3 Minor Warlords Issues

[AncientPlayer]

Since installing Warlords I've noticed these; none appeared in the basic game.

1. Graphics glitch: Units in a city no longer appear on top of the city graphics which means that they're mostly or entirely hidden.
2. Graphics glitch/slowdown: although the base game ran extremely smooth on my machine Warlords shows many issues apparently when rewriting a portion of the map and/or when revealing a map area. The screen will freeze in the midst of a scroll for a ~~1/4 second the write the area.
3. Sound (music) issue: the volume level for music now appears to drop off much more steeply and sooner in the zoom levels. The impact is that the music is gone or almost inaudible (despite the volume slider at 100%) at the zoom level I normally play at.

Machine specs (full data available).
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Memory: 1022MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
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Display Devices
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Card name: RADEON X300 Series
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: RADEON X300 SE (0x5B60)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Display Memory: 128.0 MB

 

[AncientPlayer]

Follow-up info on item #1

This graphics issue does not show up at 1024x768 but does show up at 1280x1024 which is what I normally use.

Follow-up #2.
1. This appears to be a zoom level issue. At close zooms the city graphic is behind the unit. Farther out there's a change in the graphic and this one is now on top the unit. Happens right at the zoom level I normally use so I notice it all the time.

2. This issue is unaffected by setting the graphics levels all down to medium. VERY annoying!