Why is the game so laggy for me?

[Plunderin Mom]

Yep, laggy for me, too, even on our good gaming PC. I have to restart every couple of hours or it gets so bad I can't even run a straight line through town. It's even worse on the other PC and impossible to gun on that one. Like someone previously mentioned, it doesnt even matter whether you're in an ocean thats quiet, with few or no other players. Its still lags.

I didnt have the problems with lag on test that I do on open, and a friend of mine can do little more than play poker, now, whereas he played all aspects of the game with little trouble on test. Not sure what the POTC people can do, and I dont know anything that relates to computers technically, but if we didnt have this much lag on test, then there must be something they can do, and its not just a graphics issue, I wouldnt think.