I have noticed that since the release of the soviet ships that I have lag at the start of
the battles or while waiting in the room for the game to start. I start to stutter when it
starts to fill. I originally thought this was due to my computer and it being old and
using a lot of resources. Since getting a new machine this is still there.

This lag disappears when I am looking at blank areas of the map or areas not as
populated. This would suggest that there is some kind of problem with a sprite as it seems
to be a problem with my card trying to draw to many objects. The game is only using
original content no custom sprites or any of that junk. My video card is a nvidia gtx275
on a 64 bit machine with 8 gigs of ram.

I watch my resource monitor and can see the game use 3 gb of ram, the most a 32bit game
will use, and 1 of the cores run at maximum until I move to a new part of the screen.