Game Speed Multiplier Bugged??

[Goblin Wizard]

I don't know what resources are mentioned too, but 8X works for me most of the time ("most" means about 2/3) . An exception is when the system is overcrowded or battles are going on. Generally, if to many ships get into scanner range speed drops to 4X. My comp is about 2 years old so nothing special.
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A little hint that I've found in the russian 1.1 patch descrition. "Implemented the acceleration time of 8. With the lack of performance mode automatically turns off."
"performance mode" - probably that in windows settings. Maybe this will help you.

[Killer]

Sometimes it works, sometimes I have my screen full of Not enough resources for 8x. It is becoming really, really annoying. I usually end up by clicking ] like an idiot so it goes to 8x almost immediately. I wish someone told be, which resources are missing. My PC is an average one built on November 2007, Core 2 Duo E6570, 4GB RAM, GeForce 9800GT a and Win XP 32bit.