I think your right about the cpu speed being the culprit. I was greatly affected with my 533 mhz amd chip. There was a problem before 109 though. When I first started AH I had no problems at all, I was very happy with the game performance, then came the server problem with the T1 line or whatever, that was hit one, Then ver 109 came out, that was the killer. I can still play but alot of the fun has gone out of it for me, I still go on squad nights but I dont play the ma anymore. I'm hoping all these problems can be fixed but I dont have alot of faith that patch 2 will solve all the issues affecting gameplay here. Bottom line is, The single most important aspect of mmog's is playability. I have played alot of online games and I have seen lag and instability ruin alot of good games, I'm hoping it doesn't happen to AH.