Hello Everyone, 

I was trying to track down some new lag issues that I have been experiencing over the last couple of weeks. As you all know I recently upgraded to a new mainboard & Vid (8800 GTS) & Never experienced lag before so I got the impression something was either wrong with a link to our Servers in Virginia or this new tool (QOS Tool) that Nvidia is using for their NFORCE Mainboard Driver for Networking called "FirstPacket".

What appears to be the problem from reading is that Evenbalence has put in place a modification over the last few weeks that makes PB a Service on the local system and potentially causes weird random lag (Stuters) that I never enjoyed before the last PB Update. I am using the very same connection & Network Hardware I had before & I haven't been able to track this down all the way but if anyone has more information please let me know as it's all over EA's Website.

Apparently it was considered a success because of the numbers it put out concerning modified content but I think the issue with lag was overlooked. PB has never ran as a service in the games until the last few weeks.

Let me know if anyone has been able to determine a fix for this.

- Redline