Hi, i'm brand new to this forum so please go easy if this is posted in the wrong spot, goes on to long, or has been posted before. I looked and couldn't find anything like what i am experiencing. I have played sins since it came out. I never played homeworld or any of the like, so when i picked up sins it was like the holy grail. Since sins first came out i have played it on my laptop. Until now i have not considered this a problem.

    I don't know if this is a sins diplomacy problem or my comp but every time i try to run it my mouse becomes unresponsive and the game becomes choppy. This happens from the VERY start of the game. From the very beginning with almost nothing on the screen.

   My computer is a Toshiba Satellite A665D-S6091 It comes with a AMD phenom II Quad-Core Mobile Processor P940 @1.7 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, AMD M880G Chipset W/ ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 with 1GB DDR3 Discrete graphics memory, Plus up to 1661MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory. Total available graphics memory 2685MB. It also has 4GB of RAM. I use a external 22" HP monitor through the HDMI port with a usb mouse and keyboard on window 7. I run the game at the 1600 x ?? (sorry i forgot to get the number) with the textures on highest the bump on low and the one in the middle on high (sorry can't remember what it is called). I'm using unmaskable and asteroids, dust, bloom, and rings off. Sorry if you don't need all that But id rather overkill.

   So i have never had this problem with the vanilla sins or entrenchment. I am wondering if this is my computer or if my specs are not compatible with the new diplomacy since the other two run fine with bigger maps and more AI players.  I never Play online Mainly cause i'm not that good and don't know anyone that wants to play with a NOOB but that also means the lag is not online play or anything like that. So i hope someone can help and thank you to everyone who reads this and thinks about it. All replies are appreciated.