play COD4 with an 8500gt and 1gb on vista? Wrong choice buddy, time to upgrade!simardbrad

Upgrade my RAM or my video card? Cuz when I got it the computer guy said that card will run almost any game for a few years.

Haven't re-installed. Installed patch v1.6. Just one monitor. I'll go out and get another GB of ram, hopefully that will work. Thanks alot.

I know there have been posts about lag with cod4 but nobody has seemed to have problems from the very beginning.

It installed fine and everything is dandy until I get to the start menu. I move the mouse in real life and it lags taking about 2-3 seconds to move it on the screen. Same is with the movements and mouse with in-game. I can't play it like that.

I have:

Vista Basic

AMD Athlon Processor 3500+

1GB RAM

160GB but only about 36.3GB left becuz of vista installation

Nvidia 8500 256MB video card

and a 500watt power supply.

So I pass the minimum and I think recommeneded requirements. Anybody have any solutions or suggestions?

Thanks alot.