Save Empire Earth

So me and my friend just downloaded NeoEE yesterday and after some tinkering around got a game started. However while we are playing every three minutes there is a small lag spike in which the game freezes for about 4 seconds. And rarer is that we will go for 10 minutes or so before we have a huge lag spike that lasts between 30-45 seconds.

We each turned off firewalls as that was not allowing us to play initially and we turned off all background programs to ensure there wasn't anything downloading in the background. Anyone have any ideas at what could be causing this?

Thank you for the help!

Have you played on rather large maps? Could it be the auto-save mechanism? If so, you can turn it off as well.

We thought that could be the case and while we were in game we both turned off the autosave mechanic. And we were playing on a medium sized map with 6 civs, us 2 and 4 AIs