Short freeze ups - help me!

[Llabak]

Ok, so the last month or two I've been having little stutters now and again. The game will freeze up for a a second or three and then keep right on chugging away.

This isn't a big deal on most of my characters, but it is death on my bard. My kite will be going perfectly and then suddenly the game freezes for 3 seconds and I come back dead.

Internet seems fine, lag meter in the top left corner seems happy.

Someone suggested I run EQplaynice or something like that as a possible solution. Does anyone have any ideas as to what's going on and how I can fix it? When it was one death a level it wasn't that big a deal, but I've had my 5th death in 35 from this and it's starting to get kinda old.

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