Hi, it's been a while since I've used this forum. I'm glad there's still an active community willing to help other TW players. Anyways, I just purchased Shogun 2 along with Fall of The Samurai for Christmas and I've experienced the issues stated above.

Specs:

Motherboard: MSI 970 Gaming

RAM: G. Skill Ripjaws series 8gb (2)

CPU: AMD FX- 8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-core

GPU: Radeon R9 390

PSU: Rosewill Glacier 700W

Optical disk drive: ASUS DRW- 24B1ST

HDD: 2 TB Seagate Desktop

SSD: SanDisk Z400s 256 GB