I had a detailed post explaining everything I could think of about my problem, but the board ate it. Instead of spending 20 minutes trying to re-create that, I'll just post the screenshot and then do the details if they are needed.
The quick of it is, when the solar destroyer (what's it called again?) jumped in at the blockade-running mission with the Hood, the game locked up for a good 20 seconds, and when it came back, I was staring at what you see in the shots and getting about 2 fps. I used all the advanced VPs, both 3.6.12 and BP ones, I have the update for AoA, and my system specs are AMD 5600+ running at ~3.2ghz, 2gb ram, ati hd4850, windows xp.
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