Thanks all.
Running in a window seems to help, but not enough to make the games playable.
I'm going to chalk this issue up to some combination of (1) the anti-virus I can't turn off (2) the hard-drive encryption software that adds overhead to absolutely everything running on the machine and (3) karma, for trying to play AGS games on my work laptop.
Meanwhile, I got a new HP laptop for Xmas that runs AGS great, so problem solved...or at least generally avoided. :-)
Happy New Year!
Running in a window seems to help, but not enough to make the games playable.
I'm going to chalk this issue up to some combination of (1) the anti-virus I can't turn off (2) the hard-drive encryption software that adds overhead to absolutely everything running on the machine and (3) karma, for trying to play AGS games on my work laptop.
Meanwhile, I got a new HP laptop for Xmas that runs AGS great, so problem solved...or at least generally avoided. :-)
Happy New Year!