Well guys, i have to say, spiral knights already have really low requisites for the current games, and you still can enable compatibility mod and reduce graphics so that old computers can run it.

I think it would be very frustrating for the devs if they put so much effort to make a beautiful game and people would just disable all effects.

I must admit, however, that this kind of feature comes in most games nowadays, and since some people really need it:

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having either a "high" or "low" option is stupid because its either lag or ugly, +1

The minimum required hardware to run Potato Knights was released over a decade ago. I'm not sure OOO should focus their attention to a group of players whose numbers will only grow smaller with time.
Sorry, I'm a jerk.

"The minimum required hardware to run Potato Knights was released over a decade ago. I'm not sure OOO should focus their attention to a group of players whose numbers will only grow smaller with time."

"The minimum required hardware to run Potato Knights was released over a decade ago."

"The minimum required hardware"

"The minimum"

"minimum"

I personally got a brand new CPU in 2012 that could run twice the required hardware Spiral Knights takes, and yet SK still gives me 16 FPS to this day (or at least fraps says I get 16 FPS).

I can run League of Legends or TF2 or Dota or CS:GO perfectly fine, but Spiral Knights is absolutely horrid and it really comes down to the fact that the particle effects use way too much memory to make. Just having a few little snowflakes here and there that many people don't even notice isn't something that should be forced on people just because why the hell not. Most games that I play (and I play quite a few) allow for particle effects to be disabled, and I can run them perfectly fine at a solid 60 FPS. Just because some people can handle it, doesn't mean the vast majority of players can. In any given LD game, I can see at least 3-4 people complain about lag on things like ice maps, and I've seen many-a players fall down yelling "LAG" in a freeze arena. I've also seen quite a few new players completely turned off from the game simply because they couldn't handle the immense lag in many areas, causing them to waste their sparks.

If the bare minimum is what we need, then at the very least, access to the bare minimum is what we should get.

Never got why this isn't automatically done when you're running in compatibility mode.

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Many other games have the option to set the graphics quality as low as possible to maximize performance speed. I for one wouldn't mind simpler, flat textures, a lack of cosmetic particle effects, and more low-polygonal models, if it meant I could get more consistency in performance in areas that shouldn't be graphics intensive (IMF, Avenue, and Mines come immediately to mind)

So you want to be a bunch of quarks, is that it? PARTICLES ARE IMPORTANT, BRO

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This doesn't really affect me because the game is playable, but I know people who have a very hard time with lag because their computers are much weaker than mine.
Even though I have an acceptable machine for running games on (Dell Inspiron 5520 with a 10 GB RAM upgrade and a 1920x1080 32" TV screen) (the graphics card isn't the best (it's like a $50 one I think)), I still get pretty lame framerate, like Dibs does. The framerate drops a bit when I'm in freeze-themed levels due to the snow, and it drops to like 5 fps while I'm in the Core (D29).

I always found the game to be poorly optimized, just like Minecraft. My computer can only run MC at like 30 fps. Good ol' Java...

As someone who has lagged out in these areas in the past, I wholeheartedly agree here. I definitely have the minimum requirements and it still sometimes causes a framedrop.