Yep, it looks like the GPU was the bottleneck. After overclocking it by 200Mhz I gained 3-4FPS so now it's around 18FPS when fully zoomed out during the early stages of the game. Temperatures are reasonable too with the iGPU sitting around 53 degrees Celsius. During turns the responsiveness of the game drops dramatically to around 2FPS but that's to be expected given the heavy load on the system. Thanks for all of your help :) Here's a screenshot of my playing the
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Thanks to everyone for the replies. I've taken a look at GPU-Z and it appears that the GPU is consistently at 100% load and at max clock speeds as well. Unfortunately, since I don't have the resources to purchase a dedicated GPU right now (I'm in Australia and things are quite a bit more expensive) I guess I'll just try overclocking the iGPU and see how that fares. To Lucky_Jack, I've just got a question about the memory management in this game. Why doesn&#
Just wanted to bump this because a Microsoft rep sent me here (and to Classic Shell) when I asked about this. What was Microsoft thinking when they didn't include an option to use the old menu? I'm still on 1511 but I'm expecting the Anniversary Update to be pushed out soon :(