Ok, so I decided to download the latest version. It was about 5 months maybe since I played. One of the patch notes said the game should play smoother for low end pc's, but that hasn't been the case. My Frame rate (fps) is horrible.
The game is playing much slower with a longer delay between actions. It only happens during combat, or during the barmaid, receptionist, etc. I have 0 slow down when running around the prison. Its not like my computer became weaker so whats the issue?
So I tried many things and monitored my task manager. My task manager says only 20% of my cpu is being used and not all from the game. Its using about 1-2gigs of memory of my 12gb. My gpu was using max speed from the looks of it. I tried freeing memory, moving it to my SSD (an older drive but better than an HDD), setting priority to high.... Nothing.
Then I remembered something, I have a turbo mode in my bios which I disabled because it was lowering my fps in games (so much for turbo huh). So I enabled it and wow behold, my game speed up by about 33% while my other games drop in fps. I found this odd. I can tell its not max speed though because it slows down the more npcs that enter the bar.
So I researched what exactly turbo mode does in the bios. I have an i7-720qm quad core (8 threads). Core speed is 1.6ghz. It says it can boost up to 2.8ghz. I learned that turbo mode allows a single core to boost to 2.8ghz, not all of them. When 2 cores are being used, it boost 2 up to 2.4ghz. And if all 4 is being used, 1.6ghz is the max.
My conclusion..... this game only uses 1 cpu. Am I correct? Honestly I can't tell. But if turbo mode made this game faster, then the issue with this game may be the fact that only 1 core is being used. Again, this is just assumption. I have no proof right now and would like someone with more knowledge to verify this.