Don't depress me MJ
I'm not that low spec am I
AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual core 4200+
4gb 800Mhz dual channel RAM
8800GT 1gb graphics card
Then I assume you have absolutely all the graphics setting to the max?? Because I have a
much less powerfull machine (AMD Sempron 2600+ 1 gb Ram 1'61 GHz, 8600GT) but settings on medium/low values and I didn't have any problems at all (fps going around 50 at the beginning, with low pics of 25-30 maybe).
In Spa you get a HUGE difference on fps between medium and low circuit detail. And you don't miss anything by setting it low, you see more than you need to