Well, Beta 3-A is coming soon and will feature improvements to stability and performance. You might want to wait for that as a first step, to see whether it helps any.

Also, when asking these sorts of questions in general, providing your system specs tends to be helpful.

Yes, the first thing I do in every beta, is reset the graphic settings.  The anti aliasing kills my laptop video card at 1980x1200 at default settings, so I turn it off, and it makes a world of difference.

OK, here it goes (sorry for the format, I am a noob):

CPU INTEL|C2Q Q6600 2.4G 775 65N

CORSAIR XMS2 4GB

EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Windows XP SP3

My performance has improved since the last patch, but I still get a "white screen" when I zoom in too much and there is still some lag.  Any ideas (other than ones already suggested) would be great!

old post lives!  I have shut of anti aliasing and lighting, just about everything i can and it still crawls.  My system cranks when i play DAoC, not sure why it chugs with this game...