Game just drags when I'm trying to marry courtiers. I don't know what could be causing it. My machine is a year old with 9GB of memory, an I7 processor and an excellent video card. Each time I click on the shield it starts dragging. I thought it might be my huge court, but paradoxically (no pun intended) it seems to work faster when I have more than six courtiers to marry but then bogs down again as I marry people off. I have a way to capture video of my gameplaying, but I don't think it would appear as evident to those watching.