I am a newbie to LFS. I have read the threads and have turned off shadow effects, reset my bios to default so that it doesn't overclock, and turned off sync rate, but still I am only getting 25 fps max. When I am doing chicane training it drops to 9 fps.

My rig is a P4 2.4Gig hyper threading CPU
Saphire 9600 Pro Atlantis AGP 128 MB GPU
P4P800 Deluxe MOBO
1 Gig Ram
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Is there anything else I can do to beef up the frame rate?

Make sure you don't turn on "simple track".

Simple track sounds like it would be cheaper / faster but in fact with modern cards it makes it *much* slower, because it avoids hardware vertex shading - which is a great speed up. Simple track is only good with older cards like GeForce 2 which couldn't do HVS.

Other than that, I have no idea. Did you have a bad frame rate when you had a fresh install?

Also I noticed today that my framerate would drop incredibly if I turned the "Sound Lag" all the way down to 0.10. (in OPTIONS > MISC I think?). I had to put it back to 0.20, and all was ok.

Might check that option possibly.