Pausing issues and now all servers are outdated?

[s13n1 0]

Hello everyone, my first post and i have some questions.

First of all, i hate to get off to a bad start by making my first post a good old rant, but it has to be done as im losing my F'n mind.

I purchased ARMA CO on Saturday night and after finally getting everything downloaded updated and installed by Monday (yep good old aussie IP's), its now Tuesday and i've only been able to play DayZ twice, and both times were frustrating to say the least.

My first issue is that Arma2 and DayZ have a pausing issue that i cant fix. Every 5-8 seconds the game locks up for about 3-4 seconds and then continues again. This is very much like a latency / lag issue, but it happens offline in ARMA's single player campaign as well. Performance wise, the game runs very smooth in between the pauses, with a nice high FPS. I have tried turning off everything and setting all visuals to low quality and its still no good.

I read some people say a fan pointed towards their PC's internals helps, I have read people say you should defreg your HD or reinstall Windows or underclock your GPU. Seriously, who the hell comes up with these solutions?!

I haven't seen a solution to this issue anywhere, just experienced users telling noobs like myself to try the above fixes. Pfft.

My system specs are: 3gb ram, AMD 64x2 6000+, 2gb 6950, Win7, Fan pointed at internals :-)

Now another issue im having is that since doing the recent update, no servers are running the new version and im unable to play DayZ. There is only one (decent speed) server that is up to date, but its been full for about 8 hours.

I'm can deal with the outdated and full servers, that's life. But this pausing issue is keyboard shatteringly frustrating!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.