I have a PC that can get 20 to 35 FPS in most places in Istaria. The exception to that is towns, where in most cases FPS drops to about 10 which is still not to bad. Those cases where the FPS drops lower are in towns like New Rachival and Tazoon, where there is a lot of animation. New Rachival is by far the worst dropping my FPS to 1. There is so much animation in NR that it takes 30 mins to draw the buildings and walls and most times portal doesn't get drawn at all.
I think we need a slash command to disable the animations in towns. As I understand it the animations are client side and the server sends packets to draw them but the server is still having to send to much info, so disabling animations in towns and sending a response the server that they are off could tell server to stop sending the animation packets. You would also need a Slash Command to reenable them.
If that is not feasible another possibility would be the ability to save Graphics options with a file name so you could have more than one setup, one of those could be very low graphic setting for towns, which could be loaded before going to NR and reducing lag in that manner
Thanx
Katscratch