Unfortunely you will probably have to live with it (at least for now). As great as the game is these issues don't seem to be going away. I've had the game since the day of official release. With the initial release these problems existed, although not to such a great extent, and have gotten worse with each patch. My system also exceeds the mins but that doesn't seem to matter. Actually I can play the game on my old laptop and it is just as fast as my desktop. Go figure, I love the game but especially since the 1.05 patch it is becoming less and less playable. Support is great here but it seems that everyone is just blaming our hardware and ignoring this playability issue. I disagree with the hardware issue but will just get blasted for saying anything. I routinely see framerates of 2 FPS, and excessive lag. My system is also up to date with all drivers and everthing is running smoothly in all programs but this one.

I had the same problem before kept stopping or locking up right after I would click on something, so I put it in window mode and have not had a freeze or crash at all(I moved the window mode till it left a small amount of the desktop showing about 1/8 of a inch showing and put the task bar at hide) I have played over 10 strait hours with no problems running it at max settings

P4 3 ghz
1 gig ram
Gf 6200 256mb vid card

You aren't going for the epic 10-way wars with huge fleets, are you? It looks to me that the processor is the weak point there.

i get this weird thing, where it will be fine at over 60 fps, then suddenly it gets really slow and drop to around 10-20 fps. id guess there'd be around 60 ships in a battle, but thats not exactly massive. it doesnt feel right though, theres something about the way it feels that says something wrong...

im running an 8800gtx oc'd, e6600 3.4, 4 gig ram and vista x64