OK, I have read the first two pages of the thread and answered myself. In my case, I am not getting the CPU usage issue during animations. Don't know if that might be related to some specific graphic cards or something (or whether I am saying something really silly , for I am far from being a tech person), but everything is working quite fine. The only thing I have noticed so far is that some animations are not as smoth as they used to be in the main game. Not a big deal, but it is clearly noticeable.