[quote=RoyBatty]
More like your computer can't handle it, it happens. EVE is very resource intensive.
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I find it hard to believe that this one explosion animation is exponentially more difficult to display than anything else in the entirety of both games that have run flawlessly at 60 fps up until now.
Regardless there was nothing like this issue posted about anywhere online so hopefully someone in the future will find this solution helps them as it did me.