Game slows down

[Helpless]

Marc, can you please post your dxdiag output? Also did you try to disable sounds and see if it makes any difference (ex. copy sound to nosound)

[MarcA]

OK, I know this is going to sound strange but hear me out.

I finished playing Road to Leningrad and started Road to Kiev. Everything was fine. Nothing slowed down. Page Faults reached 20 million at one point but had no impact on game speed, it was fine. (I am guessing it creates the page faults but doesn't access them.)

So I loaded up Road to Leningrad again. Very slow. Slow scrolling, slow unit selections, slow bringing up reports. Anything to do with the interface. Again, getting progressively slower with time.

So I load up Road to Dnepropetrovsk. This time it is fine, speed OK.

So I decide to load the main campaign (41-45). When I am on the lower half of the map, below the Pripet Marshes speed is fine. When I am on the upper half of the map, above the marshes, very slow. Around Leningrad it takes a second or two before it starts scrolling. And don't even try to call up the production screen, it takes several seconds to come up.

However, if you use the jump map to jump to the Kiev region and press P the production screen comes up almost immediately.

(P.s. I don't play with sound on, I did rename the directory to no sound but it didn't make any appreciable difference)