I had the exact same problem. Then I remembered that I haven't defragged my C drive in forever so I did. Now it works great! I would recommend trying that. It worked for me.
SpaceCataz
Idk, what is confusing is that it is the single-player skirmish games that are lagging really bad. I'm to scared to try online if singleplayer is acting up so bad. The lags that I'm experiencing are dehabilitating... They reduce the match I'm in to a near stand-still. and it takes 5 minutes just to exit out of it... It is really ticking me off, especially since yesterday it was somewhat fine. Today, since I downloaded that update, I can't play for 2 minutes
Hey, I got Demigod as a early b-day present and it was given to me friday. It is a lot of fun, despite only being able to play single-player. But ever since I recieved it, it has been super laggy. I have used WinASO Registry Optimizer to help clean up some errors, but it seems that my computer needs to be squicky clean in order to play a whole skirmish game without lagging out... I just downloaded the new update, and now it is always laggy... It is quite frustrat