Ok, here they r:
Intel Core i7 CPU 930 @2.80GHz 2.79GHz
6GB RMA
ATI Radeon 5700
Win7 64bit

Is that enough information?

What settings are you running the game at?
Worse case scenario drop everything to low and work up from there till you have a good balance of appearance and performance.

with everything set to low and all the options unchecked, I get 25 when flying above sea, below 20 when approaching a bomber, highest was 30 when doing a fly by. i had a freeze while getting close to a bomber.
i guess i'll keep trying. thanks man!

no offense but as a novice with computers (only speculating based on your previous posts), you should start reading about how to "tweak" or "optimize" your computer for gaming in general...i wish i had some good basic sites i could give you off hand at the moment but im afraid that i cant think of any right now....your specs look decent so tweaking your computer would be your next step and something that would be good for you to learn as it would help your computer skills and knowledge...so somethings you might want to search for is "optimize ____insert your operating system here___ for gaming"
or
"___your Operating system here___ gaming tweaks"

and im sure threads exist for CLOD specific tweaks and advice as well...

good luck, and dont be discouraged by the amount of research that might be involved, but the final product should be well worth it

So far post patch I'm enjoying the game a lot. Just played on ATAG server and flew with Snapper, Biggles, and a few others. Cockpits look great again with the return of the reflections, the ground looks great (I think the colour has been slightly retinted back to closer to what beta 1 of this patch was). And I had a great flight taking down three 109s (okay, I shot down two and the third crashed into the ground on his own while chasing me at low speed/alt, but it counts - and it was a two on one fight where they both went down and I had busted armoured glass in front of me too!)

Each official patch just makes the game better for me. There's no reason not to put aside your hangups about the game (if you can run it acceptably) and just concentrate on having fun now. Especially if you like to fly online.