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Yes, it can harm the game: sometimes the interface does dim the asteroid/planet, making it difficult to navigate and build. Furthermore ships may have to fly into the wrong direction, make a 180 degree turn and then jump in order to reach the overlapping region. Sometimes it's so bad that two such things overlap directly. In that case it is impossible to control the ships or build anything properly. The bug has been reported, save files have been sent but the case is being ign

Why would you want a different graphics card? If you want more speed, get a single core CPU with more than 4 GHZ. Sins is CPU limited, not graphics limited. Theres no difference here between a X1550 and a GTX 295! Screet

It's a single core game. That means, graphic cards and settings are pretty much irrelevant. All that counts is the speed a single core of your multicore cpu can deliver. It's easy to test: change to minimal graphics settings, the game will use less RAM for the whole game than most modern GPUs have. The speed problem won't go away, though. Then run task manager and watch: one core is constantly maxed out, even if the game is paused (!!!) but the other cores are idle.</p

[quote quoting="post"]This SHOULD not happen. Is something wrong with my computer or my game?[/quote] That is entirely normal behaviour of the game. Be happy, when I tried to run it on a 5.9 rated Phenom system, it took several seconds to display a single frame... Running other apps is no problem anyway. Sins does only use one core and causes minimal GPU load. It's all, entirely, related to the speed of a single core (and probably the RAM speed). On a Core i7 975 it's

[quote who="Luuuk" reply="34" id="2571482"]Even on the back of the package, where the discs are inside, it says that it is multicore compatible. Well, you should rename it to "Can only use one core". [/quote] Yes, I too see that as a lie. Here in germany it's unlawful to advertise product properties which are not present. Would also account that to the Vista Speed rating of Sins - it's entirely wrong and misleading. I had a 5.9 rated system which was unable to run sins (except you thi

[quote who="Manick2005" reply="2" id="2565075"]I can monitor my CPU/RAM usage on my keyboard's LCD screen, but how can I see how much stress the game is putting on my graphics card? I don't recall my CPU or RAM ever hitting its maximum output though, with the exception of a few spikes, but I haven't been paying too close attention either. In terms of our GPU, both you and me possess cards that are near identical in performance, so I hope I am not pushing it either. Although,

[quote quoting="post"]I just bought the graphics card not too long ago, and while it is at least making the game semi-playable in large conflicts between maxed out fleets, the performance is still very disappointing. I went from a Geforce 8800 GTS (320mb), so the graphics hardware upgrade was very significant. But what about these specs is still lacking? I know that Sins cannot utilize multiple cores, but would the processor even be part of the problem? I am not too su

[quote who="micro5797" reply="25" id="2559359"]Also, how do you get 9gigs of memory and still run in tripple channel? Someone correct me if i am wrong in my thinking, im still on ddr 2.[/quote] 3x2 = 6 GiB 3x1 = 3 GIB 6 modules (all slots filled), 9 GiB I wouldn't do that, though. Never mix different memory chips! Even if you want to go to 6 modules, ALWAYS have 6 of the same type and production date! Otherwise it MAY work, but most likely reduces p

[quote quoting="post"] Overlapping planets seems to be an accepted 'feature', but I see no benefit and it just makes it harder to perform actions in the correct gravity well. Unless the two planets were given a single gravity well, I would think it better to get rid of overlap due to the gui problems. I understand it has some novelty effect, but otherwise is there any reason not to remove these?[/quote] Report it as a bug? Maybe they need enough pressure. I've really had faulty

[quote who="Major Stress" reply="12" id="2555200"]The game does use both cores of a dual core cpu. My dual core pentium runs 50% each cpu while the game is running. [/quote] How can it do that if it's only using one thread? Could it be that it's 100% load on one core and then the thread jumps to the other core, maxing it out while the first core cools down, then jumps back? That's the experience I've had with QuadCore CPUs (Phenom and Core i7). However, at least with the current syste

[quote who="BCXtreme" reply="3" id="2553949"]OK, well your suggestion helped a little, but the game is still painfully slow. Neither RAM nor CPU usage is anywhere near the maximum. I do have an idea: is it possible that having too many AutoSaves could cause this problem??[/quote] I doubt that you've got an autosave per second running, so it's surely something different. About RAM: Reducing the graphics settings for vanilla Sins results in a RAM usage of

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="2541007"]We haven't gotten the updated localizations for the latest versions yet from the Euro publisher (and the game will not usually work with a wrong-version string file), so currently Impulse will only provide the English version.[/quote] When you add languages, may I suggest that you also add a possibility to select the installation directory? When installing from german DVD I could select drive D for installation, which is great as that's a Veloc

