unplayable lag after patches

[Yojimbo]

Great job creative i get 3-11 fps in every battle now. Its totally unplayable, no matter what the settings and the campaign map sits at 10 fps no matter what. i have a q9550 2gb 667mhz ram an 8800gt and a X-fi fatality and i usually got 20fps or more and it was playable but now its just utterly useless. The sound is exactly the same for me as release despite the two sound patches. Marching is way too loud everything else is way too soft and sounds often don't work. A month after release and this still happens. I hadn't played this game for two weeks because of the horrible lag and now its even worse.

Worst release ever. I cant think of another game that bombed this badly. At least m2tw was playable.

I hate this game.

[Lincoln6Echo]

Try deleting your preference script file within your AppData/Roaming/The Creative Assembly/Empire folder (assuming your running Vista). Restart the game, the game will generate a new fresh one and things should return to normal.

The AppData folder is a hidden folder, so you have to enable "Show hidden foders and files" to see it.