Well, it is what I suspected... it IS the webcam. Weird as it may sound, I finally disconnected it and all lag is GONE (except for some negligible lag that might be due to my slow connection). I am in right now with the original graphics settings, and I can run, click, listen to the magi without any problems.
Right now my CPU meter hovers between 10 and 20% use, and I don't know how to monitor framerate?
Anyway, I shall plug in the webcam later and look at the CPU then. We definitely pinpointed the problem, that is for sure... there must be some fight between this new build and Creative webcams
Edit: Ok, I cranked up my graphics settings in the game to
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Graphics.Width 1680
Graphics.Height 1050
Graphics.ColorDepth 32
Graphics.Windowed false
Graphics.AntiAliasAmount 4
Graphics.AnisotropicLevel 4
Graphics.TextureQuality 1
Quality.Level 2
Graphics.Shadow.Enable 1
Graphics.EnablePlanarReflections 1
Graphics.EnableVSync false
Graphics.Shadow.VisibleDistance 0.528301954269
I can still run and move the mouse normally, I'm listening to a lagless Mr Magi now and my CPU is between 14% and 28%, memory 1.41 Gb. That's more like it
Another edit
Gah, I cheered too soon
It was magic for about 10 minutes, but then the lag started again (even without webcam connected), and the CPU jumped to 100% making normal movements once again impossible. So... that's not it though it DID make a difference the first 10 minutes!
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PS I did notice there are 81 processes, but the biggest one (google chrome) is about 54,000K and most of them less than 1000K
PS2 I was idle in MQ while I was typing this, CPU has calmed down again and lag is gone... something that did not happen with the webcam connected. Seems like MQ is slowly eating up the resources while it is active, is that possible?