Frame rate is so low sometimes that you can count them yourself over a period of 5 seconds, and voilá.

But on a serious note, you can download FRAPS and run that at the same time as the game.

Hard to tell. First off it's nearly unplayable for me. And beyond that I haven't explored enough of the game. 5 hours sure, most of that is lost due to frame rate. But I find it weird that I can steal stuff and sell it right back and that I can slipstream on the highways in space. :? And I hear ther...

You trader also buys cargo extensions every now and then, which is expensive as you may know.

Hard to compare. Some get 1 or two hidden ships and sell them right away. You can have 1M credits after 2 hours that way. I do use that method usually, then I get the Toucan Hauler located in Menelaus' Frontier. Right now I'm at 2 days and nearly 14 hours. I have: -3 maxed out (cargo/shields) mercur...

Well, not really myself, but with remote traders, manually.

Ok, so they do sell for 1 below average? I prefer to sell myself to get better prices. But good to know for when money isn't an issue but relations are. And for when my ships get hammered too often.

EDIT: I just realize, the OP seems to play X2 (correct?), so is it valid for X2 as well?

First of all, set your station's jump limit to 0, so you only sell in Antigone Memorial. The 2 Solar Power Plants that are there are enough to supply energy for 12 credits. Secondly, you have to realize that secondary resources are consumed much slower (I think twice as slow?). So you might have tro...

About the gates, I think Egosoft made the 1st step by relocating some gates out of the ecliptic plane to make it less artificial. In my mind the gate should be moved even further, sectors must be larger again, on average, but no more than twice their current size. The extremes may have a up to 500km...

Although I agree on both #1 (x3 being an eco.sim.) and #2, I dont agree on #3. :P If I have to choose I'd rather have a major empire making millions of credits per hour, while allowing me to place factories non-stop without running a loss. Every so often I do want to fight but not as much for the mo...

Pretty good screenies! :) May I suggest Tkr's Deprivation? Great looking sector IMO (at least from the east gate). And you could try a crystal fab for "station components with planet background". Don't know which sector, I don't think there's a crystal fab in Tkr's Deprivation. Oh, almost forgot: Sp...

Why don't you just blow up the asteroids that are in the way?

You need an Ion Disruptor to stun the spaceflies, then you can scoop them up like you tried. They don't stay stunned for long though so you have to fire the IonD a lot.
And I doubt the Paranid M6 can mount and IonD so you'll have to use another ship.

I voted expansion, mainly because I want some "sloppy flaws" in this game corrected, like sector descriptions that are incorrect (see sector's looks further below), improve the shipcomputer's voice, replace ship descriptions which are also incorrect in some cases (all blindly copied/pasted from X2)....

I got past this mission in a rather strange way. I tried it 3 times before, I thought I was either too slow, or didn't hit the Khaak ships. But at the 4th try I really messed it up. I hit the inside wall 4 times!!, so I thought it was over, but I actually got the other cutscene, meaning I succeeded!...

It depends on the ship's class. Like the Paranid capital ships are really cool (though also the Teladi Condor), but the Boron have great looking fighters. I can hardly stand the looks of the Split ships though, except the TS/TP. And the Argon have by far the best looking M6. Allround I think the Xen...

1: you can replace the music files in the soundtrack folder with your own music. Note they're have to be .mp3. 2: I don't think that's possible. Best thing one could do I guess is minimizing by pressing F5. You could also press shift-H to disable the HUD but that would remove all things from the scr...

When I buy a Teladi Condor I'll name it "Pillar of Autumn".

HALO anyone?

No?

What do you mean "we play X3"?

Errors still here...

No other advice? Did I download the wrong chipset? Redirection to the right one?

What motherboard do you have ? Have you installed the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard ? Updating your drivers is important to the smooth running of many games. If you've not done so previously then now is the time. How about this for an updated chipset driver? Picked the top one. So I g...

@ CBJ: okay I'll do that. The processes involved are the 2 SS programs and soundmanager right? So you think that could solve the problem? What drivers should I update regularly, and where? Because this is all very new to me and basically I have no idea what to look for. (NOTE: on my own PC I don't h...