How to fix constant freezes?

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I'm playing entrenchment with 7DS, on the (huge multi) map at the start it doesn't lag at all but after 20 minutes it starts lagging and then freezes for about 5 seconds every 30 seconds then freezes to 10 secs, 20 secs, and 30 secs. My specs exceed the games requirements, I used to be able to play this game on my shitty pc with even bigger battles, but for some reason I can't with this pc that can run crysis max with an average of 40fps. Is it the mod? Or something else, did not touch the actual game in about 2 years so, I haven't tested vanilla. The factions are all on hard and 2 on very hard, maybe they mass produce ships?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

That's really too many variables to be able to say what it is, but yeah with all of that together it's probably over kill for what Entrenchment can handle. Remember that Sins can only use 2 GB of ram, so even if you have 10 GB you're not going to get any better performance with someone with 4GB, everything else being equal. This is a far less of a big deal with Diplomacy as they highly optimized the engine, but with Entrenchment it is a big factor.

On vanilla Entrenchment what helps many people is the Sins Optimization Project, but I am unsure if it will work with 7DS and even if it does its impact will be limited by the additional unoptimized material in 7DS.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Something I've noticed is that when there are 100+ bomber squadrons, their auto-attack causes the game to freeze for a second or two (or more, occasionally) when they retarget or are issued an order.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, these darn arilou mass produce ships no matter what, in less then 2 minutes they're whole planet is filled with 90+cruisers and 150+Fighters. Funny thing is I always put three of them in every single player game.