i give up ...
i'm about to give up on this thing. it's been a bit more than a week since getting a new graphics card and tried to play it but i'm getting tired of this. it's just too bad since F.e.a.r. seems like a really good first person shooter. i tried almost everything and even re-installed the game more than twice. i play other games (WarCraft 3 and Dungeon Siege) and they don't have the problems that FEAR has. although those 2 games don't really depend much on the graphics card as much as FEAR does. my specs are as follows:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600 (WinXP Retail), NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE (256 MB), Field Value
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1666 MHz (12.5 x 133) 2000+, FIC AM37 (stock mobo), my PSU is 380W but i'm not sure about the other details, 512 MB of RAM (2 x 256 MB PC2100 ddr sdram), 2 hard drives: seagate 160 GB and WDC 30 GB both ATA-100.
i've also got some in-game screenshots