well first, betas are never fully optimized

second sins has a slight bottleneck due to both its age (made when 99.9% of machines were single core) and indie/startup status (Ironclad, the company that made the game was small and limited in budget) that sometimes gets in the way of good FPS. They have done much to improve it but sadly there is only some much they can do. The game is excellent aside from this,  I find that starting a game at low end helps as well and others have found ways (something about using ctrl+alt+del to pull up task manager and messing with that)

the speed settings no, the graphical settings yes

your specs look fine... much better than mine... herm...

I wonder if the new patch (1.05/1.19) help when it comes out soon.

teani, I assume your are having problems late into the game? Or do you have slow frame rates right at the start?

If you open task manager while running sins, you'll see that it's not a graphics bottleneck, but that the game is CPU limited - it's only using a single core.

On my Phenom 9500 (4*2.2 GHz) it was pretty much unplayable on medium maps and with my new core i7 975 (4*3.33 GHz) it's barely doing minimum speed, although much better than on the phenom, only slowing for fleet battles.

This is pretty much a good-bye from me now. After reading that even the next patch won't fix most of the gameplay issues I'm suffering and it's still not providing the advertised multicore support, I'm returning the game to the store for a full refund. I'll miss the game, but I'll only rebuy it if the speed issue is being fixed. Was a funny thing, because the german law is pretty clear in this case, but I had to talk to the stores local manager who then did have to talk with the head of the entire chain - but they then did agree to take it back.

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