I upgraded from 1 Gig of RAM to 2 Gigs of RAM because of this game, and it didn't doo any noticable good. I have monitored my memory usage while in game and it will go higher than one Gig, so having 2 Gigs instead of one helps somewhat, I guess, but the terrible lags are still there, so the real solution is yet to be found.
As far as I can tell (although I may be wrong) it's just poor ineficient programming, because EVERYONE seems to have noticable lags at one point or another in the game, no matter what their computer setup is... and it's only under certain circumstances... at other times the game is lightning fast, wich means that the no care was taken to balance out the computer load throughout the playing experience (did I make myself clear?).
On the other hand, the fact that your DVD drive is working overtime is probably due to the Starforce copy protection, since memory swapping (if any) is done to the HARD DISC, not the DVD.
It's still a very good game though... just kinda of pushed out to market too early.
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