Significant lag even in single-player (PC)

Sivar

Nearly every action seems randomely laggy in BG2EE, with hard-pauses of 300-500ms:
- Opening an area container, such as a barrel or merchant's countertop
- Some progression through dialog (after selecting dialog responses, about 1 in 15 times).
- Random pauses when doing nothing of note, e.g. walking.
- Picking up items from within inventory

The pausing is inconsistent but some pause takes place at least every minute or so. It seems most consistent when in the inventory screen. I suspect the lag is linked with a file read/write, though my hard drive has no performance problems.

System running BG2:
- Windows 8.1 x64
- i7-5930K CPU (not overclocked), X99 chipset, 32GB RAM
- Geforce 780 with latest driver
- Intel 730 SSD (Windows), WD "Green" 4TB hard drive (Beamdog games)

Is any additional information required?

wubble

I have a feeling it could be windows 8.1, my brother and I both get lag in itunes and even though my laptop is low end he has a gaming laptop so theres no excuse.I seem to remember that one of the system processes is using loads of memory when it happens, you might want to bring up task manager and when you get lag switch to it and check.

Though after reading through your post again it seems more likely that it's completely unrelated.