How are other demanding multiplayer games? Could the cause be your network hardware, software, or service?

It really interupts the immersion factor to see your character thrown around like a rag doll. I do not understand why this was ever considered desirable -for meat to be affected like cloth. In lieu of actually being blown apart, there should be a strong bias towards simply throwing the character to the ground. Otherwise, stock death animations would be preferable.

With Totalize, I have experienced the same distortion of land as in your images of the field. Also, similar with tanks as yours of the soldier by the sandbags. The latter may have happend on another map too. My graphics card is related to yours: HD3650 AGP (passive heat sink) and it is mildly overclocked. So, I did consider the temperature when it happened but it has never happened with plain BF2 nor other mods. FH2 is indeed the most demanding but I am not sure that is the cause.

I do use headphones. Have you heard this problem?

If I had more details I would post in Bug Reporting but then again I am not sure if it is strictly an FH2 problem or not... Sometimes (perhaps on certain maps), it seems that all deaths are heard as being relatively close by when they are not (constant stream of grunts and ughs). Most recently an entire round of The Battle For Sfakia suffered this and I recall it being the same before. Plain BF2 has never been like this but since the 1.50 patch, I have heard the same on one or two of the "new" maps  (previously expansions) at certain times. The audio hardware is an X-Fi DSP with the latest drivers including OpenAL (replacing default wrapper). Settings are Ultra High and of course Game mode and CMSS-3D with filters on Auto.

So, is anyone else experiencing this, what is the cause, and is there a solution?