Battle framerate issues

[RUSSIAN RED]

Hello all,

So this is my issue. It's somewhat strange actually. My campaign runs perfectly fine. Heck, I can run Shogun 2 maxed out so I'd hope I could run Medieval flawlessly. However though, when I enter the battle map, after about a minute or so my games framerate drops ridiculously low. I'm talking to the 3-6fps range. When I alt+tab out of the game and then bring the game back up, it will do the same thing, run great for a minute then horribly again. Any ideas? I've done just about everything I could think of minus anything dealing with the files. No mods either and I'm running the steam version.

My PC Specs are:
Windows 7 32bit
Intel i7 3ghz
4g ram
nVidia 250GTX SLI'd

Thanks for any help I can get!

[irishron]

Shogun2 is not part of this discussion as RTW Eras and M2TW's engine is a lot older.

Laptop or desktop?
Is the game's profile set to Maximum performance in Nvidia Control Panel?
Have you tried it on just one card instead of SLI?

[RUSSIAN RED]

Absolutely irishron. I was only trying to give an idea . This is a desktop. And no, the game is not set to max in nVidia control panel. And I've tried both SLI and only the single graphic card.

[irishron]

As old as this game is and unoptimized as it is, have you checked the temps and voltages of your computer?

Assuming you are running FRAPS or a program like it, does it do better with this program disabled?