Hello everyone,
I'm afraid I must go on hiatus from playing samp. It appears that my video card is dying. Out of nowhere, my fps began lowering, and I was getting very harsh lag spikes while playing (most notably when turning left/right in a car). I performed a clean install of the game, I updated my video drivers, I rolled back my video drivers, I tried installing performance-increasing mods, I tried system restore to a point that I know worked, and I re-formatted my computer. I'm also having this issue (though less) on other games. The problem seems to get worse when the car/avatar is travelling fast, and forcing the GPU to load quicker. I haven't installed the card in someone else's computer, so I can't say 100% for certain that it's the card. But, I sure as hell can't afford a new one right now. I intend to play GTA V when it comes out, so I'll start saving for a new computer. I got three years out of this AMD $1500 junk heap. Time to move to Intel.
I'll still be active on the forums, since I don't have any games to play anymore.