BUUUTT i am VERY laggy and i just got stuck on loading screen had to sign off my computer to close RO not attempting to get on again.
im thinking the new windows 8 setup and the apps are gonna make it hard to not be laggy. OMG i can just imagine when it WoE
Are you trying to play RO in full-screen mode? Another player on Win8 reported that full-screen mode was very laggy, but it was fine in windowed mode.
Open RO setup (run as admin - otherwise the settings won't save right) and set it to run in windowed mode, and see if that improves performance.
There's no good reason that win8 would be slower - Win8 performance is no worse than Win7.
how do i find Avast on my computer?
You don't have it installed.
If you did, and you hadn't configured it to work with RO, the client would not start at all.