Lag/Choppy Animations in Battle

[Maltor124]

THIS IS NOT A GRAPHICAL ISSUE.

In large battles, particularly with great numbers of infantry (Darth Mod is a huge problem), while the game does not lag, per-say, any and all actions I do take some time to actually register. Animations slow to a crawl, buttons take as much as a few seconds to understand that I moused over them, etc. Yet I can scroll and pan and rotate the camera all around the map any way I want with no issue.

I'm basically positive this a CPU issue, since Task Manager reported ~80% CPU usage on average during one of these battles, with spikes in the high 90s. That would also explain the symptoms, but what I am wondering, why does it insist on having a separate frame rate for all of these elements, and can I disable it? I would much rather it lag overall than furiously watch my soldiers move at half a frame per second when I am playing the game at 60FPS.

For quick reference:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.01GHz
RAM: 4096MB DDR2 @1066MHz
GPU: NVIDIA GTX470 1248MB

I had this same issue on my old 9600GT, so once again, I highly doubt this is a GPU issue. This happens inside and outside of Darth Mod. If this is some bug, and not just a 'feature' coded in the engine, a way to fix it would also be greatly appreciated.

Attached is the dxdiag.

[irishron]

When did you upgrade to Win7?
Did you upgrrade your motherboard drivers to Win7 64bit?

[Maltor124]

This is my second install of Windows 7, and I have been using it ever since I bought E:TW.

I'll try updating them now.

EDIT: Nope, nothing. It turns out I already had the latest, anyway.

[karamazovmm]

it is a processor and coding issue, I have it also when there is too much man in the battlefield or there is a siege going on with too much and sometimes a unit get stuck in some destroyed part of the fort.

This game has been always like this as all the series. I can't use 8000 unit in any game of the series.

Anyways I don't enjoy seeing that much man in the battlefield, since the units (especially in empire) have a problem with formations, and the need for everyone to be in the firing position to fire, so pathfinding becomes a great problem, especially with the tress and fallen tress, wagon, and other obstacles that fill the battlefield.

So all in all personally I don't like any changes to unit numbers when there is not any change in terms of pathfinding, and this is hardcoded