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But I still think it's rubbish that an up to date 2.8Ghz CPU is maxing out a core no matter what. This is the only game I have ever come across that runs so terrible and runs maxed out CPU utilization. Usually when your CPU is 100% is insufficient CPU requirements. I noticed that my FPS is low no matter what settings I use highest or lowest settings don't increase my frame rate. Oh and by the way, when I tried applying 1.21 patch it now asks me for an elicense cd key. My paradox version never came with a cd key and was never required to run the game, just the disc had to be in the drive. Does this mean I have to re buy this game to get latest patch's from now on???

Okay full system specs if this helps: PSU: BFG HS-1000 1k Watt CPU: AMD Phenom II 1055T 2.8Ghz MOBO: MSI 980a-G65 GFX: Evga GTX 470 (X2 for SLI) RAM: Corsair 4Gb Kit 1600Mhz DDR3 9-9-9-24 HDD: WD 320Gb (x2 AHCI) OS: Windows 7 x64Bit GFX: v258.96 Driver MOBO: v15.49 Driver DXDIAG: http://www.vvvbattalion.com/uploads/CMSF/DxDiag.txt And here is Fraps with the FPS in the screenshots: http://www.vvvbattalion.com/uploads/CMSF/CMSF-1.jpg http://www.vvvbattalion.com/uploads/CMSF/CMSF-2.jpg http://www.vvvbattalion.com/uploads/CMSF/CMSF-3.jpg CPU-Z info: http://www.vvvbattalion.com/uploads/CMSF/cpuz.htm

Okay, I take the GPU not being utilized back. I ran eVGA percision and the games only utilizing 20-40% GPU max! It picks a random core at 100%. I have reinstalled all my drivers for motherboard and graphics card to the latest. I'm on the game version of 1.20 since later patchs are not supported by paradox any more. I'm getting 5-15 fps max unless im looking completely away from the battle and I get 25fps. There is no way this old game would ever come close to ultilizing 4Ghz of CPU clock cycles. It doesn't matter if I run stock 2.8 or overclock to 4 it still sucks away 100% of one random core. What else can I do about fixing this problem??? Oh by the way I love the ToW series as a side positive note. I don't mean to sound all negative.

First of all this is just a hunch but I don't think this game supports 3D rendering on the graphics card?? I have a GTX 470 and believe me this is one of the few games my graphics cards DON'T heat up at all so this game doesn't even use graphics cards. Its only using like 256-512mb of ram at the very most and doesn't support multi-core!?!? Maybe this game has some coding errors that's running infinity loops and sucking up all the CPU cycles? Oh and my system specs: CPU: Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8Ghz RAM: 4Gb 1600Mhz DDR3 GFX: GTX 470