High FSP but Choppy Movement and Performance [LOTRO]

[Preacher]

Hello everyone.

I was wondering if some of you technical gurus would be so kind as to lend a hand?

I have a very annoying problem when playing LOTRO. I know this game screams problems when it comes to graphics and performance - but it's just so [censored] fun to play

First off, I'm using XP on a T61p, 2gb of RAM, 2.4ghz / Nvidia Quadro FX 570 type.

The thing is, in all resolutions except the absolutely lowest ones, I experience a very choppy performance, no matter what "graphics settings" I choose within the game. The fact that there is almost no difference in choppiness between "Very High" graphic settings and "Low" tells me that this is no ordinary problem. I'm an experienced gamer and I know when I'm suffering from low FPS, choppiness related to bad ping etc., this bugger isn't it!

My framerate is around 20-30 at highest resolution, but even with resolution lowered and frames going up to 40-60 - the same choppiness occurs.

Even when I use the lowest resolutions and movement becomes smoother, I can feel the choppiness "underneath", if you know what I mean, just evened out by less strain on the system.

Now, so far I've fiddled around with the graphics settings within the game, disabling and enabling almost everything. The only thing that seems to have a noticeable difference to this choppiness is if I turn Anti Aliasing on, which makes the choppiness worse to a considerable degree.

Besides fiddling around within the graphic settings within LOTRO, I've done the following:

1. Uninstalled the LENOVO display drivers, using both 3dGURU Driver Sweeper and CCcleaner as mentioned in this post: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=209796

2. Installed the laptop2go driver mentioned in the above post with the modified INF to try out the semi-GeForce setting - no change.

3. Installed both the nvidia_wxp_omega_16693_7z.exe and nvidia_omega_xp2k_216921.exe - but to no avail.

That's what I've tried so far. Now, regarding what programs I've installed that *possibly* (though I strongly doubt it) might be having some adverse effect: Diskeeper, RMClock, ESET Antivirus and ZoneAlarm. Can´t think of anything else.
It seems my computer doesn't go above 70 degrees Celcius (from Europe - Iceland) so I doubt this is an overheating issue.

I truly hope someone has either experienced this and found a solution, or is just that [censored] smart!

Thanks a lot, for firstly reading this, secondly trying to help

Regards,
Preacher

[Preacher]

OMG!

Ifigured it out - and the solution was SO AMAZINGLY SIMPLE AND IDIOTIC .. but something people should have in mind!

I don't know why I thought of it - but I unchecked the Enhance pointer precicion in mouse settings ... and everything got fixed!?!

I admit, I'm using a logitech revolution without the logitech drivers installed, but who would have known this could be the cause???

People, be ware .. computers are an odd thing.

[Preacher]

Lol, it's not solved. The thing is it only worked when in windowed mode. I decided to install SetPoint, see if this was an issue because of a missing driver for the hardware. When I did that, the choppiness returned. I tried every mouse, acceleration setting within SetPoint, (os controlled, setpoint controlled acceleration), nothing. I then tried uninstalling SetPoint - only to find that now it's always choppy, with or without enhance pointer precision option off.

So .. I'm back to square one Does ANYONE have a clue what this might be?