Sorry if there was already a thread somewhere, but I couldn't find anything similar.
Anyways whenever I start the game, the game freezes for a second when going into a new menu (especially load game) and then sometimes FPS locks itself to 30, even tho it's 80% idle. When I get into a game, the campaign map also has huge FPS drops when moving around, I mean it goes from 60 to 15 in a blink. This goes on for a minute or two then it goes away. Same thing in combat, even if I spend 10 minutes in campaign map fooling around, the first instance of combat will always have those huge drops that last for a while. It's like the game is still trying to load something, idk.
Now I haven't changed a thing about my pc, still the same toaster from before, but I could run it perfectly fine at 60 FPS even in big battles. Eventually it'd drop when having loads of fighters on screen but that's expectable.
When 0.8.1a came out, I only played a little bit to see all the new shiny stuff, and then couldn't play after since I didn't have time so maybe one of the hotfixes changed something, just a blind guess. It's not anything crazy since I can play normally but having to endure those hiccups every single time I launch the game gets annoying after a while.