Running slower after installing patch 2

[Hatchepsut]

Pardon my hopping in here, being that I am a complete newbie. I have only had the game for a couple of days, but I have played it for several hours.

Then I read about the patch so I downloaded and installed it (not having had any problems up to that time). Now I notice that the game runs a lot slower than it did before, the CPU works harder, and it seems to "think" a lot more before doing anything. :(

Has anyone else experienced this?

Would I be better off going back to the original game without the patch?

I am only playing Abu (and not doing very well at it yet, I might add) so I don't really have enough experience to judge whether the patch is a good thing for me or not.

Any thoughts? Helpful hints? Recommendations? :confused:

Thank you very much,

Hatchepsut

[mouse]

Did you reboot after installing the patch and did you defrag after rebooting your computer. Patches by their very nature fragment the game files because of replacing files.

[Hatchepsut]

I did reboot after installing the patch, but I did not defrag. I have tons of space and generally my system evals come up very low on the "needing defrag help" scale.

But I will give that a try and see if it helps.

Thank you very much! :)

Hatchepsut

[mouse]

Games unlike other software can be a bit picky about fragmentation. Hope that helps.