1) Fps dropping from 50-60 to 10-20 when only two capital ships are present in a fight.
2) 32GB
3) Win 7 SP1
4) 1080p
5) 1080p
6) windowed
7) 60fps 98% idle
usually, sometimes the AI will have mega fleet battles with 10+ fleets showing up and that can get a little choppy until I move away
9) I have it set to monitor per thread, no thread has gone over 75% usage
10) only other programs I have running alongside starsector is chrome and discord
11) there is only one GPU, its a custom built computer, I don't even have the option of it not using it.
I have already followed the FAQ as I said in my OP and given my game 6GB of ram and disabled the known causes in graphicslib. My drivers are up to date, I've restarted the computer multiple times, I don't have recording software, I have only one graphics card, and the game runs on the primary monitor.
I've tried looking around at other threads, by no means have I seen them all, but none of the solutions were valid (the person used the wrong gpu, not enough ram, etc)