New laptop, ffxi, and windows 7Follow

first off i have read thru alot of old threads here and on other tech sites.

I have been playing ffxi for almost 6 years on the same laptop.

this week i bought a new laptop becasue the old one is on its last leg

Loading the game went smooth as well as doing all of the updates from POL

the game seems to run fine in starter city's and in most zones, the problem comes when im in whitegate, on average wile running thru whitegate the screen freezes for 2-3 every 30-45 seconds. It feels like alot like communication lag but im not used to it comepletly freezing the screen. It does seem to accept some keyboard or mouse commands while it is frozen. the characters loading seem to be whats locking it up.

I have minimized almost everything i can within ffxi gameplay and turned alot of things off in windows

New machine specs

windows 7 64 bit
intel i5 processor
4 gig ram
500 gig hardrive
intel hd graphics card

within windows i have set pol to run as admisntrator and run in compatibility mode with windows xp sp 3

i have turned off google updater and a few other things that run in background.

Also i have downloaded updates for intel hd graphics as well as directx10

I am running out of things to try, i plan to call intel monday if i cant find the problem, but im hoping some of you may have had similar problems with windows 7.

any help woill be apprecitated

I used the Ultimate Colection disc

and also after all updates and such i have run a defrag on hard drive

I am using a wired dsl conection, i have played with turning wireless off. and i did a system check and upgrade from windowes website for directx just today. Intel didnt have any updates for this card, and the machine is brand new out of the box.

Windows xp sp2 same problem

windows vista sp3 same problem

Currently running windows 7 home premium