Pirates of the caribbean,good game,but one thing ruing it all!

[icanhazuber]

First of all, comparing Pirates Online to a game that is not only 3 years older, but has more of everything going in to it, is not a viable comparison. WoW was made for PC's that hold nothing to today's PC's. Also key things to remember, the games are made by completely separate entity's with completely different coding.

You may be able to run WoW, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can run every other game on the market perfectly fine based on that alone.

Your issue can be a number of things.

I would have to suggest making sure that all drivers are up to date, no networking issues or high traffic in your network like downloading while trying to play. Also, you may want to go to a quieter server for better results.

[Arioch]

A lot of the lagging is not actually so much a problem with your PC in itself but an averaging of all the data between all the PC's in a particular location.

My current PC is an aging Gaming Rig I built about 4 years ago and even though it is 4 years old it is quite fast even by todays standards.

I run Dual 7800 GTX video cards in SLI mode 2 gigs of DDR2 ram and 3.0 Ghz dual CPU.

Playing the game on max settings and max resolution is not an issue (can play FEAR and DOOM 3 at max settings as well as Crysis)

However even though I have a relatively fast PC when it comes to privateering all means absolutely nothing. nada I get lagging just as much as everyone else but there are ways to speed things up.

Turn down your video settings. even though my machine can handle the game flawlessly at max settings the lower the settings the less information is SHARED online through the network .....the less information the faster you can play.

also if you plan on crewing with other players be advised that on any crew the whole ship will respond as quickly as the slowest PC onboard. Simply stated you can have a single crew member pop onboard when you have had zero problems and then all of a sudden your playing in slow motion and the ship is suffering from major lagging. Why? the new crew member has a very very slow PC and it is causing everyone around to lag as well.

This is not a guess but something that has been verified time and time again.