Game lag issues.

[Willz]

A8V Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 1GHz
2 Gig - Corsair - D400 (4 x 512)
GeForce 6800GT OC 256MB

Here is problem, when I play Battlefield Vietnam, I get these 2 - 3 second momentary lag issues. I'll be flying along and all of a sudden my screen locks and when it comes to, I'm about to crash/burn/die. It can happen twice a minute sometimes it's once every 4 or 5 minutes. The game continues on even though I'm locked up. It is very annoying.

Nobody else is having this same issue at the place where I play. My ping is below 40 so no way should the connection be a problem.

I have shut down running applications, including anti-virus. I shut off the firewall stuff. I hit ctrl/alt/del and shut down running non-critical applications. No other programs are running in the background, that I can see, that would cause me problems.

I have updated the drivers for the video card.

Why is this happening? Could it be the bios? I just bought this board and built this computer a month ago.

It's driving me nutzoid. Help please!

Thanks.

Will

[dannyboy27]

how are your cpu & gpu temps?

[Willz]

No problem with temps. In fact, it seems that after the game has been running for an hour or so, the lag dips become fewer.

I've also noticed that they are more likely to happen when I am flying vs. running around with a gun killing noobs.

Will

[dannyboy27]

It sounds like there's a delay while the game's loading textures or sounds. I don't know if this helps at all?

edit: page is a bit slow to load, but be patient

[nodnod]

It might even be punkbuster related. Does it happen beyong the first map or so?
That used to happen to me in BF2 but for me it was not having enough ram I used to only have 512mb and upgrading to a gig fixed it. I can see that you have 2 gbs so this is a moot point.