I need help tuning games on my imac

okay I got a 24" iMac. 3.06C2D with the nvidia 8800GS. 500GB hard drive. came with 2GB of ram but I put in 2 more GBs and now it had 4GB. I wanted to do some gaming so I got a copy of with does vista ultimate 32bit and installed it with boot camp. on the vista experence meater it scores a 5.6 out of 5.9
but all gamesrun like poo through a meat grinder
I have assassians creed and inorder to make it playable I have to turn the settings way Down.
I got dead space and it runs well. it's playable but not nearly as fast as i would like (plus the free rate never clears 30)
last I got tomb raider underworld and that is in no way playable.
the thing that frustrates me is that I have the system requirements to run them all but I can't. does anyone know what I am doing wrong or anything I can do/try to make them decent/playable.
thanks in advance.
gabe

okay im pretty sure that all the driers were installed.
i think the problem is the imac's screen is too big for its brain.
sure it has an nvidia 8800 capable of 1920X1200, but i dont think it can do that wile gaming.
on tomb raider i turned the resolution down from 1920X1200 to 13*X*** (cant remember exactly)
it still runs in full screen with no black boarders but its gone from 13FPS to 23FPS. Much more playable. and shut off some of the fancy effects.
does any one agree? or are their more things i can do to make the game run better

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