Graphical lag in Newcastle

[McNeo]

Dont even start on the graphics card discussions...or do I have to point out that the HD2900XT, despite having 320 stream processors, has more or less the same performance as the 8800 GTS which has 96, but the latter incurs less of a hit to the frame rate when jacking up the Antialiasing and Anisotrophic filtering.

On topic now, my older computer, armed with a FX 5700 (from the days I knew nothing about hardware....) and a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4, has real problems playing Freelancer, even if I turn off skype (which takes ~40% of my CPU. I get graphical lag in every system, maybe even the empty ones too, when playing on that pile of junk.

I think we need new minimum and recommended system requirements....

such as:

Minimum:

Intel Pentium D 805 or AMD Althlon X2 3800+
Radeon X series card or Nvidia 6600GT or higher

Recommended:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 or AMD Athlon X 5200+
Radeon X1 series card or Nvidia 7600 GT

Maybe a bit on the conservative side, but its a start.
I just dont think computers that were meant to be able to handle this game can anymore. I used to play vanilla FL on my old computer, and it worked with no lag. But disco has added in so much good stuff, that the personal computers can no longer keep up. I think its got to the point where we need new system requirements...