Those Damn Buoys!

[misha1967]

OK, this is just another one of those posts of mine whining about the flavor of the free ice cream, so don't take it as a criticism because it's not.

I've noticed, with my aging system, that one of the "bottlenecks" giving my FPS's a real hit in the face is when I enter an area where there are a lot of buoys, particularly the exits from Kiel.

Now, I love the added immersion of those clinking, clanging thingies without which a real port would be unable to function and I can't begin to express my admiration for Trev in adding them to the sim. That's dedication above and beyond the call of duty if you ask me.

But since the sim apparently interprets them as vessels with all of the CPU cycles that means, it does hit me right when I don't need any hits. I don't want to make do without OHII, that mod is one of the mods that makes SH5 worth loving in the first place, nor do I want to make do without the environment that makes everything so much more real (not to mention that I tried loading OHII without anything but the Base Mod and it didn't kill the buoys), but I can do without the buoys as I'm fairly good at navigating without them. Several years at sea will do that. I like them fine, and when I get enough shekels saved up to upgrade my old Phenom box I'll be putting them back in, I just don't need them enough to justify the CPU load.

So I was wondering, and this is not a request for a new mod, if there was a way of just killing off the buoys and keeping everything else in the enviro package?