Poor performance

[JeffreyHookgrin]

With that cpu and graphics card you should be getting a frame rate at least in the 20's. You did not say how much memory you have. That is the only other hardware bottle neck to frame rate. If you have 2 or less gb, you definately need more, 3 or 4 gb would be better.

You should always do the scan and clean thing, use anti malware programs like Spybot Search and Destroy to find junk running in the back ground. If you use Norton antivirus/firewall, I would recomend getting rid of it and using any of the free ones out there, they run much leaner.

One more thing you can do to get an instant improvement (never had an AMD so I would have to assume it is the same): You have a multicore cpu, multicores usually run at a slower speed per core, because you get more performance from having more than one. But pirates does not support multicore, so everything is trying to run on the one primary core, that cuts the frame rate way down. If you're lucky, your cpu/os set up will alow you to open up the other cores to pirates, here is how:

After you log on to pirates, right click on the task bar (assumes you use windows) and select task manager. Select the processes tab. Right click pirates_online.exe. If you see an entry called Set Affinity, or something like that, click it. If the selector that opens allows you to place check marks along other cpu cores, check them all.

If your cpu and os allow you to activate the other cores this way, the os will spread pirate accross one of the other cores and you will see a definate boost in performance.

good luck