Unreal Tournanment 3 - Where is the problem?

For the most part, Unreal Tournament 3 plays decent on my rig. But every like 5 seconds my system will lag. I'm not talking about on line, I mean off line play. I have all the settings set to low. I don't know where the bottleneck is coming from. Originally I though it might be my Hard drive, but I put it at 50% full and defrag. it. It helped alot but didn't get rid of the problem. Here is my system:

2.0 Dual Core Opteron 2.0 Ghrtz

7600 Nvidia GT

1 GIG OCZ ram DDR 3200

Seagate SATA 2 HD 300 GIG

Could it still be the Hard drive? Or is it somewhere else?

For the most part, Unreal Tournament 3 plays decent on my rig. But every like 5 seconds my system will lag. I'm not talking about on line, I mean off line play. I have all the settings set to low. I don't know where the bottleneck is coming from. Originally I though it might be my Hard drive, but I put it at 50% full and defrag. it. It helped alot but didn't get rid of the problem. Here is my system:

2.0 Dual Core Opteron 2.0 Ghrtz

7600 Nvidia GT

1 GIG OCZ ram DDR 3200

Seagate SATA 2 HD 300 GIG

Could it still be the Hard drive? Or is it somewhere else?

dman777dman777

1GB of ram = lag and 7600GT not the best of cards is it?

For the most part, Unreal Tournament 3 plays decent on my rig. But every like 5 seconds my system will lag. I'm not talking about on line, I mean off line play. I have all the settings set to low. I don't know where the bottleneck is coming from. Originally I though it might be my Hard drive, but I put it at 50% full and defrag. it. It helped alot but didn't get rid of the problem. Here is my system:

2.0 Dual Core Opteron 2.0 Ghrtz

7600 Nvidia GT

1 GIG OCZ ram DDR 3200

Seagate SATA 2 HD 300 GIG

Could it still be the Hard drive? Or is it somewhere else?

dman777dman777

1GB of ram = lag and 7600GT not the best of cards is it? Don't go above 1024x 768.

lol, guys Ut3 is NOT that demanding of a game. I played it well at 1024(or higher, cant remember) with some medium settings. I only have 1gb of ram, an x800xl, and a similar processor.

If your offline try reducing the number of bots and see if that helps some.