Poor Performance

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After snooping around for a while I'm fairly sure this is the correct place to post, if its not I apologize and would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

I just bought GalCiv 2 ultimate and I believe I'm having some kind of performance bug. Take a look at this screenshot:

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7136/gc2twilightofthearnor20.png

I get 4 FPS in this shot, 'best' graphics settings with AA off. After playing with the options I discovered that disabling ship textures brings me back up to 40+ FPS. The more ships on screen the lower my FPS is. Even in the ship editor I get a huge FPS drop. I do not understand why this game is bringing my computer to its knees, especially considering I played the vanilla version 3-4 years ago on a vastly inferior machine and it ran great. Here are my specs:

Win XP 32 SP3

e5200 3ghz 2mb cache

3870 512mb with latest drivers (updated them about 2 days ago)

3.4gb of ram

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I have no idea what the problem could be.  It looks like your screenshot is in widescreen, I guess that's the only thing that maybe wouldn't have been available a few years back when you last played it.  But I imagine the game supports widescreen so I really don't know.  Sorry.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Problem is fixed, Xfire was conflicting with the game somehow and causing the FPS drops.