Is it me or is it the servers.

In the last two weeks Ive been having serious lag. Investigations revealed my framerate was dropping to less than 10fps during flying/fights. Hmm never had a problem before, so I am wondering is it me or has something changed significantly that I no longer can run COH effectively? After some modification to my system settings, I am running as such without improvement:
---System information gathered by
CoH
Helper version 0.1.1.7---

DxDiag gathered at June 10, 2009 01:32 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001)
Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506)
System Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
System Model: RK573AA-ABA a1710n
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
4200+ (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 3070MB
.Net Memory Report: 1158MB out of 3069MB available
Page File: 4093MB (2264MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD32 00JS-60PDB0 SCSI Disk Device) 195533MB out
of 298834MB (65%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD32 00JS-60PDB0 SCSI Disk Device) 903MB out of
6408MB (14%) free
J Drive: (Seagate FreeAgentDesktop USB Device) 458869MB out of
476937MB (96%) free
E Drive: (TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652M ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 10
DirectX Diag version: 6.00.6001.18000 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce 8600 GT
Video Memory: 1523 MB
Driver Version: 8.15.0011.8585
Driver Date: 4/30/2009 10:02:00 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHDA.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5548
Driver Date: 1/15/2008 7:19:04 PM

Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High
Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHDA.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5548
Driver Date: 1/15/2008 7:19:04 PM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTek Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: NODUSM3
Motherboard Version: 1.05
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Name: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: HPQOEM - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20061215000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1676x1000
3D Resolution: 1676x1000 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: Yes
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: 4x
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: High Quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: Medium

World Texture Level: Medium
Character Texture Level: Medium
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.889
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Gamma Correction: 0.875
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 755554 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 18.20090422.5T
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

ideas?

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Hardware-wise, your system is fine. Post a HijackThis report up so we can take a look at the software side of things.

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Install SP2 for Vista. It's known to resolve a few issues with nVidia graphics and could help your problems some.

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