Since the Equinox update, I and some other alliance members have been experiencing a phantom “lag”. When docking and leaving a keep, or passing through the gates, we see a drop in FPS that makes the game run in frames or freeze for seconds. Has anyone had this experience or know someone who has? Detail… CPU and RAM don’t even reach 30% of the total…
fly Safe
Is it a background feature called Ganker Assist™? 
Its been around for while, i tried dealing with CCP i just got the run-around, lost tonnes of ships to it.
Dont expect it to be fixed, CCP’s to busy “fixing things” to make the game even worse.
Have you tried playing with the 3D window turned off? CTRL+Shift+F9 toggles the background 3D off. My frames per second and network lag greatly reduce by this one aspect. I suppose if you really need to see the explosions, stars, warp trails, etc., then you cannot complain when your ship explodes. At least you got some eye candy to remember it by.
My PvP character does much better in combat with the 3D disabled.
Fly safe o7
For CPU remember to consider core counts and HT (under windows). A quad core no HT running a process at 25% in Task Manager / Process Explorer is capped on 1 core.
How exactly Windows reports the new 2 core types per CPU I don’t know.
Fortunately… I’m the one camping ‘-’