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Hi,
I played a game with 2 friends tonight and we had to give up after 4 hours of gameplay, the game was too slow. It<s just not fun anymore, its almost down to a stop. We love the game and played dozens of hours but we can<t anymore.... Please fix it...
The speed is fine at the beginning of the game, but then it drops.
A 4-hour game is extraordinarily long in the first place... and I'd wager that by that point the bottleneck is probably one of the players' CPUs, rather than a problem with Sins itself. If there are tens of thousands of ships/particles etc in the galaxy, the lower-performing CPUs simply can't keep up and game speeds slow to a crawl.
I really recommend playing shorter games, like the kinds you see online, which rarely last more than an hour and a bit but have a much more engaging strategic setting.
I have found that when one of the players in our LAN group upgraded to a faster processor we were able to get about 6 hour games in before it started to significantly slow to a crawl. Of course we play on 'normal' speed (sometimes slow). If you play on 'Faster' this will compound your problem sooner (typically).
We love big maps, so we play us 3 with like 6 unfair comps, but we had fleets with like 50 ships each, and yet it was laggy after like 10 minutes of gameplay.
And we play on Fast-fastest and it still drops to slower...
Perhaps try a few games so that you all play each other 1 on 1 with however many CPUs. If it is just that one of you has a slow PC/Internet connection, two of those games should be the same while 1 of them should be better. Of course I suppose it could be more than 1 of you having problems but if that's the case there is probably no easy solution.
Try setting the fleet size to Small and then turning down various eye candy settings on all computers and see if that helps. If you're computer saavy you might also lock all non-Sins programs to one CPU core and then have Sins be dedicated to another CPU core with high priority. Also, close other programs.
Trimming the feature tree (i.e. do not use it, unpin everything and turn-off autopinning) does wonders, as does running on low graphics.
What is truly a big killer is the game speed settings as they are trying to cram more and more cycles through the cpu.
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