Second Lag?

ive been noticing a steady decline in the playablilty of the game over the last few months, and each new patch seems to increase the lag.. i've even gone out and bought a brand new system with the lastest video card and ram chips in hopes of getting rid of the horrible lag SL causes.. but to me, its just getting worse and worse, and after chatting with a couple dozen other residents, im finding that im not the only one whos finding the game quickly becoming unplayable.
I have several other newer, more graphically and memory intensive games, but i dont have any problems with any of them anymore.. ive had hudreds of sprites throwing off thousands of effects in some programs without any noticable slowdown, yet simply logging into SL is enough to throw me back into slo-mo.
Even when i first bought my own island, and had nothing more then a few buildings around an empty sandbox the lag was thick and annoying.. and now that there is actually something in my sim, the lag is thicker then molasses, and the crashes seem to happen once every few hours.

basicly, if im going to keep paying the outrageous land fees ive been putting out for my island, i'd like to be be able to use it... Is the lag itself being looked at by LL, or are there too many other things taking up people's time? Is the staff aware of just how bad the lag really is, or is it just being overlooked as the whinings of a few non paying residents? Ive found a distinct lack of caring from any of the linden staff ive talked to about it so far, and have become concerned after hearing most of the people i know voicing similar complaints.

Is there anythig else that can be done from my end? ive already shelled out far more then is sane in my attempts to get things going well, and im starting to wonder if ive been looking in the right areas..

I've moved this to Technical Issues for further discussion--SL Answers isn't the right place.

You may also want to provide more details about your computer specs, and contact support too for further help.

Good luck finding a reply to your question, i havnt seen one yet about this crazy slow SL we are having latly and causes.

Encourage those who can , stop paying for your land, tier down, lets see if they can start giving replies to the customers when its no one left, notice how empty this place is latly?

while you may thing your other newer games are more intense on the system, they arent. You need to learn about how all this stuff works, its ges a bit too complicated to explain it all in posts on a forum. Its very normal for a game like SL to not run as fast as say Quake 4. Part of it is a poor engine i hope they replace sometime, but it also is doing much much more than other games.