The 9600 is looking deeply promising at the minute....

Anyway, shadows and draw distances I usually find cause the most lag issues in games.
Also, check your character LOD distance with character draw distance, and make sure LOD is equal or lower. Im not sure about performance impact, but it sure doesn't make sense to have LOD higher.

Oh, and have more RAM.

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Don't mean to sound like an idiot, but when it comes to all this I am...... "LOD" what is that??

sorry for all the questions,but I have no idea what Im doing.

But when I see that for the mainboard it still says the old graphics card does that mean it is still running off of that card and not the new one???

actually I just downloaded Cpu-z and my processor is 4200+ not 3800+ if that makes any difference at all.

And also when I had the new video card installed it looks like they didn't take the old one out, because on the mainboard it says Chipset NVIDIA 6150 LE Southbridge says NVIDIA nforce 410/430 MCP

totally confused.....

So what is the easiest and cheapest thing to do, throw another GB of ram in there? I can't exactly go out and buy another video card since I just put this one in and can't return it now. Is the main problem just the ram, or is it my processor?

I am trying to run Age of Conan and already updated my video card to a NVidia GeForce 8500 GT , and its still running slow, not even slow, its like a slide show with all the settings as low as they go. Here is my system, i am hoping I just need more ram, but let me know what you think.

AMD's Athlon 64 X2 3800+ dual-core processor

250 GB hard drive

1 GB installed RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 1 GB DDR2