Seems that the game has too many problems right now. Guess it's a refund. I'll wait and see if devs will fix it. Post midgame it's borderline unplayable with random fps drops. See ya next sale.

I've tried the news 1.0.2.0 patch and the game runs even worse for me now, more freezes during zoom in and even longer lag after pause.

Edit: Oddly enough reducing "lens flare effects" to 0% improves perf a lot. I don't even see a difference visually o0

Yeah I think there are some memory leaks especially in vram. The "system shields" with info and diplomatic ones seems to be broken. Sure at the beginning of the session it seems fine and runs stable, with minor hiccup when turning on the filters @ capped 60fps (on my old gf1080 and ryzen 7 3800xt ...