Lag in game how to reduce it?

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Ive gotta reasonable system exceeding sins of the solar empire diplomacy requirements  but it seems after a few hours in a game with 30+planets and a few ai players everything starts to slow down and i adjust the in game speed to 4x but is a slide show.Ive got all the graphics set to medium and bloom disabled has a little difference still slows right down.Any tips to make things run smoother ?

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Did you try saving the game, restarting your computer and reloading the game? Sometimes doing this really improves the speed on my late games...

 

Edit: also, if your system is multicore (as most are nowadays), setting sins affinity for one of the processors appears to help with speed...

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

You could also try turning the "Effects" off, which do nothing but look pretty.

Having lots of strikecraft late game can cause large amounts of lag as well - if you have 50+ squads (which isn't that uncommon), every time they automatically retarget there's a significant clip in the game.

You could also try playing with smaller fleet sizes.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

close backround programs and defrag?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Turn off trade ship icons? Reduce graphics settings? Reduce exhaust trail detail? Stop playing on x4 speed! ;)

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

yeah, the 4x speed is the worst thing you are probably doing to it. If you want things to progress faster, alter the speed options in the game options. Or you can start off at a fast pace and slow it down once your system starts slowing down.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Ive already got all the things like research speed,ship speeds to max and its progressively slowed down on big maps.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Don't worry it is suppose to do that, you aren't doing anything wrong.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Hey Astounding!

I found it after a little searching, lots of info here!