Issues with hesitation in games

[imported_Kudos]

I have been having horrid issues with my computer, and I need help to fix it.
Playing Doom3 online is impossible. I cannot even move. The lag is horrific
I zone into someones game and freeze...try to move foward and I get bounced back to my
origonal zone-in spot
Playing Guild Wars and Everquest 2, I get bad 'hesitation' while moving. It seems like it takes
too long whenever movement is going on. for example, if I hit the right arrow key the game
will hesistate (sometimes very badly). Also when auto running foward the game seems to
slightly skip or hesitate (but constantly). This is an ongoing thing
clearing the cache does nothing, deleating all temp files does nothing,
I defragged after installation of the games and it did not help
Changing the video settings to the lowest settings does not help.

Any thoughts?!

I am currently using this setup:

Dell 8400 w/XP Home
3.0Ghz Pentium 4 w/800FSB
1GIG DDR2 Ram @ 533mhz
GeForce 6600GT 128MB PCIe (500Mhz bus, 1000Mhz memory speed)
360Gig HD setup as Raid 0 (180Gig x2)
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet (onboard)

Terayon Cable Modem
Optonline Cable Internet connection

I am running at 6 - 8,000 kbps steadily, through the router.
It's the same speed if I remove the router and connect directly to my computer.

I have currently uninstalled and reinstalled the video drivers, uninstalled and installed beta video drivers with no change

I changed out the cable modem which boosted my kbps from 6k-8k, to 8-9k

I have of course set ALL the settings of the games to lowest possible, as well as setting the video card to the best performance settings.

I do not know what type of MOBO is installed in the computer, and I cannot change any of the BIOS settings, although I may be able to turn off HyperThreading.


I have also recently been using FRAPS to find my FPS, and FPS will be 20+ and jumpy (with balanced settings on, not minimal) and drop down to 4-6FPS while turning, or any action

 

[amdskip]

Have you tried another computer with the same game on that internet connection? I would try to first narrow it down to your ISP or your computer. Your computer is definately powerful enough though.

 

[daveybrat]

Sounds like your Ping is pretty bad. Sounds like ISP problems to me too. Only way to narrow it down is to try single player games that don't use the internet.
If you play Doom3 single player game, is it jerky there? If it's smooth there, then you've got internet problems with your ISP.

Remember, high download and upload speeds mean nothing if your Ping and latency is poor.

 

[imported_Kudos]

if I play it single player it's smooth, if it's an ISP problem, how would I resolve it?