I noticed the Blast Processing patch actually. There was a slight increase in random half-tile teleporting that always seems to happen when next to Shadow Fire, but in exchange I could run graphics on High and render effects with far better performance than my previous personal best of 1.5 minutes per frame.

But I wouldn't mind some lower levels of graphics. Actually... I would prefer some levels of graphics between low and medium (and by extension, between medium and high). For example, the main reason I suffer through a bit more lag than usual is because I like the lighting effects from (destroyable) torches and to make my Quicksilver Mail shiny. However in FSC, any graphics higher than low causes Shadow Fire to go CRAZY and lag me so much.

I play on my laptop just fine. This is unessecary, but not harmful. +0.

Remove shading? Color? Extra particles from ice, fire, shock, poison, etc? Where do we make cuts to make this happen?

So you did everything here?

Vsync has one of the smallest impacts on lag out of all the options.

I have 4 star gear, cobalt and wolver ones, specilazed swords for all tipes of dmg and big amout of ce. And guess what? I cant run even though depth 1 Jelly palace. I'm dead before I see enemies. This is laggs.
I have all graphics on low, turned on capability mode in advanced settings(without it game lagging even harder and there is no textures for mobs) and I still lagging like idk what when mobs spawning/bombs exploding/some players in party.

Come on!

Move closer to the USA; this heat wave affecting the servers causing you lag SHOULD be the last thing you should be worrying about.

VSynch can cut your framerate notably. Keyword can. The odds of it doing that are about as low as the odds of getting image tearing from not having it turned on.

If you live in jersy and have a tiny 16 bit window, your computer just needs some new stuff. Best way to easialy see if it's your grapgics or your CPU is to just play some minecraft and see if it lags. If it dosen't lag hevialy on normal render distance, you have enough memory and probably need graphics, but if it does lag you need more memory and possibly also graphics.

Also, I thought toshibas weren't considered great computers. Get a Vaio, my laptop works well if you can keep it cool. DO NOT GET A GATEWAY. ESPECIALY A GATEWAY NETBOOK.

You're computer is better than mine and I dont lag that much.
You either have your computer clogged up with a ton of files or your internet is bad.

To check if it's your internet go to www.pingtest.net and www.speedtest.net and ping the Virginia server.

Post what you get.

how can i change to 16 bit color asap. windows 7 pc 32-bit 4gb

Somehow I can play the game on high graphics with very minor framerate degradation... on a laptop! Bam!
You say it's a newer laptop, but what are its specs? Does it meet the minimal requirements to run SK?

Why not add wireframe mode? That's supposed to be faster than the Blue Blur!

@Kamigod

Spiral Knights requires 32bit colors. Running it in any other color depth should make it crash. I don't know why you'd want to do this, but...

Anyway, in Windows 8 and maybe 7, to get to 16bit colors, you need to right click on a shortcut for an application, and do Properties > Compatibility > Set Color Depth to 8bit/16bit and then select 16bit. This will only switch to 16bit colors when you run the program which you right-clicked, and then revert to your previous color setting. I don't know if it works like this in Windows 7.