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I've found that moving my page file off of my boot drive and making the page file minimum and maximum sizes equal to about 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM on my system seems to smooth out the glitches when I'm playing games.

Increasing the refresh rate will reduce flickering, but that's not the same as the short pauses during play that are so annoying.  And, yes, it's possible to damage a monitor by increasing the refresh rate if the monitor doesn't support that rate.

I'm pretty sure the little pauses are caused by disk access... the drive that your page file resides on may be nearly full or fragmented.  If it's possible you might consider creating a partition on your hard drive just for the page file, about 1.5 to 2 times the size of the amount of physical memory on your system.  Make the new partition the same type as your boot partition (i.e., if the boot partition is NTFS, the pagefile partition should also be NTFS), then move the page file.  It takes a reboot to finish moving it.  When you've checked to be sure it's been moved, you can delete pagefile.sys from the boot drive... it's just taking up a whole lot of space.

I'm running Windows 2000 and can give details of how to do it with this OS, not sure about XP etc.

OS Name   Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Service Pack 4 Build 2195

System Manufacturer   MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
System Model   KM400-8235
System Type   X86-based PC
Processor   x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1666 Mhz
Total Physical Memory   982,512 KB
Available Physical Memory   725,344 KB
Total Virtual Memory   3,350,244 KB
Available Virtual Memory   2,878,760 KB

Sound Card (onboard)   Vinyl AC'97

Video Adapter   VisionTek Radeon 9250 PCI

Game Controller Philips SGC2910 Wireless (USB)

This is my first post; I'm a newbie, and joined because after years of missing NFSIII (couldn't get it to run on Win2000) I'm finally racing again.  I bought the Philiips Wireless controller to use with Vice City.  My daughter was looking through my old CD's and remembered how much I liked playing NFSIII back when my Microsoft Sidewinder controllers worked with Windows 98.  She suggested I try playing it again, and to my surprise, it works perfectly, even better than when I used the Sidewinder controller and 98 (it used to lock up occasionally).

Now that it's working, I'd like to try my hand at editing tracks or creating new tracks... but that's a different subject.  Thanks for the site, it's awesome!