Tibia/Slow CPU/Takes many resources

[Jawsh]

I play a game known as Tibia. It has gotten popular throughout the 8 or so years it has been out. It is locatable at www.tibia.com

Now for my problem, when I play the game, it takes up 90-100% of my resources. It slows down my comp greatly like when I try to open IE while playing. It can take 2 minutes for it to finally open. yet my friends that play have no trouble with it and play normally while using other programs.

I recently installed more RAM, hoping that would solve the problem, but it likes to use that up too. I now have 256+512MB RAM. I use SP2 on a Windows XP Home edition with HP Pavilion 553x model computer. I constantly review updates and install them by need, and also clean spyware and adware regularly.

Is there any way to lower the resource usage? Or somehow make it faster?

[Jawsh]

oh, also, I already checked the Tibia faqs, but it seems to list nothing on the subject

[igual]

try runing it in win98 compatability mode
right click on the icon >properties>compatability then select win 98 mode
also have you made sure you have no malware or viruses etc on your pc ?

[Jawsh]

Yes, i scan for malware regularly :) Yes this seems to help some. Is 98 the fastest? I am running XP Home, so i dont know if that helps :P