Problem with "Exhaust" effect on planes

[Ravement]

Hello,
I've been playing BA Annihilation for few months now and have notice something. Whenever there is a plane flying around on my screen with a exhaust effect, (I mean as if heat was radiating out of the engines) my Frames Per Second drops dramatically. From around 30-20 FPS all the way down to about 8 FPS. This happens even if there is only one plane on the screen.

Other planes without this effect don't affect my games FPS, (Like the tier 1 Arm bomber for example). So Basically, planes like the freedom fighter decrease FPS dramatically, while the thunder bomber do not. My game runs smoothly other wise.

Anyone know a reason for this? Is there anyway to remove this effect? I tied to look on the forums and the spring settings on advance, but I couldn't find the related option for it. Pleaze help, this problem becomes terrible especially during online games. Thanks.

[luckywaldo7]

In your spring folder there should be a file called lups.cfg, open it up and uncomment the part that says "Distortions = false".

[Beherith]

Press f11 while ingame, disable LUPS and Lups manager (by clicking on them to make them turn red)

[luckywaldo7]

Ah yes well that is actually easier, although my way will also disable distortions on explosions and such, so potentially there you will have a greater performance boost.

Also make sure your drivers are latest versions. There were some iterations of drivers for my card where distortions lagged like mad, but was fixed recently.

[Ravement]

Press f11 while ingame, disable LUPS and Lups manager (by clicking on them to make them turn red)

It worked! Thank you!