Need help in making Ikaruga run smoother

[geometrics]

now, i switched from Chankast over to nulldc because i experienced too many problems with chankast.

 

nulldc seems to be more friendly, giving a variety of options to help customize your graphical and audio settings..

 

now, i'm playing ikaruga, and everythings fine, but by the second level the sound begins to get choppy, and i get a bit of a slow down graphically here and there.

 

what might you recommend setting wise to utilize the best performance?

 

here are my computer specs:

 

geforce 6800 gt 256 mb agp 8x

windows xp

AMD 64 processor 3000+

2.01 ghz, 512 ddr ram

 

 

any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.

[Agozer]

A faster procressor. There really isn't much else to it. Performance can fluctuate heavily depending on the game and the level you are playing.