Here is the 'revised' version of this list with a couple of things added.

I have done a bunch of research and find that these things that I am about to list are the best ways to get tribes2 
to run well especially on an nvidia based graphics card. If you are a 3DFX owner - think about spending $80 on a 
geforce2 MX. It will give you a MAJOR increase in tribes2 gameplay and for ALL of your games. It is also the cheapest 
method of doing so. Now to list the things that will give you at least 15 fps more in the game. Most computers will 
get more fps out of this.

1. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your video card and directx 8a installed. I have found the detonator 6.50 
drivers work better than the newest 12.00 drivers because of slow down in other games.
2. Make sure Tribes 2 is patched to the latest version. After this your need to go to your start menu and pull up the 
'find files or folders' menu. Type in to find this "*.dso" without the quotes in the drive you installed tribes2 on. 
Select all these files and DELETE them. The game will recompile them with the NEW patch info once you play again. Old 
files are not re-written because they are already there, and have OLD patch info in them witch causes problems. TRUST ME. 
There is an article about this at www.tribes2review.com.
3. Download the NVIDIA Reg Patch for ALL NVIDIA cards from www.tweakfiles.com on their main page. Install this by clickin 
on the one that your operating system is. Go to www.nvmax.com and download and install the beta 2 version of nvmax 
(always have this running).
4. Don't change any of the settings in NVMax except Turn OFF antialiasing if it is on and use geforce accelerated lines 
and fast pixel copying in the opengl menus. Also turn ON sideband addressing in one of the nvmax menus. Most of these 
settings will be carried over from the Reg Patch you installed so LEAVE most of them.
5. Load the game up now after you have done all this and set the graphics settings in your game. You can use whatever 
you want but the 3 things that make the MOST difference are View Distance, Terrain Texture Detail and using Full Sky or 
Skybox depending on your CPU, so play around. ALL other settings can be turned on full including 32bit textures and 32bit 
display. This will leave the game looking very good and still give you good performance.
6. If you have 128MB of ram or less, you need to use the 'nicest' texture compression in the graphics option in the game 
menu. There is not much of a noticable difference in quality and big performance increase. If your hard drive is fast and 
you know it, you can use 'none' it will just make a bigger swap file and will read more from your hard drive.
7. Choose resolution, by now - 1024x768x32bit will work ALOT faster than it did before so use either this or 
800x600x32bit depending on the card and the cpu. Go higher if the game plays too easily at 1024x768x32bit.

You will get ALOT more performance from this game by doing these things especially with an nvidia based card. 
I am guessing most peoples FPS will jump 15-30 more some less, some more. Copy this by selecting all of it and using 
<ctrl> C and paste it into your notepad. Then save it and print it out. This will be a regular post now so try it and 
post your results with it. If you are happy with these things I have researched and they work, keep bumping up this 
message with results so more people can find out. Thanks, and enjoy!

ttyl KaKa