Late game lag fixed?

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So, I played sins alot in the past, and i loved it, but the day came when mid/late game lag pissed me off and made me quit. I have a powerful computer, but the game always went into slideshowmode with 10fps when the game started to get interesting.

I remember looking into this, cause the problem persisted even when I got a new computer, and I found a forum post saying everyone had this problem and it was related to bad code or something.

I really wanna get back into this game, but I will only do it if the fps issue is fixed, anyone know if it is?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Sins of a Solar Empire code base dates back to arround 2006.

 

The game engine was designed with

  • 32 Bit
  • Single CPU core
  • Windows XP

in mind.

 

And while there have been significant improvements in certain areas, you still will reach the point where the single CPU core used by Sins of a Solar Empire cannot handle all the stuff going on anymore and so the game becomes slower.

 

You can have a 4 Ghz Oktacore with 32 GB of RAM.... it doesnt matter. Because all that will be used by Sins is:

  • 1 CPU Core
  • 2 GB of RAM (using Windows)

 

 

A 64 Bit multi core rewrite has been on the communtiy wishlist for years. Unfortunatly it is too much work to justify it for anything but Sins 2.