http://techspot.com/tweaks/sof2

For the moment it's more so single player oriented, though cvars should apply ok to multiplayer as well.
Troubleshooting & other performance tips too of course for all the options with some card specific stuff

This is sweet... check it out =)

This looks like a good site, I'll let you know what improvements I get.

SOF2 was running slow on default settings.

The guide is pretty good and  if a selected low enough settings I can get a good frame rate.

The graphics are crappy once you are down at that level though. It becomes more difficult to make out the enemy in the distance unless you are using a sniper rifle.

May be I just need a more powerful machine... in time maybe...

the only two definate bugs I have found are on the save game (don't save within one minute of another game) and the EAX sound (enable it you will crash)

Over clocking (Iwasn't when I started playing this game but I am now) dosn't cause any more problems if you are not over doing it (lots of soak testing), and has helped with the games perfomance but not a lot. much faster graphics card geforce Ti 4400 should do it.

I can average 40 to 50fps if i set the graphics low enough...
but you do loose a whole load from the game if you do, it's not as fun or involving.

yes jedi knight does generally run faster (60 to 70fps) but this game does use a modified game engine (more complicated). Even jedi knight slows down a lot on certain levels (the swamp (20fps).

I'll just have to get used to it running quite slow for now at higher (decent) settings.

This game does help you to learn a lot more about computers.

System specs

athlon 1.33 clocked to 1.47 cooler masterHCC-002 heat sink
max temp 55 C (heavy testing) 48 C when idle
Asus mother board A7A266 FSB@147 PCI@37
512mb ddr
Nvida geforce 2mx 440 64mb ddr 247MHz cpu 163MHz ram
+blue ord heat sink & fan
windows ME
Norton antivirus (disabled when playing)

It explained the settings but mostly I got bombarded with ads that ad muncher could turn off but only by not allowing the page to load.  Sneaky!  If you follow the guide then any 64 meg card would (pretty much) allow full settings.  Did anybody over there ever really play this game... they write like they didn't.  Okay... go try it.  Folks, what we need is a timedemo.  Nothing else will really matter.  We can try the timedemo and then let sites like Anand Tech or Hard OCP go to work as they usually do.  Without a viable benchmark tool all we are going to get is "it runs like a slideshow" or "I average 80fps in the Colombian levels" type statements.  They are meaningless.  I want to compare my system to a test given by someone I trust in the industry!!  Nothing else will convince me that my rig is flawed or that somebody else is really getting the performance they claim  (or lack thereof).

The page has more ads per square inch than any I have ever seen.  The guide suggests that you can play the game with certain features turned on having only a mid-range card: you can't!!!

If you would have read much in this forum instead of coming here to advertise, you would have seen the screenshots I  posted running the game at 1280 x 1024 with my o/c pent4.  I have also gotten the game to run on a system as slow as a pent3 800... so, I know of what I speak.  I have also been running around the net since the first introduction of Mosaic.... so, spare me the education on ad clicking.  Sorry that it impacts you directly, but when enough of these overcharging types go under, we can get back to some realistic expectations about the net.   What is going on now is some type of forced ad coding that will not allow pages to load unless you read the ads... result?  People will not go to your page.  You will go under quicker!!  People will simply not put up with that much eye pollution.