New PC & laggy game

[elliott9]

I just put together a new system and bought the new Hitman: Blood Money game. However when I play the game it is extremely laggy, to the point were when an enemy fires a shotgun it takes him 30 seconds to pump it for the next shot (just the next shot, im not talking about reloding). I even overclocked my CPU and my video card and while that showed improvement it still is extremely laggy. I have installed the latest ATI catalyst and DirectX9.0c (I think, whichever one came with the game). Below are my system specs and the system requirements for the game. If anyone can give me some ideas to improve gameplay I would appreciate it very much.

System Specs:
-ASUS A8V-MX Socket 939 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
-MD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor (overclocked to 2.1 GHz)
- pqi TURBO 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory
-RAID 0: Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (x2)
-Broadway Com Corp P4OKIA600-Black ATX 600W Power Supply 115/230 V FCC, CE, cUL, UL, CSA
-ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB (overclocked by I forget how much, I would have to go home and check)

Hitman: Blood Money Min System Reqs
- IBM PC or 100% compatible
- Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/XP (admin rights required)
- Pentium III 800 or Athlon equivalent
- 128 Mb RAM (Windows 98SE)
- 256 Mb RAM (Windows 2000/XP)
- 100% DirectX 8.1 compatible 32Mb 3D Accelerated Card
- Windows -compatible sound card (100% DirectX 8.1 compatible)
- Quad-speed (4x) CD-ROM drive
- 2Gb free disk space
- DirectX 8.1 compatible mouse and keyboard


This is a brand new installation in windows

 

[Anoobis]

What game quality settings and resolutions are you playing at? Although HM:BM isn't too taxing, you may be stressing that 9800Pro.