I just recently picked up Rome: Total War Gold after falling in love with the Total War series while playing Medieval 2. I'm loving Rome but seem to be having issues with the frame rate stuttering especially during battles. My setup is...

AMD Athlon 64+ x2 4200, GeForce 7600 GT, 1 GB RAM, with XP Home SP2.

Medieval 2 runs without a hitch with everything maxed except textures (which is medium) but Rome gives me issues even when I use custom setup (which actually has settings that are overall lower than Rome).

I'm currently downloading the DX Tweaker to see if that works and looking into drivers for my video card. Any other suggestions?