I've only had the game for 2 days, i'm just trying to work out if it's as fast as it should be, so far i havnt seen any 100+ battles yet.

Right, so using fraps with about 50-60 ships on screen, (some are pirates and some the other faction) 1 planet in background, and a few factories and other buildings- i get between 30-60 fps, depending on how i view the battle, but my point is that i can get it to go down to 36 fps from a certain few angles.

settings are all maxed, at 1680x1020 reso with 8800gtx oc'd, e6600 @3.4, 4 gig ram, vista x64. latest drivers.

So is this normal? or shoud i be getting more? i havnt tried a giant battle yet, but im worried it will get worse. What are yours?