I have the DVD retail game and decided to give it a try again. Everything installed fine and now with my joystick the game is a lot more fun than I remember it being. Problem is whenever I get like 8+ units from a trade station, the game starts operating very slowly. Like 4fps or something.

I noticed when trying to get an artifact. As I put some distance between myself and the trade station, the lag slow came on. Didn't matter whether I used afterburner or time increase to do it. I don't remember this being an issue on my old computer. Anyone know why this could be happening? Any way to have the FPS displayed on screen or any other debug cmd line options I can use to mess around with this?