Big Problem With Running SC4

[Panzerkind_ 0]

Lately SC4 has been super choppy upon startup and will freeze completely when scrolling. When I Ctrl+alt+del out and open up task manager it says that the game isn't responding. This makes no sense to me.

 

I'm running on a quadcore laptop with Win 8, I've heard there has been issues with Win 8. (I am already doing the CPU0 affinity trick so don't suggest that, and i am running compatibility Win XP SP2.

 

I don't know where to begin trying to fix this crap, someone help please.

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Might be something going on in the background, like a full virus scan, windows installing updates, any number of things can temporarily slow down a computer. If the problem only happens with SC4, or it's been going on for more than a day, obviously that's not the case.

What video card do you have?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

And notwithstanding your earlier disclaimers, what do you have in your shortcut target line?