i too am also experience unplayable game due to lag and fps drops from 60-70 fps down to 5 fps , , game was not to bad before last patch , now i may aswell just click and fire and hope for the best as no point in aiming , i am also seeing the guns fire coming from a ship lengths ahead of were i can visually see the ship that fired, and no its not my rig like so many times wg blame things on ..if it was wouldnt most other games suffer the same issues , wot is fine for me , but i am bored of it..
cpu...... amd fx 8350 8 core 4.0ghz
cpu .....asus gtx 650ti boost edition
ram ... 8 gb corsair 1600mhz
op win 7 on corsair 60 gb ssd
game located on ocz 120 gb ssd
internet 240 mb download, up to 40 gb upload