Well, to answer the first question, no. The only other program I have running is my virusscan, which I have turned off to see if it helped; no effect. I've got an eMachines T2875 with a Athlon 2800+ 2.09 GHz processor, a gig of RAM, and a GeForce 6200 256 AGP. The thing is, when I first installed the game, it ran incredibly smoothly. Then, all of a sudden, it just got real stuttery. I haven't changed anything, including the graphics settings, at all.