EB Performance

[Tellos Athenaios]

Hey everyone, first of this is the greatest RTS game of all time, I dont care what anyone says, plus you learn alot about history which is great. I want to say thank you.... I am having some problems though, I just got a new computer 3.2 ghz and installed a GFORCE 8400 gs, now I dont know much about computers but no matter what I do the campaign map runs slow and very choppy, however the battle map runs almost to where I want it... is there a trick to making this game run faster and for the mouse to not move so slow and choppy? I have all the detail settings to the lowest and still the only difference is on the battle map, I dont know if its the cloud animations or what? Its just running choppy and its getting aggravating....Im chaffing at the bit to play like a normal person....

What "3.2Ghz" processor?
How much RAM do you have?
What Operating System (make that: What version of Windows) do you have?

Tried killing off any unused applications such as printer/scanner/OCR software, quick-launch-applets and of course MSN messenger? Try running it while there is as little else as possible running on your system.

Since you don't apear to be trying EB on a Office PC, you can probably do something like:
From the Start Menu go to Run, type dxdiag and hit enter/click run; post a picture of the window that pops up once it has gathered its information about your hardware.
Alternatively, if you have Vista it's probably easier to type dxdiag in the search box of the Start Menu and use the program it finds (its the same thing, really).

Now for some actual solutions:
-As mentioned try running RTW/EB with as little else as possible going on.
-Try lowering the campaign map resolution
-Try running with the settlement labels disabled (you can edit this in your EB/preferences/preferences.txt directory) or use Ctrl + T when you enter the campaign map. Note: settlement names should now disappear!
Less easy to do: try running with different (older/newer) 8400GS drivers.