[quote who="BellGoRiiing" reply="7" id="2538305"]Well, just wanted to be sure, because I got the message that it may cause system instability...so...yeeeeaaaah. None of my other prgrams are using up either CPUs either, so I dunno if I'll do it anyways...[/quote] Yeah, there's the warning. Never had an instability by changing priority or affinity, though. However, at least on my machine I didn't notice any effect, but a core i7 975 isn't standard these days and people with other machin

[quote who="SliderFury" reply="4" id="2537970"]Yeah my rig has windows 7 home premium 64bit.So what you guys are telling me is that i need the mother of all single core processors which aren't common anymore...or I will always have stutter in big battles? Thaat's unbelieveably deprreessing [/quote] That's pretty much why I decided to put pressure on the developers by returning the game to the store - and now checking the forum every now and then to see whether something may chang

Moin! Ich habe Diplomacy leider nie ausprobiert, aber bei Sins selbst hatte ich das umgekehrte Problem: Ich kam mit der deutschen Fassung nicht zurecht. Die Lösung dort war, das Spiel komplett zu deinstallieren und dann via Impulse aus dem Internet (ohne DVD!) neu zu installieren. Dabei wird dann auch eine Auswahlbox für alle verfügbaren Sprachen angeboten, so daß ich auf dem Weg eine englische Sins-Variante erhalten habe. Für Deutsch müßte

[quote who="BellGoRiiing" reply="5" id="2537884"]how should I do this "set game to one CPU" thing...[/quote] Open the task manager Select Sins Right Click: Set Affinity / Priority Screet

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="2" id="2536492"]If the guy from the store have refund you, he was stupid... sins use the second core for speed up the load of the game... [/quote] Well, it was not only that (although it's really the biggest problem) but also other things: - vista performance rating is definitely not correct, even on another 5.9 machine sins did run so slow that I had less than 1 frame per second on medium maps after some time - there's quite a number of bu

You should be able to play medium sized maps on 2x speed unless you fight larger battles - then you'll most probably have to switch to 1x and still have a bit of stuttering. At least that's my gaming experience with this system (and Sins is not GPU limited, but limited by the speed of a single processor core as it cannot utilize multiple cores): Intel Core i7 975 @3.3 (turbo boost 3.6) 6GiB Triple Channel 1600MHz DDR low latency RAM nVidia GTX 295 (2*896 MiB)</

[quote who="teani" reply="8" id="2521824"]Yeh its later in the game. Changing setting doesnt really do much either , and i mean from everything lowest on 1080x780 to full everything on 1600x1080[/quote] If you open task manager while running sins, you'll see that it's not a graphics bottleneck, but that the game is CPU limited - it's only using a single core. On my Phenom 9500 (4*2.2 GHz) it was pretty much unplayable on medium maps and with my new core i7 975 (4*3.33 GHz) it'

[quote who="BellGoRiiing" reply="6" id="2489613"]Never knew about the Empire Tree thing...gotta try that sometime after my computer upgrade. I only used that part for keeping an eye on my capitals anyways.[/quote] You really should give it a try: It's much easier to give attack orders against specific ships using the tree! Try to shoot down specific ships when two big battle balls are on screen - you won't be able to pick your target otherwise! It often makes moving to the point of ac

[quote quoting="post"] Ok Here is my issue, While playing sins/entrenchment for an extended period of time(usually over a couple days) my game starts to lag just ever so slightly and the during large battles ships just randomly "slide" in some direction. now this only happens in HUGE battles(100+ planets with a lot of huge fleets and usually 5+ AIs and me). This even happens when I zoom out so I pretty sure its not my video card. The lag is not unberarable but it is REALLY annoying.&nbs

[quote quoting="post"]Update** I used Impulse to do an install check on sins. It said it was a bad install and that I should check for updates. I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it. Still freezes on main menu. So I'm downloading the update from Impulse now.[/quote] Did you reinstall from disc or from the internet via impulse? If your disc is somehow having damaged files (bad mastering) or suffers mechanical damage, then forget it and simply install from the internet.

[quote quoting="post"]Dual core @ 1.83 Ghz (T2400) * - I know it only has 64 mb of onboard memory, but it's effectively 256, as it pulls the rest from the system. How turbocache stacks up against dedicated graphics memory is a debate I lack the knowledge to have, but I've heard it's close.[/quote] The 1.8 GHz is surely part of the problem as Sins is a single core game. I tried to run the game on a Phenom 9500 with 4*2.22 GHz and it was pretty much unplayable. With an Intel

[quote who="bxturtle" reply="3" id="2470553"]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.[/quote] 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:

[quote who="ice27828" reply="2" id="2470467"]and secret you obviously haven't played sins for a very long time if you just relaize that all games will run slower and slower the longer a game takes right?[/quote] I realized it when I tried to play the first "medium" size random map...and that was around six months ago - and it's really the point which did prevent me from buying entrenchment and since neither that problem nor the bugs I did report back then have been fixed by now. So I'