I'm fine on all maps, except that Desert one with the meteors falling from the sky? Thats Death Valley right?
I suspect it might be a driver issue, I upgraded to the latest ones (05/01/2011 IIRC) and the skipping was a lot less.......but still skipping.
Running on a Core i5 @ 3.8Ghz, 8GB Ram similarly overclocked, and a ATi 6870 running at Stock with a slight memory O/C IIRC.
As I say, stable on all other maps?

I tried turning the graphics settings right down, but it still bloody skips on that map, so just whacked them up again.

I dunno.
What effects do you lose dropping to Dx9 64bit?