Atrocious frame-rates in "Boston"

[Hans_Lemurson]

I don't think this is a new issue, but I wasn't able to easily find a thread about this.

Whenever I port to Boston, I suffer from an atrociously bad frame-rate until I manage to walk away from the buildings, at which point things normalize again. "Atrociously bad" = ~0.5 FPS if I'm lucky.

In the wilds, I suffer no such problems, although after building a few drying frames at my encampment I would periodically experience similar drops in frame rate when returning from foraging.

My computer is a laptop with an Intel GMA 965 chipset for its graphics card. I know that there are some problems with this graphics card, but it hasn't caused any crashes, just atrociously bad frame-rates when in Boston, or possibly when around any large group of buildings.

Besides "buy a new computer", is there anything I can do to ameliorate the problem?

[staxjax]

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[Hans_Lemurson]

Thanks, I'll check those out.

My problem seems only to be with concentrations of buildings (clears up immediately when they are out of view), but I'll take anything that can help.

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Using Chiprel's LowGFX mod resulted in an across-the-board framerate increase, enough to make visiting Boston tolerable (don't have to wait 2 seconds to see the response to each action). It's a little choppy in the town, but once the central buildings leave view, then it's really quite smooth.

[Hans_Lemurson]

As of the JOGL update, the game is now ONLY playable with the LowGFX mod, and I once again have problems in Boston (although only in some areas).

Without the reduced resolution textures, my Homestead is unplayably laggy. With the mod, I can play in my homestead and in the wilderness, but have problems when the post-office and a few other buildings are in view.