why am i lagging?

[BattleCruiser]

I have a AMD athlon 2700+ , 1 gig of PC2700 ram, and i recently purchashed a new 128MB Nvidia Geforce 5700 ultra by leadtek, it all works properly; but for some reason i still get lag in some areas, even with low display settings. i have a good cable connection. I have talked with other ppl who have very similar systems to mine, and they get great FPS with high display settings, yet i still get low FPS with low display settings. What is wrong? please replay

[Electrofreak]

Do you have the latest video card and chipset drivers, have you disc defragmented recently, do you have any anti-virus software running in the background, have you run a check for spyware and viruses, have you shut down any non-essential processes before running PS, and have you used msconfig to remove everything you don't need from the system startup?

If all of those are "yes" then try some of the tweaks here: http://psforums.station.sony.com/ps/...essage.id=5936

If nothing else works post your DxDiag as indicated here, and maybe your problem will make its self apparent: http://psforums.station.sony.com/ps/...&message.id=11

[BattleCruiser]

I have all of that, except i do have norton anti virus professional 2004; which is always on auto run. The rest of what you said is fine.

[StrangeFellow]

just shut it down when you run PS, Mcaffee did the same thing to me when i bought the game

[BattleCruiser]

i tried turning it off when i played, and i still got the lag

[Daleon]

What kind of hard drive you got?

The 5700 is never gonna handle large battles very well. And random spikes of lag now and then are just life in an mmo.

Might wanna try some bench's on your system to see how the performance really is.