if i turn graphics to low it does nothing to help the lag turning glow off does nothing. this does not happen when facing open space. makes fighting in an astroid field very very very hard. there are like 3 frames a second when it lags. always happens when facing space station or astroids.

Then it's probably pixel shaders. What video card? Windows/Mac/Linux? In OpenGL there is an option to turn them off; I'm not familiar with the DirectX options

i have a g4 mac with a 64mb vidio card it is a GeForce FX 5200. Thanks i will turn of pixel shaders.

it fixed the problem everything is smooth now thanks a lot.

Yes, this is a known problem on Macs, especially with FX5200s. OS X 10.3.5 seems to be less bad; what OS X version do you have?

haha this is why you buy a readeon Alious Fuse lol, those 5200's are a sorry excuse for a gfx card, i know I had one. I pucked up a Ti4200 and it works a million times better, and it was half the price.

A 5200 is just an upgraded GF4MX, which is basically a GF2MX, which is basically a stripped-down GeForce2 GTS. So, a GeForce FX 5200 is just an upgraded GeForce2 GTS. :P