Rudankort wrote: I have created an EXE which seems to fix the slow downs on my side, so could you guys please try it and report back if it helps or not?

Don't have time for extended tests, but after 1.5 hours of playing everything is fine. Exe. works as it should. No issues so far. Thanks.

One person on the Steam community discussions suggested that it might have something to do with the steam achievements, as he claims he cannot acquire any since the bug appeared. That may make sense, as the steam program scanning for when achievement conditions are met is one of the things that is ...

Win 7 64bit, i5, 16 GB RAM.
Everything was fine when the game automatically updated to 1.25 via Steam. Didn't purchase Soviet Corps yet. No mods.
At march 3rd, I got notification that major NVIDIA driver update is available. This issue emerged on the same day, after update was installed.