[little ninja]

Fair enough by the same token, I can't believe you either. Working with a system I've maticulously built and made sure parts were very compatible with eachother, I can play Besiege with full effects and have no lag problems. Well until recently but I stupidly did got on an installing spree so I'm sure a program I installed is the culprit of my degraded performance.
It becomes very painfully clear to me when I run this game on 3 systems of different quality and have seen how Besiege works on them. Another out-of-date PC I have in it's 12th year that I built needs me to strip out all extra graphical stuff because it can't handle it. If your system has problems I would question it's component and their compatibility along with potential software that's on the system.

If that was the case id be dealing with this problem on a regular basis. Instead its only at certain times. Such as being in a crowded area. D.A during pops, Besieged. Its not like im experiencing this kind of stuff running thru V.D or anything.

If it was my computer some of my programs would have slow problems, But i can run a bunch of programs an easily go between them without troubles.

As for programs, FFXI was the last thing i installed on my system. So the only thing now is windows updates, FFXi updates, an virus updates. I have way to much mem, i have way to much H.D an im running at 3.8ghz. When i get home i can check the Vid card. but thats no crappy thing either.

I still think S.E servers are one of the main causes of it. Not to mention it has already been stated they S.E kept back its games limitations because it was ment for the PS2 systems. Thus a large 56k user base.

Its labeled a gaming machine by industry standards. Since everything in it was at one time the same stuff alienware put in there gaming machines. Even to make sure everything was up an running correctly i took it to a local computer shop. they even complimented me on the hardware, an the fact everything ran the way it was suppose to. Then they offered me a job. But thats the one thing i was afraid of, the software conflicting with the hardware.