You're joking right?? Sure RAM always helps, but I'd be tweaking that Vid Card. I DON'T mean overclocking it either. Flying with Mips and transitions off make the game look really bad. Shouldn't your 9700 be kicking the crap outta my GeForce 3??
I'm serious here! if that's all the better the ATI is my 9600 XT's going back.