the game rooooocks! it's really damn cool, no crashes, everything runs smoothly on my system. great work. i wonder why so less people have heard about this great game. i just have one question: is there a big difference in running sins on a dual than on a quad-core cpu (on windows xp, not vista)? i mean, in the late game when big fleets come together, it's normal that your frames drop a bit. is a quad core cpu significantly improving frame rates in comparison to a dual core cpu in this situation? is there a special support for multi-core cpus in general? by the way: is there any shortcut to display current fps? thanks, bernhard