im playing gta3 on a very low end system. the game is playable but very laggy. i have looked through all the settings of the game disabling anything i dont need but still no luck. Is there a program that could help me speed up my preformance to play gta3 at a decent framrate?

GTA 3 is well known for being laggy no matter what. The system requirements for the game are actually incredibly low for what they really should be. Some things that you might try is getting better hardware. Your software really isn't that much of an issue. What are your processor speed, memory and video card specs? John Lawrence

like i said, its a really low end system with 500mhz, 64mb sdr ram, pentium 2, and some kind of intel graphic card. is there any programs to give me a preformance boost?

There are no programs that I know of; but I would really suggest that you have at least 128mb memory and a 32mb video card. As for programs, I would just try to free up some resources while your playing the game. Try to keep as few programs as possible running in the background while you're playing the game. I guess one program you could try is Iarsn TaskInfo 2003. It's basically an advanced task manager for win98, that shows which processes are running and how much cpu/memory they're taking up. John Lawrence

64mb RAM is way too little these days, & since you have onboard graphics, it stills it's memory from the system RAM. If, for example, you have the graphics set to use 8mb RAM, that means you only have 56mb left for the rest of your system to use. How many icons do you have next to the clock? Make sure you need what's there. Personally, I have 3...volume, anti-v, hardware monitor...everything else has been removed. You don't need things like Nero, AOL, AOL messenger, Yahoo messenger, etc loading at startup. Have you run MSCONFIG & stopped unnecessary programs from loading into memory? Do you regularly run a spyware remover such as Adaware SE, or Spybot - Search & Destroy v1.3? Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

ooops... "it stills it's memory from the system RAM" STEALS, not stills Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

You are luckey you have got the game running at all on that machine. IF your mobo has an AGP port, try and get a video card. Some, any video card is better than none at all. ANYTHING. Even a 16MB. AND up your ram to ATLEAST 128, ideally more. if your board allows it over clock your CPU. You might get 50-100MHz extra out of it if you cool it well. (jam is the expert on this one, ask him!) ELSE: simply buy a new machine if you have the cash. ELSE: pick some other game that you can play on your current hardware. :D Good Luck and Happy Computing, Kailas Shastry, Athlon 2000XP + MSI KT266VM DDR 256MB