Campaign map display problems, lag

[Totenkopf]

First off, thank you for what is, in my opinion, simply the best computer game I have ever encountered. I download a 0.8x release many months ago, which brought me immense enjoyment, so I was very excited to check the website the other day and find that not only had a full 1.0 release been made, but an extension even to that.

I downloaded the 1.1 files, and installed, as usual, to a fresh 1.5 vanilla version. That all went without a hitch.

However, I have a couple of severe problems: the game is uncharacteristically laggy, for a start, but only on the campaign map (I can play pitched battles at high graphics and with huge units, with no problems, so I doubt the cause is that my hardware can't cope). Indeed, the lag is so bad that it is is impossible to play a campaign at all as the mouse doesn't even move smoothly enough to click on things without immense effort.

The other problem, which I suspect may be related to the lag issue, is the way in which the campaign map displays. The symbols for the factions don't appear on the flags above settlements or held by the army models: I just get a grey rectangle where the symbols should be. The actual graphics of the campaign map also seem 'off', in a way that is quite difficult to describe; they don't look like they have been drawn fully, I suppose. The resource icons are also much more scarce than I remember them being in 0.8 (though I'm not sure whether that's not just a change in the game itself).

I have the game installed on a partition to my hard drive, not the usual 'C:\Program Files\...' path. I put the vanilla version in the folder 'D:\Rome\', and installed EB in there as well, along with the documentation, TrivialScript (whatever that is) and recruitment viewer. I have a suspicion, though I could be totally off the mark, that the problem may be that a path for where to find certain information like symbols is hard-coded in a file, and that because of where I have installed the game the system cannot find the symbols, resulting in problems with drawing and a consequent lag as it tries to sort itself out (but as I say, I could be totally wrong: especially as I would have thought that a problem like that would give me an error message or CTD, and I've had none of those).

I hope that this problem is soluble, since I am really looking forward to seeing what new wonders await in the full release!

Many thanks.

[Tellos Athenaios]

The grey rectangles seems like either your hardware is freaking out or something is missing from your install.
The additional lag is caused by a feature added to EB with 1.0: the Client ruler script.
Less resources is also an intentional change from EB 1.0; the game was considered to be too easy economy-wise. As of EB 1.1 many resources have been re-located as quite a few of the EB 1.0 ones were located in The Sea (preventing these from contributing to your economy); so now it should be somewhat easier than 1.0, though.
EDIT: And with 1.0 came new map textures, too.

And no, the absolute path to the symbols is for sure not hardcoded; else the concept of running a mod from a so-called 'mod folder' (every file of that mod located in an rtw-like folder structure inside a folder with the name of your mod; in casu: the folder EB) wouldn't work.

[bovi]

Make sure you quit Free Download Manager, if you have it installed. It will slow RTW down to a crawl.

Also, you should try the client ruler optimization.

[mcantu]

another thing that causes very bad lag on the campaign map is trying to move units more than they can move in one turn. Only assign movement within the green indicated area...

[Tellos Athenaios]

And toggling off settlement names appears to/has been rumoured to speed up the campaign too.