Gradual slowing down of sins of solar empire during play

[camek]

Hi,
Can anyone find the answer for rather bizzarre gradual slowing down Sins of Solar Empire, Diplomacy? It starts normally, but gradually looses the speed to very, very slow movements. In fact within a half an hour the game is unplayble. Naturally, I play only the largest maps. My system spec:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz
Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB 7.9
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory
Primary hard disk 45GB Free (93GB Total) -solid HD, no moving parts,
Windows 7
System
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Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Model X58A-UD3R
Total amount of system memory 6.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 1956 GB
Disk partition (C 45 GB Free (93 GB Total)
Disk partition (D 1796 GB Free (1863 GB Total)
Media drive (E CD/DVD
Media drive (F blue ray,CD/DVD

Graphics
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Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
Total available graphics memory 4095 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 1536 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 2559 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.17.12.6658
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1080
DirectX version DirectX 10


Many thanks for any ideas

 

[fixall]

In my experience... Slowing down of graphics during gameplay has been caused by the processor or the graphics card getting a bit too warm. I'm not sure if this is the case here, and it seems like it shouldn't be a problem considering you have a new high-end graphics card and a pretty solid cpu. I would check your temps to make sure everything is seated correctly and you don't have too much thermal paste, etc. Other than that... Someone else may have to help. :/ Goodluck man!

 

[camek]

In my experience... Slowing down of graphics during gameplay has been caused by the processor or the graphics card getting a bit too warm. I'm not sure if this is the case here, and it seems like it shouldn't be a problem considering you have a new high-end graphics card and a pretty solid cpu. I would check your temps to make sure everything is seated correctly and you don't have too much thermal paste, etc. Other than that... Someone else may have to help. :/ Goodluck man!

Thanks for the note. Unfortunately, I have had installed several extra cooling devices, on processor, graphic card... the system was customer built a week ago by a big PC merchant as I thought my previous similary spec system is to be blamed. It does not look like that.