i eliminated all of the shaders. thats not the problem. i did notice that when i turn the player around away from the building, i get the framerate, but when i turn back around, the issue returns with the slowdown. any other ideas?

Then there has to be something wrong with the building.
Mesh not closed properly, shader or material effect, shadow.

That's what I'd be checking anyways. Remove the building and try the level again, If the framerate is up you know it has to be the problem.

ok, i will try that.

ok. didnt work, still slowdown. what are appropriate settings for clip near and far? maybe thats an issue too. and what size should a level block be. i am messing something up.

Tell us...
What statistics can you tell us about your terrain???
Are you using Terrain LOD and cashing????
Are you creating Model LOD's and if so are you creating ..._0, ..._1..._2 and ..._3 or are you using the LOD creation system in MED...
Same with your sprites... Are you using the _0,_1,_2 and _3 system???
What file size are your models??? And... what are the verticie count???
What type of files are the model skins??? The best that I found for frame rate is .dds files... they are smaller file size and render fast...

Please tell us what you are now doing to maintain Frame Rate and what your original Frame Rate was and is now...

Also... do you know that after you create the packed .wrs folder that your frame rate will increase????

Tell us where you are at and we will see what can be done...

I don't know I'm running out of ideas here. Try running the level on another computer, the default camera clips should be ok, if not keep reducing the clip far. Try a different video size and even turn of shadows.
Recheck your code for repeated loops that don't need to be repeated.

If these don't help you'll have to wait for somebody else for suggestions as I'm all out sorry .

well, i will try everything you suggested. i dont know why when i added the models in the other part of my building, i go slowdown that much. maybe the new models are too hi poly, that will eat up framerate, right?

Either one,some or all the new models may have open meshes!

You are still using A6, right? Why don`t you upgrade to A7 or even A8? I think that there are some heavy performance improvements in the newer engine versions.

What kind of project are you getting ready? Is this a surpise you were working on for a long time or did I just miss to watch earlier screenshots?

He doesn't want to upgrade because he has only gotten used to c-script so he is comfy with it. As far as his project, He has been working on it for some time.