Causes for poor framerate?

[Lord Crc]

Oh, I thought performance issues in high-end systems had been solved in recent patches.

Well I haven't played for since launch, and I read the same thing. So I was very disappointed I must say. Especially because the 50 FPS isn't smooth 50, there's almost always jerky movement. Which totally kills it for me. FWIW my rig can play Battlefield 4 with Ultra settings at 100-130 FPS.

In a way I'm glad it runs so badly for you That means Egosoft probably have optimization work to do yet and gives me hope.

I'm not so hopeful. The fact that performance is still horrible after a year, especially since they've explicitly stated they've worked on this, means there are no low-hanging fruits.

Though the jerky movement should be solvable and would help a lot I think.

[Swallen]

I have updated my machine:

AMD FX 6300 6 cores @ 3.50 Mhz
R9 280 Dual-X 3GB DDR5
12 GB DDR3 1333
Windows 8.1 64 bit

The game now runs fine with every single setting cranked up to the max. However, I still get freezes when approaching stations, which points to my hypothesis of disk access being the culprit.