Hm, resurecting the thread:

I also have low FPS in Space, "Escape from Hoth" seems to be more affected than "Battle for Talorian".

GFX Card: ATI X1950 GT AGP with 512 MB,
CPU P4 Northwood @ 3 Ghz,
RAM is 2 GIG,
OS XP 32 Bit
Driver is from February 25, 2008

FpS are locked with game.lockFps 30 to 30 Fps, Minimum FpS are falling under 14 if i Fly over the Stardestroyer (I try to confirm it after doing some In-Game Tweaking)

Video.con:
VideoSettings.setTerrainQuality 1
VideoSettings.setGeometryQuality 1
VideoSettings.setLightingQuality 1
VideoSettings.setDynamicLightingQuality 0
VideoSettings.setDynamicShadowsQuality 0
VideoSettings.setEffectsQuality 1
VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 3
VideoSettings.setTextureFilteringQuality 3
VideoSettings.setResolution 1280x960@60Hz
VideoSettings.setAntialiasing 2Samples
VideoSettings.setViewDistanceScale 1
VideoSettings.setUseBloom 0
VideoSettings.setVideoOptionScheme 3

Maybe it's a Driver thing, because I cant remember of any FpS problems before February 2008.
(But in the old days only 32 Players have been on the server )

Off Topic:
The ATI 2600 is the first ATI mid Range DX10 Card. Not realy fast enough to play in DX10.
Slower in DX9 compared to the ATI 1950 Series because the smaller Memory Interface (128 BIT vs 256) but cooler and less powerconsuming because the GPUs smaller strukture.

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