Are you using Large Address Aware?
Whenever you have large numbers of ship units being created, or activity around ports, or throw in aircraft doing their thing in a scene.....you're going to need all the memory your computer can lend to the game in order to have these "extra" events render.
The fact you have 16 gigs of ram means nothing to the Stock game...….the Stock game will only use a maximum of less than 2gigs, UNLESS, you use a program like LAA.
The game was designed in the early 2000's. Back when Windows XP was the new OS. Maximum computer Ram was maybe 1 to 2 gigs; and flat wide screen LCD monitors were only a dream! There was no need for the developers to think the game would now be in a world where 8gig of memory is average and an 1024x768 size CRT monitor is obsolete.
Do yourself a favor and add LAA to the game execution file.....telling it to increase its capacity by using more of the available memory you have.
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The HMS Shannon vs. USS Chesapeake outside Boston Harbor June 1, 1813
USS Chesapeake Captain James Lawrence lay mortally wounded...
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