performance problem after patch

[wolfspider]

I have a problem with a severe drop in fps after the download of the Friday(02/06) patch. the game has been running smoothly on my Dell Dimension 8300 (specs: P4 2.8; 512MB RAM; 128 MB video card). I have even been running it with antivirus & firewall programs enabled with no problem. Now, I can barely play the game with the amount of stuttering and pausing. I received a responce in the general forum requesting me to enable animation culling since it was turned off after the patch. However, after doing this, there was no improvement. I know since this is a on-line game, I can't disable the patch. I hope someone can come up with some solutions. I also forgot to mention that I had added no new software, programs, or peripherals prior to the problem arising after the patch installation.

Thanks