Poor performance

[shaka999]

Hello everyone,

My son and I have recently started playing pirates and are enjoying the game. The one problem we are having is that Pirates runs really poorly on one of our machines. The machine in question is a Gateway DX4200-09 Desktop, Phenom X4 9100e 64-bit Quad-Core Processor with at Nvidia 8800GT card.

Using Fraps I see about 12 FPS which is horrible. I'm wondering what the bottleneck here is. I'm guessing the 8800GT is more than up to running pirates so that leaves the CPU. Is the 1.8Ghz Phenom just too slow?

I've tried using OpenGL and DirectX and both seem to get about the same FPS.

Thanks for any help!