User blog:ARevolvingDoor/The Common Player: Why do they lag?

I've noticed that a good thirty percent or so of players have lag issues, or so it seems. Many people complain, but do they try to fix it themselves? I'm guessing that most of the people who play Combat Arms aren't the most tech savvy, and thus do not defrag their system. After each patch, there are both uneeded files and fragmented files, which is why some people claim that after each patch the lag is worse, not because of the servers, but because of their own game files. For the common player who lags, there are two simple solutions, according to my theory: They need to defrag their files, or, they should reinstall their game. Sometimes, there are too many files, for example, I had three hundred and fourty files in my Combat Arms folder, and when I reinstalled it, I only had two hundred or so. BUT, it was still running on the latest patch.

Something tells me that this is a common problem. What do you guys think?