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I got this with Battlefield 1942. Here's some of the steps I took:
1. Defrag. A defragged hard drive is a happier drive, that can pre-fetch stuff faster, making for less lag. Also, once you've defragged, re create your swap file on the HD, and set it for 1.2 times the size of ram. What you want to do is setup the swap file so it uses a contiguous portion of the HD, rather than being spread/grown all over.
Run Defrag more than once. I ran it 6 times before I got it down to a well defragged HD.
2. Shut off unnecessary services/apps: If you're on XP, run task manager, take a look at what you're running. If you don't need it, you don't need it. Spooler service? Nice, but unneccessary for games. Right click & end process. One warning, make sure you know what your killing. The same thing goes for all those nice helper icons in the system tray...they eat RAM that Planetside could be using.
3. Make sure idiot roomate doesn't have uploads set to unlimited on his kazaa connection. Nuff Said.
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