Mod to remove the crew?

[Heretic]

I experimented with disabling the crew scripts in the control room to see if that improved the frame rates. It didn't have a noticable effect. The frame rates are the same with the two crewmen on the bridge or at the hydroplanes station, so it doesn't appear the number of crewmen is playing a very large role either. It could be the Control Room is just the most complex 3D environment in the game and doing all the rendering and lighting effects and whatnot are what drops the fps. The only thing I found that effected fps was closing the fore and aft hatches.