Hello,
following the frequent crashes and freezes reported by brpounds (see here), I did some investigations.
In fact, version 1.07 was quite stable and it sounded very strange so many people were claiming such serious problems.
So I compared the game performances of version 1.07 before AgeOD market launch with the copy-protected version that can be downloaded from AgeOD's site.
Well, here the result: I'm really confident the copy-protection caused a general and major downgrade of game performance, bringing also freezes and crashes.
So I applied a "less invasive" level of copy protection, tweaking a bit the protection tool. Then I sent to brpounds a trial version and... puff... everything started working much better! The game was running again smooth, fast and fine, with no crashes nor freezes. The cause was found.
I hope such a news will be welcome for you. A patch will be soon available. It should fix the performance drop-downs that you, customers of the AgeOD version, are now suffering from.
My apologizes for this inconvenient. At least I'm happy the reason was not inside the game itself...
Thanks for your patience,
Calvinus.