Reduce the texture detail.  I find that it makes no difference to my enjoyment of the game at all since I'm normally looking at overviews of single gravity wells and never have time to really zoom in and smell the roses unless a game has been decided and I'm just mopping up sore losers who refuse to quit and call it gg ("good games").

The other thing you can do is to put Sins on one CPU core with high priority and to put your other large programs (Internet browser, etc.) on your other CPU core using the Windows Task Manager.  Sins is pretty much a single threaded game, so it's going to hog one of the cores and it might as well have its own dedicated core with a high priority.

Keep your Empire Tree trimed and neat. Dont have everything pinned. Pin only the planets/fleets/SB you need. The Empire Tree can suck FPS in longer/bigger/larger games. The less the game and CPU has to keep up with on the Empire Tree the better FPS you get.

Open the task manager

Select Sins

Right Click: Set Affinity / Priority

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Yeah, there's the warning. Never had an instability by changing priority or affinity, though. However, at least on my machine I didn't notice any effect, but a core i7 975 isn't standard these days and people with other machines did report that it's helping a bit.

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Anyone?...lol sorry, but yeah I wanna know this before actually trying it, don't want to mess my computer up.

Howdy people,

my specs are:

intel i7 975

6gb corsair ram

evga gtx285 (196.21 nvidia drivers)

I run massive maps (133 planets, 5 stars 10 players) and it lags till its almost space empires 5 on a vista/win7 system, which is to say its down to the single digit frames. Yet, the game only uses 13% of my cpu, uses 1.3gb of ram and a whopping 2-6% of my GPU usge.

Is this normal?

is there a way to actually make the game use more system resources?

Thanks for your time,

az.

hahaha thats crazy, id love a screenshot of some of the battles you have but i suspect that would be an accidental rebbot computer button.

Thanks for the response,

az.