I have had this problem on all my stationariy computers (not on my weaker laptop for some reason)
What happens is during the course of the game, the fleets will grow! (i use normal fleet size) When i get to logistics lvl 2 in tech and have a handfull of ships the effects start to dissapear. I can now only see a few lasers, a few nukes on planets and very few missiles in the air. The death animation for ships are poorer to. This is the case with Sins + all the expansions.
As effects are important for my imersion this reduction in detail leaves me unable to enjoy the game, it looks stupid to have a fleet face off against just some static defences (maby 40ships on screen as there is no hostile fleet in the system) and see almost no firering.. This game cant be this badly optimised for pc?
My computer is strong enough to play bf3 on max, and i have 0 slowdown while playing sins, but still the game seems to cut out effects...
My rig:
Cpu: i7 3.16gig (quadcore)
Ram: 12gig
GPU: Nvidia gtx 480
Win 7 64bit home edition.
Why can my 4year old laptop play this game better then my gaming pc??
And are there any solutions for this?
(Ps: turning down antialiasing and so forth helps nothing)
(PsPs: Just for fun i put all effects down to lowest possible. And still no improvment. A missile ships that normaly shoots like 6missiles now only fire two missiles. This does not make any sense)