I'm noticing a performance reduction on my older laptop, though it's fine on my newer one.  I assumed it was debug code slowing the game down.

My video card is a GeForce GT 220.

That's a pretty old and low-end card. Interesting it was fine on FE but you have problems in LH. They did do a lot of engine optimizations, though, so I imagine that might be the cause.

Interestingly, the FE Minimum specs don't say much about the minimum card needed:

A couple questions:

1. Does the GT 220 have 512 MB of video memory?

2. Are you running the latest video drivers from nVidia's website? http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Lord Reliant, my video card does have 512MB of memory. I downloaded the latest driver and that helped. However, the game is still awfully sluggish, and edge scroll is unusable, even though I set the delay to zero. It takes about a second to scroll when I move to the edge and it overshoots. If I have to buy a new video card, I would be willing to do that, provided it's not too expensive. I don't play that many games, and I'm unwilling to pay a couple hundred dollars or more for the latest and greatest in video cards.

You'd get a much better gaming experience going to a more modern card. Thankfully you can get them for relatively cheap, too:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-2.html

Glad that updating the drivers helped a bit. It would be helpful if Stardock posted a minimum GPU config.

As a work around, you could change the zoom level to take you to the cloth map view more quickly, as well as disable some other graphic options (if they aren't disabled currently). Turning off outlines, shadows, lowering textures, etc. should help significantly.