The game usually runs fine at the start of the game, but as I get more and more planets and ships, the game gradually gets choppier and choppier. When I reached 15 planets and around 50 ships, the framerate was constantly in the single digets (spelling?). Changing the verious game and graphical settings, saving and reloading, saving then relaunching the game and reloading, reinstalling, using different versions, and updating all of my drivers all did next to nothing to improve this.
My two questions are:
1. Why is this happening?
2. How can I prevent it from happening again?
My system specifications are above the reccomended:
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ @1.99ghz
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis with 128 mb of video memory (overclocked the core speed from 325 mhz to 364 mhz)
Memory: 1024 mb
Audio Card: I have no idea. It is old, though.
Hard Drive: This shouldn't matter, but I have about 40 gb remaining.
