I was just eyeballing it judging from other games I've played. Fraps showed about 40 fps when zoomed out, around 30 when zoomed in on the planetary scale, and drops to 10 when you look at the planet. Turning up the textures is just unbearable even without the planet in view.
My laptop has a 1.46GHz Pentium dual-core, 1 GB ram and the X3100 integrated graphics running Vista Home Premium and it runs the game just fine 1024x768 with the effects off and the textures at the lowest setting. In one 4 player game with around 20 planets, there was about 20-25 frigates, 3 capital ships, and 3 fighter groups shooting at one planet and the frame rates were still decent for me. Zoomed out to manage the empire, the frames never really fell, only time it fell a good deal was zoome
Tried loading up my game today and it would load, and instantly minimize. Tried to bring it back but it constantly would minimize. Just played a game last night without any issues. Only thing I changed was updated my nVidia drivers from beta 169.01 to 169.04. Haven't tried to uninstall drivers and go back to old, but I wouldn't think graphics drivers that were beta to begin with would effect "Acquire (Keyboard/Mouse) Failed." Total specs are: *Windows XP SP2 *2.4GHz Processor *3GB RA
