the cause is the limit of particles, and from what I remember it is either to reduce out of memory crashes OR prevent 30 second slideshow battles due to each of the particles positions and travel needing to be updated by the CPU(and only a SINGLE core is used by sins so haveing a multicore beast does not help (and from what I remember seeing in the threads the iron engine was developed BEFORE multicore headed to the mainstream of computing))

harpo

So, basicaly, there's nothing I can do about it?

When the Core that is operating Sins can't download more things is exactly when the shots stop appearing right?So, even if I raise the particle limits, the Core won't download it anyways and a single Core is about 3.40~3.90 GHz (On my Core i7), don't forget I got 4 of them.I think this problem can be solved by making Sins executable by more cores, a multicore program, but it will be hard to do.

Well, ty for the answers, I guess I need to keep playing like this =/

Oki, but....I can't open this file format.

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Probably this one. Increasing it will allow more shots to be displayed, but those shots will take up memory, so if you increase it too much you might get decreased performance. Just depends on your PC and what kind of battles you're fighting.