

Zooming out of combat usually helps enough to restore playability (ideally a top-down view where most ships are not individually drawn, or a galaxy view where the gravity well is not drawn at all, if you don't need to micromanage). This may be a limitation of the game engine, or may be due to the massive number of VFX the game computes and displays in a large battle on high zoom (most ships have more than one weapon emplacement per bank, they all fire individually, there are hundreds of individual fighters, shield impacts, hull impacts, ability effects, etc.). In such conditions, less than 10 FPS is not uncommon even on hardware well in excess of the recommended specs. have the camera follow a fighter or a frigate in a planar view), game performance will tank massively, more or less without regard to your hardware. If you are unsure of your systems specs, you can use this tool to help you check if your computer can run Sins of a Solar Empire.ĭo note, however, that if you turn up graphics detail to the higher settings and allow a game to get large (large fleets, multiple enemies, etc.), then in combat, particularly if you zoom in (e.g. Sins of a Solar Empire can run reasonably well on computers below the minimum requirements for example, a laptop with a 1.4 GHz Celeron CPU and an ATi Radeon eXpress x200m video card can run the game with all settings on lowest at 1280 x 800 screen resolution with playable frame-rates throughout most games.



