How come my new hardware stills lags?

[Wolfmight]

Could you try disabling sound to make sure that's the problem?

Sure enough, it's the sound that causes the lag. With the sound muted in XP and the volume level set to minimum within the games I had no lags whatsoever. Gunshots fired perfectly the first time, New places and events occurred immediately as they were meant to. I just ordered the SOUND BLASTER|AUDIGY 2 ZS and I'm looking forward to using it. It's reviews are 5 out of 5 on the average .

[Wolfmight]

The game doesn't run with the OnBoard Audio disabled in the Bios and it doesn't help to mute everything either. I think it might just be the CPU. I overclocked it to 1.75ghz and didn't see much of a difference. I'm too scared to bring it up to 1.8 or 2.0.

What I forgot to do was mute all the sound in XP using the "Master Volume" dialog which has all the volume controls for different parts of windows xp. I originally turned down the volume in the game, but apparently it still processes those sounds. There was no lag when the system was set mute on everything though.