So I've noticed that later in game slows down (~6-15 fps)   while playing with my friend who masses fighter/bomber wings. At first I thought my system just wasn't able to handle it which was surprising since I have a 2.2Ghz quad-core. But after playing with my second monitor enabled (with system monitors not the game), I noticed that during the slowdown of my 8 hyperthreaded cores, only 1 was being utilized more than 50% at any given time and it ranged from 50%-80% never 100%, all the other cores never went above 30%. My graphics card never went above 30%. Overclocking the GPU only reduced the load on the GPU and increasing/decreasing the graphics settings only increase/decreased the load on the GPU but would not affect framerate. This would happen when I loaded a saved game after he had built up his fleet and tried to play alone so it doesn't seem like a networking issue.

Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me? I was under the impression that Rebillion has an improved graphics engine. I dont mind if the game is slow because my system can't handle it, but it's really bothering me that I have to deal with the slow-down because my system isnt being fully utilized  . Is there something I'm doing wrong? I have the newest nVidia Drivers installed...and even tried disabling HT and or lowering my cores to just 2 to see if that would help out the single core that was being taxed since it automatically overclocks itself more that way, but nothing helped. I mean with low graphics on at some points I would even see the GPU automatically down down to 2D clock settings because it was so under utilized, and even then it only hit 50% utilization...Why is the game slowing down for no apparent reason??? any help or validation of my problem would be greatly appreciated! I LOVE this game! just wish I could enjoy the gameplay the way it was intended at a comfortable framerate