Were you ever able to see servers? Maybe your firewall is blocking the serverlist, or does your ISP have a bad connection. Try turning off your firewall, if you can see servers, you have to reconfigure your firewall. If you still can't see servers, you could use game-monitor to find servers.
Hehehe a week ago I was joking we might be able to play MTA:SA:DM on my LANparty tomorrow. And look what I got
Tomorrow wil be even a better day. I'm installing it right now.
You mention a graphics card. Are you sure you got internet lag (high pings) or is your game just running slow?
Graphics Card is good enoegh to play the game, you might try lowering the game settings for smoother play.
The card needs "fixing"? Try the latest drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
Who is still using modem?
I think most of players got broadband connection, as least in europe.
This is very good time for gallup!
Besides that, it allso kills the bandwith and people with bandwith limitations each month still exist.
I like the rocky tunnel part, it is more skill dependant. But it looks like some air jumps are just too big. People with lower frame rate's won't manage to make them and on busy servers players occasionally collide, loosing speed won't help them making the jumps.
This will result into respawning, and even more colliding and frustrations.