I just recently started playing Forged Alliance using Forged Alliance Forever, and it is pretty awesome!

I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, and I DO have a virtual machine running under Hyper-V, but that virtual machine is used primarily for torrents and it doesn't have anything installed on it other than uTorrent and some security software. I have tried turning off the associated VM services to see if that makes any difference and it does not.
My computer has more than enough resources to run a small VM in the background and FA, so that shouldn't be an issue.
i7 2600k @ 4.8 ghz (prime95 stable for > 48 hours)
16 GB RAM @ 2133 mhz (prime95 stable > 48 hours)
XFX Double D HD-687A-ZDFC Radeon HD 6870 1GB
2x Corsair Force Series GT 120 GB in RAID0
etc, etc
Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you