Reduced settings too. If you run everything on Highest and have skyboxes on and everything pinned to the empire tree, you reduce lag a lot by bringing settings down to High-Medum, removing skyboxes and features you don't notice/care about, and by unpinning or stacking or minimizing parts of the empire tree.

Thank you very much for the replies, I am running the latest 1.34 patch right now, bit of a shame it lags but the game is great so I am not going to let it bother me too much, I will do as you suggested and turn some things off.

I remember playing it when it first came out and it was awesome, cant remember why I stopped playing......probably work.

I would definitely revert back to 32bit but I have so many programs I run at once for work so I kind of need to utilise the 12 gig spread across the cpu cores.

Anyway cheers for the tips, cant wait for the new version to come out.

Reducing your Empire Tree (unpinning everything and only having the very very basic you need in it), will get you the biggest bang for you buck FPS wise end game.

If you want to take it a step farther, mod the trade port/refineries ships spawn rates and spawn counts. And reduce Strikecraft squad down.

How low is up to you, but the less of these ships you have floating around end game the better.

Another thing to mod, is pirate ships. Giving them an ability to self-destruct after X time will help kill any FPS lost by the game tracking those ships.

Space elevators seemed to eat some FPS. Unless your taking pictures or video, Med settings will be great for you viewing pleasure.