ead the board. Pretty much everyone has the problem.

On an AMD Phenom 9500 it was pretty much unplayable.

I'd say the minimum requirement for this game is an Intel Core i7 975 or 9xx processor overclocked to similar speed.

I just don't understand how many people buy entrenchment even when they know it's that slow?!? Personally, if they won't fix it (the game can only use one CPU although being advertised as multicore) I guess I'll return it and get my money back - aside from the illegal false advertising it's also having quite a number of bugs which are not being fixed although the support knows about them.

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I have slightly worse specs.

AMD 5000+ X2 2.6Ghz---4GB of DDR2 800 RAM---8800GTS 640MB I am currently running the Windows 7 64-bit RC. Latest video drivers as well.

I run at 1280x1024 with everything on highest, including AA. I have found that the game DOES slow down a lot on large maps with several very large fleets (at least 3-4 full fleets) but interestingly enough, it doesn't slow down anymore during battles. What I mean is, battles should provide a heavier load on the computer, and yet they do nothing to slow it down further when these large fleets fight. Anything below this amount and the game runs perfectly smooth. Turning off the AA seems to help a little, but not too much. I have theorized that this may be a game engine limitation, it does not "stutter" or "freeze" it just seems like everything moves similar to molasses, as if the speed is turned down.

Note: this is singleplayer.

The fact that battles don't slow things down even more seems to point to a limitation of the game engine. I am only playing vanilla sins with the latest patch, so I cannot say how things are in entrenchment.

Edit: the OP states that he is using a 64-bit OS therefore it will be using all of his RAM.

Second edit: I just reread what was stated, that Sins only uses up to 2GB regardless. A reference for that would be great if that was true.

Yes, that's true as the game is in 32 bit and thus bound to the 32bit memory limit.

However, reducing the graphics settings massively decreases RAM usage. It doesn't speed up the game though.

That the game engine itself is written in a bad way becomes clear if you pause the game: It's still using one core with maximum load, even if the game is minimized. Furthermore, on the Phenom 9500 it was almost impossible to navigate through the menus after finishing a game because it took several seconds (sometimes almost a minute) to respond to a single mouse click...showing a few statistics or activating the button to return to the main menu/quit should not take so much time. It's much better but still laggy on the intel 975.

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