OK,

let me clarify : when I set up ISBoxer, I set the FPS cap on the slaves at 20, and the cap on the main at 60.

also, to SuperNova... I reset my power settings to High Performance, even using the regedit code given on Microsoft's website, to ensure the changes took.

I am completely baffled at what else to do at this point. I suppose I could dig out one of my crusy old PCs, install WoW (12 hrs of patches...UGH), and run ISBoxer thru multiple PCs, but UGH.

sorry for the rant, this is just getting extremely frustrating.