The last Radeon drivers screwed up AoW: SM for me, have to play the game without Direct 3D.  Hopefully the new version will fix the problem!

Edit: No, still broken.  Ah well thanks for the news anyway, maybe it will help out people who are having problems with EWOM.

Any luck?

Highly doubtful, since a lot of the people with frame rate issues have an NVIDIA video card.

does it change anything? I mean this game is so old that it's ugly anyway (one of my favourite tho... with MoM of course )

Running the game on a GTX275 myself which is pretty much the same card and I'm having horrible framerates without AA/AF and while playing on default settings at 1920x1200 :/

My system doesn't appear to have any bottlenecks that may affect the game. The game stutters while two out of four CPU cores are at about 60-80% and the GPU at 50% load. (i5-750 @ 3.6GHz, 8GB DDR3-RAM, Win7 x64) Changing affinity to one core doesn't help at all but puts the core in use to 100% load.

So the problem doesn't seem to be related to the card model/manufacturer only.

forgot to mention that I'm playing in 1280*1024 because I've an old LCD so that might be the reason why it's ok...

one thing I've noticed: I've a quad phenom at 3.7Ghz and the game is really crap at utilising properly all my cores... so perhaps there's room for improvement on that front...