I've noticed here for about the last week anytime I try to play an mmo (not just Istaria) that every 5-10 mins I will get severe system lag that last 2-3 minutes. Ingame lag meters show I drop down to 1-2 fps.
Im used to occasional monsterous lag spikes in some games; when they happen I normally just tab out and browse for a bit or something. This, however, is effecting my entire computer. Browsing the web, or even just trying to play something like Solitare is almost impossible untill the spike passes or I close the game.
As I said this only happens with any mmo I play (Istaria,wow,eq2, ect), when one of them are not active, my computer behaves as normal.
So far I've tried disabling my firewall/virus/adware protections, plugged the computer directly into the modem (versus thru the router), made sure all programs are closed (such as Firefox).
Checking processes nothing unusual pops up, infact the only change that appears is a sudden spike the the mem usage of the game (for istaria it normaly hangs around 90k but jumps up to 130k durring these spikes) and its status switches to Not Responding.
Anyone have any sugestions on what it could be?