Why does BC3K start to run slowly or suffer frame rate reduction at certain points in the game?
This issue affects almost all computers and is primarily due to lack of processing power at certain times. Lack of processing power will have a knock-on effect in terms of reduced frames per second. Large battles (many ships, missiles, etc) often cause the problem. There is a tangible glitch shortly after starting the first ACM mission. Derek Smart writes: “ACM is more processing intensive than Free Flight. In much the same way that Xtreme Carnage is much faster than Free Flight or ACM. Check your graphics card drivers and configuration. That sort of drop is indicative of either a configuration problem or you’ve gone and sent probes or NPCs into Nullspace territory, which sets them to search the entire game galaxy until they find a way out of there. That route search is very intensive.” [I have a hunch this is related to the UCV-Molonok trying to find a way out of Obsidia (see TOD1 M1/5 – Diplomatic Escort (Majoris) above), but cannot prove this.] You may notice that when you are trave
