need video card help with computer

[BansheeBillyBob]

pretty much ne time u are gonna play a game on the computer with the exception of like yahoo pool or some shit like that u should always restart...it will run so much better. i actually miss bf1942 i think it was SO much better then BF2 but oh well.

[Minkia38]

I have an ECS P4S5A/DX+

and a Northwood Pent 4 - 2.53

w/ bus speed of 533

1025 Kingman DDr pc3200 ram - 2.5 CAS

[iceman]

i think your specs are fine. it sounds like a power shortage. I went through three brand new cards because they werent getting enough from my power supply. really made me mad because I lost money on all of them and they were like 300 bucks each. how many watts is your power supply? if its over 500 id say just keep restarting. some times games are just shitty. some high end games use less resources and run great on even crappy video cards but some run like shit even on high end systems. bf2 is an example apparently.