09-05-2004 04:46
Second Life seems to be taking way more of something than I have. I lag very badly but am not sure why. Heres my system specs, maybe someone could point me to something I should upgrade.

Athlon XP (barton core 400fsb) 2500+ overclocked to 3200+
512 mb PC3200 DDR Ram overclocked a bit (forgot what its at)
7200 rpm ata100 30 gig Maxtor HD
GeForce4 4200 128mb overclocked (speeds nearing a 4800)
1.5 mbit cable connection (through a wireless router 11mbs)

I think those are the specs that should be needed to diagnose what I need to speed up the game. A computer like this shouldnt be brought to its knees...or so I thought. I get around 1-5 fps and if im lucky or just standing there around 10. I watch my bandwidth bar fly up and down like crazy so I was thinking there might be some sort of problem there...but it really should effect my fps, just the ping (which is usually less than 100).

Any help would be appreciated!

Cooling isnt an issue, I just installed a water cool system to keep the temp down on all the overclocked stuff and it runs at a stable 115-120*F during full load. (thats CPU temp, system temp is usually 90*F).