Network Lag or PC Lag? Which one do I have?

[AGM-114]

Hello,
Just trying to figure out something about the game. I run a fairly old system.

P4 2.6 HT Intel Chip 865 Shuttle
Nvidia 5700LE
1GB OCZ PC3200
SATA Raptor 36GB 10K
SoundBlaster 5.1
Saitek Keyboard
Good quality high speed connection 3mb down 384kb up (wired not wireless).
Spyware all removed, very few background services running, anti-virus in standby mode when gaming, defraged weekly, small system tweeks for performence based on this forum but nothing major like CAS, PCI timing, OC, etc....

Compared to some other people, the game runs very well for me. My only question is about timing. Sometimes I notice that I will die even before seeing who killed me. Now, I know you might think, maybe you just didn't see the person who killed you noob. Fair enough. However, I notice sometimes that I will be alone on a street and all of a sudden it will say death via M1A2. Now, a 65 ton main battle tank is fairly easy to see even at distance. I will notice a second or two after the death that a tank comes around the corner. This even happens on servers with ping times in the 20 msec range so I'm thinking its not network lag but I'm not sure. Is my pc just to slow to interpret the info the server is sending me? Are people getting a half second on me which is a life time in this game? Just looking for some opinions.

Thanks

[Sniper_13]

irs prob your video card cause it sucks. you also might have outdated video drivers

[AGM-114]

Drivers are latest but the "sucks" is probably true as well.

[NoSoup4You]

5700 = trash. Most likely you "lag" is an FPS drop.

However this can also be caused by sound. Yes sound. Fool around with in-game settings to see if that helps it.

[AGM-114]

Whats the commad line FPS command? Also, will it allow FPS to show while playing like some games?

Thanks

[coldmist]

~ (to get console)
renderer.drawfps 1

[AGM-114]

Cool, thanks. I'm almost afraid of what its going to show me!