Do us a favor here Poopie. Post his PC stats and his Config for gaming. It could be a driver issue. But then it could be something with his video card settings and *edited* too. (I turned Vsynch off and gained 40FPS and lost a bit of spiking issues)
Also, I find that I spike alot when my daily Anti-Virus is running. Do a….start/run/taskmgr or cntrl-alt-delete and look at the CPU usage as well as running processes, his *edited* might be bogged down from too much *edited* running at one time. ALSO. if you find *edited* that don’t need to run do a start/run/msconfig and select Startup Tab and uncheck all the boxes with the processes that boot up that you don’t want to. that’ll speed things up quite a bit. Did for all the other comps I’ve worked on.