Recently got back on SK and was experiencing FPS drops, freezes when lots of effects were going on, and the game sometimes crashing on me. Turned all video effects off and it was a bit better but still bad. Then someone reminded me of the possibilty to improve the performance by changing some java related stuff like explained in this https://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/62691 thread.
Now my game runs really smooth, load times are 5 times shorter, no more stuttering, no screen freeze, etc.
I can imagine a lot of returning or new players might not know about that and might write the game off as unplayable due to performance issues. Is it possible for the devs to apply these by default?
The devs have been surprisingly active and this, along with running 64 bit java when applicable, is certainly worthy of their time and very necessary. The game barely runs for me and has huge graphical issues without tweaking the extra.txt file etc.
Step 1: Move to suggestions
Step 2: Bring it to their attention next tie the GMs/devs are reading this, possibly via a support ticket. They seem to take breaks or something but have again, been attentive as of late.