Siege Lag, Pls need help

[Daveybaby]

Cados, I think your machine is just getting on a bit (as is mine).
You have the same CPU and memory as me, (and probably similar memory speeds). Mine does lag a bit in siege battles (still a teeny bit with settings turned to low).
Point is, my system's over 3 years old now and its getting pretty creaky on current games. This is, unfortunately, to be expected.

But i think your main problem is your graphics card. Its 2 generations out of date, and the 9600 wasnt top of the range even then. Even though its probably got enough texture memory IIRC everything on the card ran at a lower clock speed than the 9800 and you had fewer pipelines to play with. I've got an X800pro and that struggles a bit, and thats (roughly, vaguely) 4 times as powerful as the 9600.

Presumably your system is AGP. You can pick up AGP versions of the ATI X1950pro for around £100, which is by far the most powerful AGP card out there. Seriously considering doing that myself, in lieu of a complete system upgrade. Alternatively you could spend £50 and get an ATI1650 or Nvidia 7600 series, and still have something far more powerful than what youve got now.

But basically, if youre trying to run games on a system 3 years older than the game, youre going to start to have problems.