I Just want to say- I love this game's potential and I know it will be polished eventually.

BUT the rendering performance HAS to be improved. I can play any other recent strategy game, shooter, whatever, with maxed out settings, crazy amounts of AA, and have great framerates. This game slows to a crawl as soon as I have uncovered about 20% of a tiny sized map.

It doesn't matter if I turn EVERYTHING off in the video options and play at 1024x768, it is exactly the same performance wise.

My gut feeling is that there is something not being handled correctly by the new engine, maybe something that wasn't an issue in GalCiv2...like occlusion problems with the terrain, or how it handles the animated foliage, shadows, or fog of war...but something isn't right.

Yes, yes, greatly exceed recommended specs, latest drivers, disabled antivirus all that too.