Playing on win 11 and it lags really bad. any known fixes?

In the editor, after all these years, I discovered that there is a Battle Carrier named Lord General. This carrier, among other special ships, cannot be built from any starports, but have to be scripted in. I found some info on this carrier and it said that it has an extra 10000 hit points, the 4 laser turrets and that this carrier launches torpedoes. It also said that it crashes the game when it attacks which is a bug that most likely was being addressed just before the dev studio was shutdown. But so fa...

I played all the tutorials, yet on the first mission for the Malus, I had to restart several times to even get five minutes in! How am I supposed to maximize my damage to enemy fighters? Do I just suck?

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Just that. THE ONLY option that causes me major issues is that one. I took about 2 hours to narrow everything down to perfection. I play it on the HIGHEST resolution (2k) Full screened and the game looks beautiful and is stable. Very well made game for its time! The UI scaling is VERY well done as everything reads perfect! Just really satisfied for this strategy GEM that you can get for like under a buck on sale :)...