What could this problem be?just about any game I play I have a problem where the game runs smooth as #### for about 5 seconds and then lags for about 2-3 seconds and get back to being smooth... (I would say FS9 is one of the smoothest ones actually)anyone know what this can be? lack of processor? GPU? RAM? (i got plenty of that) cooling? (water cooled) fragmentation? (I use o&o to defrag)just real annoyingand my specs as of nowAMD XP 3200+2.5gb ramThermaltake watercoolingNividia 7600GT 256mb1680x1050 resSATA HDD (brand new) with external cooling500W Antec PSUI was having this problem before I had the 500W PSU (i had 300) and also didn't have the SATA HDD.Since I know FS9 is not too dependant on the GPU and is a CPU demanding game, I just have an assumption that my GPU is the limiting factor... or could it be the CPU? I know many people running xp 3200+ with very good results on fs9.Any help is appreciated :(

Just a wild guess, could be your Anti-virus (or some other resource hogging app) kicking in sporadicly (if you haven't killed that, and other background running apps)