I just upgraded to the .982 patch and tried to play. The game lags horribly. The strategy map portion is at like 1/2 to 3/4 speed. The tacticla combat is pure lag. Even with just the sovereign and a single enemy unit at x5 animation speed it does not evne approach to the speed of x1 from the previous patch.
Unless someone has a solution to fix it then the game is not worth playing until a patch fixes it.
