480M is not a standard number for RAM unless you are sharing ram with an on main-board graphics adapter...may have an intermittent problem there. Should have some multiple of 128M.
Would use multiple anti-malware scanners to check for virus, spyware, trojans, worms, etc.
Would run a software cleaner program to erase cookies, unnecessary files, temp files, and also a registry key cleaner.
Is any part of the game software on your HD...if so defrag it..if it hasn't been done recently. A page and hive defrager never hurts.
You may also want to run HIPS software if you have it.
Go to your Task manager and check the usage under the performance tab. That should give you an idea if your computer is the problem.
Shut off all your malware scanners while you are playing the game...if you TRUST the site but keep your firewall active and if you have.
The following link should assist you:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/pc/security-tools.html
Best of luck!
Until a few days ago, I was able to play an online game I like that I've been able to play for years on dial up with just normal lag problems. But now instead of the occasionnal lag spikes that happened once every few hours or so, it is happening every 5 seconds or so. On the game there's a zone list to choose and it shows the ping for each one. When I first launch the game, the pings go normally 200-250ms then i wait a few seconds and most of the zones show a 1700-3000ms. Then it just seems to repeat in a pattern going from 200ish back to 2000ish. To clear some things up, it is not my modem, I have tested this with 3 different modems. I've tried a lot in the past few days including tweaking the modem settings, tcp/ip settings and init strings, but nothing seems to make a difference. I'm thinking it has something to do with my computer but I have no idea what it could be. Also, I have no spyware, it isn't that.
I am running Windows XP, V2 Premier Computer,Pentium 4 3.06 GHZ, 480 MB Ram.
I realize the computer isn't impressive but I played this game with much better performance on a much worse computer with the same modem.
Also, not sure how packetloss affects ping but even when my ping is good i seem to get a lot of packetloss. And I never had packetloss problems before.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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