you can do so using a skin if you so desire it. just make a skin with empty image instead of those used by the background.

Here's a basic skin that removes the crazy backgrounds from ngrongoro->prince and crater->KKK

Just extract the zip in your <SS2>/content folder

For kane: if you want the ngorongoro->prince backgrounds back, remove the vapor* files from <content>/custom/textures/Background and it will use the defaults again.


NOTE: you need to restart SS for skins to take effect.

you can disable them easily with a skin. But as i said many times, the backgrounds are not whats causing you lag. If you run the beta client, type /dp once when you start feeling the lag, wait about 1 min, and type /dp again to get the profiler data on screen. Send a copy paste of that data to dmpfile@starsonata.com and we will see whats causing your lag.

its not forever, there are only like 7 or so >_>

The fuzzy cloud-like particle swirls are what causes horrendous lag for me. It's like, even on medium, there are millions of individual particles to keep track of, and my computer just cannot do that.

Frame Skip 3. Fixed.

Anyone else with this particular problem, try that.

unless your on wine or on an intel graphic card. The frame skip has no impact on the performance. (if you are using wine or an intel gpu, then yea frameskip would cause the logic fps to be 1-4times faster than the render fps at the cost of a bit of fps).

/dp is not supposed to create a dmp, but print profiler data to the screen, which i can then use to determine what is causing you to lag with a much higher precision.

if it crash, thats obviously not the intended use, and if you sent me the dmp, it will be fixed before long.

I dont know if you guys are talking about the same thing but when lag killer does its stuff, the stars dissapear and I have a feeling the game looks so much better without those. Is there a possiblity that I remove it?

I blame the fact that you have 3 clients open!!