WHat happened. Fine for days not battle is COMPELTELY LAGGED

[Cabe]

I have been playing for a few days and the game has run brilliantly.
I have held seiges and such. Large battles ect. I am running a pretty decent systems xt850, augidy 2zs gamer, 3 gig ram. Abit Ic7g board.... newest drivers direct x blah blah


Well I took paris. The Pope told me to hold all hostilities to the french which was just great for them because they continued to try to assasinate every norman/englander on the map and even laid seige to Paris. SO when my 6 turns of "Ok pope guy, I will lay off and let them beat on me for awhile. France had put a bunch a of small armies around beseiged paris I decided to just sally forth and f em up.
Well the start went smooth. All charcater and camera scrolling just fine. Then as soon as I moved cavalry to attack a general who had exposed himself to a quick rush by my castle gate, the GAME DIN"T JUST LAG it became a play dough factory. Things barely moving AT ALL. EVen the event notifications of oh saying I killed the genereal takes 5 MINUTES to drop to the bottom of the screen, and then trying to read it? Forget it. I can give commands because the mouse click will register 2 mins later, as if anything had happened during that time anyway. BUT IT IS JUST A MESS I can't juts quit out of the game cuz I will auto lose and I dont want too. The French have delayed reinforcments and they are not on map yet but the flag showing entry intent are there. IT IS UNPLAYABLE. If I were to try to play this whole battle out it woul dtake well over 5 hours at the speed my units and the game is registering. Like I said, ALL battle went smoothly and amazingly up until this one. I know we have a alot of units running around but jeez this is lag overkill. I can't get to the main menu to turn everything down w/out exiting the battle=lose. I turn down what I could from the menu in the battle, but it didnt help at all. I can't scroll or rotate camera or give order and I can't same the game in battle. As I write this the game is minmized. Hmm i wounder how it is going in there? . Its a joke.

WHat is causing it and what do I do? Thanks!

[Baldrick]

Any siege ladders involved, if so it's the well known siege ladder bug, hopefully the patch will fix this.

[Cabe]

well if there wer seiege ladders involved i never saw em, and i have been in a fight where i used a ladders and had no probs. I had to quit outof the game and the releive the seige from an army outside the castle that went smoothly. No idea why the game became a screen shot when i tried to sally out before

[Ravioli]

I had the same problem, game has been working just fine lag wise since i have been playing it from day one.Then all of a sudden i was fighting a battle in AFrica with the desert sand and all and it looked like i was watching a slide show instead of a battle.I thought perhaps an anti-virus program started running scans while playing and i checked.Nothing was running.It was that only time it has happened.