Does anyone have a handle on the new weapons in Worms Reloaded

It is an issue with the game, I actually have a similarily spec'd machine as you and certain things make the game run poorly, such as teleporting, or the gas that comes out of the skunk.

I also stopped playing it due to the frustrating lag, particularly during multiplayer.

There is a thread on the steam forums for Vista x64 issues, so this may apply to you. These are the possible solutions they came up with:

• If you have a soundblaster card then disable it and try and run sound either through another soundcard or motherboard integrated sound.
• Create a new file in the worms folder named Local.cfg . Create this file within notepad and then just save it as that name. The file should just contain the following "/nosound".
• Verify the game cache, there may have been an issue with your download. Doing this will check for errors and redownload any files that are corrupt or missing.

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