ive a fireglider mouse and logitech keyboard, every other game even majoirty of flightsims is a pisstake, but no, BF3 either im floating like a dove about to shit all over my enemys or im being snipered by ruskies with ammo boxes.
also yes, the flight model is pretty poor, namely with the american hronets being unfairly buffered to get closer to the SU style flying... also the american plane can hover, if even the frogfoot could do that ill leapfrog a mofo' but i degress.
But dont get me wrong, on pc its more fun cause as soon as you go 20-0 or more you just asking to get banned, its the waiting game
ps: ive fiddled with all imputs, profiles for the mouse and such heck the game was running a constant 70 on all maps, even with everything in use...
generally yes, the older diesels are slow but somewhat reliable... the newer ones with dual mass flywheels... avoid like the plauge... unless you have a MWB and 2-300 kg in the back...
well i had on pc's with rubbish ram, if memory serves me right it was using HD when trying to read it and since whatever ram available was tied up running the OS i got the exact sympthoms you listed...
but then again, that was roughly 6-8 years ago, tech should be better etc etc