this IS what exactly is happening on me!!
setting runs perfectly on SP could be disastrous on MP
and i think i know how it is triggered: the first map on whtever mp game would work perfectly fine, but then after loading the next map, i keep getting strange stuttering and during firefights my fps drops significantly. the situation gets worse during the 3rd, 4th 5th... maps. my game would stutter so much that even quitting the game takes a very long time.
yes restarting the game 'fixes' the issue but i dun think one should restart the game everytime a new map is loaded... this is frustrating...
i suspect there's some kind of memory leak or data on the previous maps not being cleared
i have the afterburner monitoring the temps. absolutely no overheat issues. its about game code or connectivity to servers, i guess
Exactly the same thing happens to me when running Extreme at 1440x990
2.8ghz Q6600
4GB RAM
460GTX 1GB
In singleplayer i run extreme at 45+fps butter smooth to the eyes. Multiplayer gets worse as matches and so on go on.