During a singleplayer round of sins in systems of war I aquired 9 planets with a force of about 100 ships including 6 capital ships and a Novalith canon. At about and hour and a half into the game my frame rate drops form about 45-50 fps to about 15 during an intense battle. I figured this was normal and went into changing some of the settings to get a decent frame rate out of the game. After being unhappy with the results (a frame increase of about 2) I decided to live with the low fps for stellar graphics. All of a sudden my fps shoots back up to 45-50 fps, durring the same battle! I was so happy but could not figure out why this happened. I run only 4 other nessecary background applications, no antivirus software. I was not connected to the internet. I do not overclock.

System spec:

amd 3800 x2. ati x1950 pro 256 mb. 2 gigs of ram.

Did I by turning down my quality and then turning it back up trick the system into running more efficiently. I know this is not true but I would like it if my game did not drop in fps before returning to the norm. I love this game and running it on highest sttings at 45 fps is a dream.