[Bilgepump]

So I was helping my wife install POTC on her laptop so we can play together.

(Sail the high seas! Blow stuff up! Fun for the whole family!)

It was having a really hard time running the game. Even with all the options set to "low", she was still getting lots of lag anytime she moved.

I noticed that the hard drive was thrashing around whenever it started lagging, so I figured a memory upgrade would help (she had 512M).

One trip to Fry's later, and she now has 1.2G of memory, should be plenty. But the lag was still there.

Then I saw the "memory conservation" option was set to "Aggressive". I changed that to "Default", and suddenly the lag was much much better.

It's not completely gone, but now it only does it when first entering a town. Now she can fire cannons and have them actually hit what she's aiming at.

I did the same thing on my kid's machine, which still only has 512M, and the lag went away there, too.

A faster CPU and a better graphics card would help more, but this helped a LOT, so I thought I'd pass it on.