There are definately things wrong in that trace you posted. The first 13 hops being in New York screams routing problems, probably due to the damaged telecomm infrastructure.
Your video card is a very very low end card. You need to disable any anti-aliasing, set the "Maximum Texture Size" to 256, disable all but "Bump Mapping" in the Options->Graphics Detail->Advanced panel.
Making sure the system is running clean will help as well.