Starburst Shockwave Cannon slows down the game?

[Orion1632]

I was noticing last night that when my Starburst Shockwave Cannons fire, my game slows down and gets really low FPS.

the situation is: I am cruising along in a Khaak sector (doing final fury missions) and the FPS is just fine, everything is smooth. Then some Khaak warp in, and my SSC turrets start to fire and the game goes slow and jerky, then once all the Khaak are dead the SSC stops firing, and the games goes smooth again.

I am not at my game box at the moment so I can't post a DxDiag.

[pelador]

Whilst your observations seem more than plausible a quick check would be to change weapon selection to see if it is SSC/pSSC and not just the volume of Khaak?

[Orion1632]

just me and one cluster of Khaak in the sector at that time. Hence it was interesting.

I didn't mind the slowdown at the start when there was khaak everywhere, but it got weird when there was only me and one cluster and it still slowed down.

[WarpedcowOwnzU]

SSCs are just very graphically intensive - if you want to really avoid the slowdown, set your camera on something else. Or just go to external ship view and zoom WAY out, that usually helps a ton too. Lowering your graphics settings/resolution will help some too. It's the worst when your SSCs are fighting Khaak ships as the Khaak laser beams slow things down too.