Battles lag hardcore!

[smitty]

I just installed BC and also have Kingdoms installed. I did not do any tricky unpacking of BC once I installed it, which may be the source of my problem. The problem is that when I go into a battle the game lags hardcore, so hardcore it takes forever to select a unit and I can't even get the units to move because the game is progressing so slowly. The campaign map has given me no problems, but the battle map is. Any suggestions? Also, I've been using a very old ATI video driver because Stainless Steel and vanilla kingdoms wouldn't tolerate newer versions. Could this be a problem? Any solutions not mentioning my video drivers would be much appreciated!

[johncage]

maybe too many units on screen? i once played something like 1000 v. 1000 on a bridge battlemap...needless to say it went something like a slideshow. also, when you have like 500 spearmen bunched up at a gate or something or on a wall the game also lags a bit. i never experienced this with kingdoms, that's why i wish this mod would officially move there