I know but better than a 7200 just trying to save the guy some cash, worth a try to fix it before shedding a load of coin.4.5 years old will be AM2 is AM3+ now with DDR3 ram SSD 6GB speed his board wont have 6GB SATA3 connection.

The HHD is actually good being a 10K RPM and not a massive size, yes SSD is very good have corsair SSD 120GB , but you will need to replace mobo Ram psu graphics cards and cpu.

Yeah i would inclined to agree with stone this does sound like a bottle neck going on here with hdd. What OS you using, do you have antivirus running or any firewalls whilst playing if so disable them and test. Check your services make sure things like auto updates are not running i.e Adobe Java windows update punkbuster Also check your paging file and make sure enough is allocated, run a defrag.

Now changing your tactic to wanting sympathy wont work, just chill and wait for things to settle you really are making yourself look stupid I had early access but only managed to get in yesterday and had to wait for customer service for 6 days no dought they was dealing will idiotic requests like yours. We all have to wait not like your the only one, Its a new game it will be around for quite sometime its not closing next week. Sends chillout pill enjoy.