Couple of things I think may/not help you MZYTENGAM are..
your computer Specs are fine for a start ... if not way over qualified. by old computer I would be thinking SX 286, 8mb ram and a 5-1/4" floppy disk.. which your system would literally piss all over.
anyway try a few things first like rename your unrealtournament.ini to .bak
Then Re set-up your game and test on the same server's ...
as for your almost burned GPU , perhaps take it out and disasemble it ... remove the furballs from the Fins/Fans and reinstall... if if aint dead yet .. it soon will be.
Theres a tool that will make changing these settings easier at-least until/if Anth decides to make his own ingame menu ...
(personally not a fan of Mutate Seven-Hundred Leet Parameters to take Screen-Shot myself)
so you may download this from here:
acemanager
in-game on ace servers just type : '
mutate acemanager' to open.
then you can play with the various options like compat toggle / highperformance toggle etc. (theres really only 2 modes).
most often then not I have found that these issues are client-side. not server side. Perhaps you have been capped by ISP ?, perhaps your ISP has crap routing and/or the exchange is 2000 Kilometers away from your house?.
try
traceroute to Game Server's and see if there are any bottle necks in between...
*which reminds I must ring up and get
Interleaving turned off. *updated yep well that was a crock of shit cuz apparently my interleaving is already off
This I hear from random inexperienced people that can't even remove POPUP'S from their computers and/or constantly Hack Servers to be the Schiznick in Ping reduction... upto 20/30ms even!.
of course after careful study there can be a Down side of course .. but you could try.. it requires leet telephone skills with technician @ your ISP's Datacenter... some do not like the idea of turning it off which you could argue that the opposition across the road offers this server and how would they like to loose another customer?... anywayz before go totally off Tangent and start waffling about Monkeys in the Himalaya's and Purple Banana's try those suggestions above and read carefully through the (ACE Documentation) as well as in particular this thread
here.
Good Luck!
ps: One thing you could try .. not sure if it is even related .. is to set your netspeed to around 7500-10000.